TV Scrabble screen and stylus and the tiles would fly out of the podiums onto a giant upright Scrabble board. Contestants scored points for the word they made but only the higher scoring word remained on the board to be played off for the next go. This would be played four or five times. The second round was Speed Scrabble. Each player was given a clean board and had just one minute to formulate as many words and score as high as they can. They would take their minutes in turn. The winner of the first game would do battle with the
Scrabble letter distributions are virtually absent in Finnish. Arguably "B", "C", "F", and "G" (outside the digraph "NG") do not exist in Finnish either, but they are included as they are used for borrowed words, and "F" in some western dialects. A variant called Alfapet (originally the name of Swedish Scrabble), contains 108 tiles: French-language editions of Scrabble contain these 102 tiles: Diacritical marks are ignored. Galician-language sets use these 100 tiles: Stress accents are disregarded. This is called Letrad@s.GZ (originally Scrabble.GZ), and is not an official edition by Mattel. Arguably "J", "K", "W", and "Y" do not exist in Galician, but they