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 2016, Tinderbox games under license from Mattel produced Icelandic-language sets using these 104 tiles: Earlier in 2016, to address a realized need for an improved letter ratio for the Icelandic-language, sets under the name Krafla, independent of the Scrabble brand, were produced and made available. For that year, this version was the version sanctioned by Iceland's Scrabble clubs for their tournaments. Krafla has the following 100 tiles: Before 2016, Icelandic-language sets used these 104 tiles: Originally, there was a 105-tile distribution with slightly different point values than the distribution before 2016 (and with 7 E's instead of 6): The letters