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 borrowed words. Marketed as L33t Tiles by the now defunct Wiremelon, LLC, editions of an English-L33tspeak variant of Scrabble contain 103 letter tiles in the following distribution: Lithuanian-language sets (known as KrisKros Klasik) use these 104 tiles: The letters "Q", "W" and "X" are absent, because they are not used in Lithuanian. Arguably "F" and "H" do not exist in Lithuanian either, but they are included as they are sometimes used for borrowed words. Lojban-language sets use these 160 tiles: The combination XO is absent as it is only used in 7 words ("binxo", "ganxo", "jerxo", "sirxo", "xogji", "xotli", and