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Does the game in other languages assign the same point values to letters? Is the distribution of letters the same? It seems like a different language would hav
by izzydata 7y ago
Does the game in other languages assign the same point values to letters? Is the distribution of letters the same?
It seems like a different language would have more or less frequencies of any particular letter which should influence the amount of available tiles and what they are worth.
- mFixman 7y agoThe board and (letter distribution × score) distribution are almost identical between languages. There are always a couple of letters with extremely high scores, and the winning tactic is to play ugly short words with those letters by the multipliers.
- gambiting 7y agoYes, the Polish version of scrabble doesn't have the letter X at all(since there are no Polish words which use it), and it has all of the Polish-specific letters added, with the rarity based score recalculated for Polish - for example Z is worth 1, since it's an extremely common letter in Polish: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble#/media/Plik:Polskie_scrabble_-_paths_-_ready.svg https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble#/media/Plik:Polskie_s...