> Our extra characters might look very much like Latin equivalents, and amount to only about 8% of letter distribution (you will hate them playing Scrabble) Po

> Our extra characters might look very much like Latin equivalents, and amount to only about 8% of letter distribution (you will hate them playing Scrabble) Polish competitive Scrabble player here. It's not so much hate as a love-hate relationship. While it can be frustrating to be left with a vowelless rack containing a Ź in the endgame, for the most part these letters are quite desirable. Indeed, three of them (Ą, Ę, Ó) are vowels worth 5 points each, and only two of them (Ć and Ź) don't appear in any two-letter word. Even the Ź is fairly easy to get rid of, given an open enough (read: not completely blocked) board. They're nowhere near as irritating as the Q (and to a lesser extent Z) in English Scrabble.