Russian
Russian-language Scrabble sets, which use Cyrillic letters, contain 104 tiles using this distribution:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: О ×10, А ×8, Е ×8, И ×5, Н ×5, Р ×5, С ×5, Т ×5, В ×4
- 2 points: Д ×4, К ×4, Л ×4, П ×4, У ×4, М ×3
- 3 points: Б ×2, Г ×2, Ь ×2, Я ×2, Ë ×1
- 4 points: Ы ×2, Й ×1
- 5 points: З ×2, Ж ×1, Х ×1, Ц ×1, Ч ×1
- 8 points: Ш ×1, Э ×1, Ю ×1
- 10 points: Ф ×1, Щ ×1, Ъ ×1
The former Russian distribution, 126 tiles until 1990, was as follows:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: О ×11, Е ×10, И ×10, Н ×6, А ×9, Р ×6, Т ×6, С ×5, В ×5
- 2 points: Д ×4, К ×4, Л ×4, М ×4, П ×4, У ×4
- 3 points: Я ×4, Б ×3, Г ×3, Ë ×3, Ь ×2
- 4 points: Ы ×2, Й ×2
- 5 points: Ж ×2, З ×2, Х ×1, Ц ×1, Ч ×1
- 8 points: Ш ×1, Э ×1, Ю ×1
- 10 points: Ф ×1, Щ ×1, Ъ ×1
Read more about this topic: Scrabble Letter Distributions
Famous quotes containing the word russian:
“That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.”
—Clifford Irving (b. 1930)
“We are all dead men on leave.”
—Eugene Leviné, Russian Jew, friend of Rosa Luxemburgs lover, Jogiches. quoted in Men in Dark Times, Rosa Luxemburg: 1871-1919, sct. 3, Hannah Arendt (1968)