Maven (Scrabble) four-ply simulation then they are not worth doing." As the board value can be evaluated with very high accuracy in Scrabble, unlike games such as Go, deeper simulations are unlikely to change the initial evaluation.) The "pre-endgame" phase works in almost the same way as the "mid-game" phase, except that it is designed to attempt to yield a good end-game situation. The "endgame" phase takes over as soon as there are no tiles left in the bag. In two-player games, this means that the players can now deduce from the initial letter distribution the exact tiles on each other's racks.
Scrabble letter distributions "V", "W" and "Y" are absent because they are only used in loanwords. Digraphs can be formed with two tiles. , an independently produced Bicolano language variant of Scrabble, uses these 102 tiles. The games uses the Abakada alphabet; hence the foreign letters of the present Filipino alphabet, "C", "F", "J", "Q", "V", "X", "Z", and even "Ñ", are absent. None of these letters can be played with a blank. Also, "N" and "G" being played in place of "NG" is not allowed. Breton-language Scrabble sets use these 100 tiles. "C", "Q", and "X" are absent because they are only