How many letter tiles are in a game of scrabble?

Scrabble is the most popular word game ever published. You score points in Scrabble by creating words with letter tiles on a game board. Each tile is assigned a numerical value, and as each new word is formed or each previously played word is modified, a score is recorded. At the end of the game, when all the tiles have been drawn and one player uses all his tiles, the game ends. Whoever has the highest number of points wins the game.

There are exactly 100 tiles in Scrabble, but the distribution of the tiles is not even. There are more tiles for vowels than for most of the consonants.

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Rich McConnell

There are exactly 98 "letter tiles" in Scrabble plus 2 blanks, which totals 100. Since the question asks specifically for letter tiles, I reckon the correct answer is 98. However, since 98 wasn't an answer choice I went with 100, and was awarded points for choosing the correct "wrong" answer.

Robin Heckler

Always a favorite in our family. My 99 y/o Grandmother and her sister had the deluxe edition and the Scrabble dictionary to go with it and played with any visitors all the way up until they died. They knew the dictionary well, so your word best be in it.

earlepg

I've never scrabbled, so I put the double chance to good use. My first choice was 1000 and, good thing, 100 was my followup choice.

Lawanta

My mom and I always liked a good game of Scrabble... nice memories 🥰

gracelind

never played this game but i figure 100 sounds about right.. 1000 would be too much.

jack patti go

There are 98 and two blanks Only the 98 are lettered! Another cheat question!

larrywagner

tesla alset, Great reply Tesla, and great memories.

Alan Waites

Scrabble Letter Tiles. A game of standard Scrabble rules uses one hundred (100) letter tiles. But, there will only be 98 tiles that contain letters and associated point values. There will be two (2) blank tiles without letters or point values. 100 TILES, 98 LETTER TILES. This is obviously a question the setter did not comprehend

stormejohn

Rich McConnell, Right you are.

Richard G Schwartz

Off by 1.

Paul R Hanna

kinda assumed since the question specified "letter" tiles the blanks wouldn't count. poorly worded at best....

silrem

Rich McConnell, exactly how l felt.

Kevin Dale Streets

They also have Super Scrabble, which has 196 letter tiles, and 4 blanks.

John Woods

George Oliver Prince, so did I. 😂😇😇

Fred Zeb Fudpucker

Correct answer: NONE OF THE ABOVE "How many tiles are there in a game of Scrabble? There are ninety eight (98) letter tiles + two (2) blank tiles for a total of one hundred (100) tiles in standard scrabble."