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 the letters "B", "E", "N", "O", "P", "S", and "U". The letter "C" was reduced in value to 5 and the "X" was increased to 10: Circa 1961, the hyphen was dropped from the game's name, and the original Swedish distribution of the game had been restored. Sometime later, produced under BRIO's subsidiary, Joker, the number of "T"s in the set were reduced by one and an 8-point "Z" tile was added. In 2002, under the ownership of Mattel and its brand name Scrabble, the Swedish language set tile values of the "C" and "Z" were changed, respectively, to 8