Walt Mankowski on Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:22:50 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: They Win!


On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:09:05PM -0400, Adam Turoff wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:06:17PM -0400, abigail@foad.org wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:28:40PM -0400, Sollenberger, Gandalf wrote:
> > > >>    Trick question.  There is no `z' in `scrabble'.
> > > 
> > > Actually, there is one 'z' in scrabble.  It's worth 10 points.
> > 
> > Duh! There are 2 z's in Scrabble, each worth 4 points.
> > 
> > (Or are they referring to a non-Dutch version of Scrabble?)
> 
> There are no 'z' characters in the Hebrew version, but there are more 
> than two zayin's.  I forget the point value though.

Polish scrabble has *seven* z's -- 5 regular z's (1 point each), one z
with an acute accent (7 points) and one with a dot over it (5 points).
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