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 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