Scrabble variants require scientific notation, depending on the board. Points are calculated automatically and displayed next to definitions of words as they are placed. Anadrome has a tile-earning mechanic and board editor, allowing users to create publicly available boards for Scrabble, Words with Friends, and their own custom designs, making it a superset of crossword-style games. On the game show "Scrabble Showdown", two teams play various games in order to win prizes including a vacation to anywhere in the world. Gosum is similar to Numble. Users place sequences of numbers and equations, using the four main arithmetic operators (addition, subtraction, division, multiplication)
Scrabble letter distributions of Scrabble the company also produced the first Afrikaans language version of the game under the name Krabbel, a Afrikaans translation of "Scrabble". This language set of the game had the following 100 tiles: Absent in both the original and standard set of Afrikaans are the letters "C", "Q", "X", and "Z". The infrequent "X" and "Z" may still be represented by the use of a blank, yet the letters "C" and "Q", not used in Afrikaans but only in a few loanwords, may not be. The Anglo-Saxon editions use these 101 tiles: Anglo-Saxon uses the letter "K", but it