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 "-". For instance, 東京(Tokyo) is played as "toukyou", 優秀(excellent) is played as "yuushuu" and ユース(youth) is played as "yuusu". Scrabble3D has a different distribution, released earlier: The "-" for long vowels and the "V" tile are optional (not in the standard set). You can use the blank as a "V" tile. One board game (Romeo) has a different distribution, released earlier: In this version, note that C has no tile as it is used almost exclusively in the digraph CH. Klingon-language sets use these 100 tiles: The letter tiles may show Klingon symbols (pIqaD), their renderings in the English alphabet,