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)
“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)
“In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasnt the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)