Scrabble rotating mechanisms and personalized graphics. An edition has been released (in association with the RNIB) with larger board and letters for players with impaired vision. The colours on the board are more contrasting and the font size is increased from 16 to 24 point. The tiles are in bold 48 point. An introduction to tournament "Scrabble" and its players can be found in the book "Word Freak" by Stefan Fatsis. In the process of writing, Fatsis himself progressed into a high-rated tournament player. The "Scrabble Player's Handbook", edited by Stewart Holden and written by an international group of tournament players,
Scrabble letter distributions at any time. Several online tools exist for counting tiles during friendly play. Diacritical marks (such as "é" in words borrowed from French) are ignored. English-language editions of Scrabble contain 100 letter tiles, in the following distribution: The total number of points is 187. When Alfred Butts invented the game, he initially experimented with different distributions of letters. A popular story claims that Butts created an elaborate chart by studying the front page of "The New York Times" to create his final choice of letter distributions. In 2004, Super Scrabble was launched. For international distribution outside the United States and