Scrabble (game show) wild card contestants competed in semifinal matches on Monday through Thursday. The four winners advanced to the final matches that Friday, with a grand prize of $100,000 for the winner. With slight adjusting, this tournament format became the new permanent "Scrabble" format on December 29, 1986. As noted above, each episode now featured four contestants and two Crossword games worth $500 each. The champion played in the first Crossword, whose winner set a Sprint time for the second winner to beat, and the Sprint winner received $1,000 and took or retained the championship. With this format change, "Scrabble" became a
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