Scrabble have been sold worldwide and roughly one-third of American and half of British homes have a Scrabble set. There are around 4,000 Scrabble clubs around the world. The game is played by two to four players on a square board with a 15×15 grid of cells (individually known as "squares"), each of which accommodates a single letter tile. In official club and tournament games, play is between two players or, occasionally, between two teams each of which collaborates on a single rack. The board is marked with "premium" squares, which multiply the number of points awarded: eight dark red "triple-word"
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