Better Know a Letter - Q 

Same here, as well as "fear the Q"

*shudders*

I felt I had to go extra hard on it because, unlike some of the other tiles that beginners and veterans alike agree are subpar (U, V), that 10-point face value on the Q is so appealing to newcomers. But studies that have attempted to determine how many points each letter "should" be worth have indicated that the Q should be worth as many as 16 points for it to be a neutral-value tile!

@@wanderer15 16 points, I will use that in my scrabble games. thanks

@@wanderer1516 points seems a little crazy, but it should definitely be more than z

Fun fact , apart (strength) , (splotchy) and (borschts) are also contain 7 consonants, but I do not know is (borschts) validate

Fair point. Time/brainpower is an underrated Scrabble currency. I would add this, though: the game footage you see in these videos is from the NASPA Tournament of Champions. There were a total of 31 games played in the event. Zero bingos were played with the Q, and the Q was exchanged almost as many times (5) as it was played as part of a 40+ point play (6). Yuck.

@@wanderer15 I think V is a worse tile than Q, V is the worst scrabble tile probably

FOR REAL

Vu

@@Ktymom Yes... I'm not saying "vu" isn't a word (a volume unit meter); but I am saying that, sadly, it is not yet a valid Scrabble word - and that's all that counts in the game, I'm afraid.

​@@Ktymomvu is not a word

What's the best place to play scrabble in German? Haven't found any good website yet... :(

@@mischajay Sadly, we don't have a good platform because the person who created our word list is blocking its usage. I'm currently trying to convince him to allow it to be used on woogles.io, which is the best place to play in English. Right now there is only the Scrabble GO app (which uses the word list without permission) and a program called Scrabble 3D where after downloading it, you can log onto a server where a bunch of people (like myself) play from time to time.

In french the Q is worth 8 points because there is even more words with "qu" in them but the lack of 2 letter words is definitely a problem

QI was added in 2020 in French. We also have QAT(s), COQ(s), FAQ(s), QIN(g,s), CINQ as short Q-without-U words - as well as QUE and QUI to complete the list of threes with Q. Where the French Q shines is in long words with Us - in fact, over 20% of bingos with two Us contain a Q ! (Considering there are six Us in the French scrabble set, duplicate Us aren't that uncommon and I've already seen bingos with duplicate U's and a *blank Q* semi-regularly). Definitely an easier tile to use than the W (but it's two less points, so...)

U should of worth way more points. It's an awful vowel

Yes, depending on your method of 'balancing' the tiles to make them all equivalent value, the S could very well be negative. Given that we have the blank set to zero as our current "lower bound", it might make more sense to keep the S at one point and increase everything else to keep pace. Of course, reasonable people will disagree about the upside of balancing the tiles like this - it would reduce luck for all resources to be nearly equivalent in value, but mastering the differences in value between the letters might be part of the allure of the game for some.

Yes, the answer to that question is that the E is significantly less synergic than usual with itself - Es appear roughly 30% less often than usual as a duplicate in the subset of bingos containing one E compared to the full set of all bingos as a singleton, and that percentage is roughly evenly distributed across all other letters.

That was a broadcast I was a part of where all the players were playing on Scrabble GO, but playing together on a Zoom call. Depending on when in the game you swap out the Q, the chances won't be that much better than 50-50 for your opponent to draw it. But if you were to swap it towards the end of a game and your opponent plays a lot of tiles, it could be very likely that they'll draw it.

Q is so awful. If it's a letter then idk why sh and ch couldn't be their own letter

It would become much much stronger! (It still would need to be a high point tile as it’s rarely in bingos)

@@wanderer15 would it make it no longer the worst tile in the game or would it be still too difficult to use?

There's a website called quizlet that you can create flashcards with! I use it often to create 'decks' for my studying!

I'd give it zero. It's bad

@@zidane8452actually, after reconsidering my opinion I realized that I should give the Q -1 stars

I made a video about this topic here (EE appears a few minutes in) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZJjMVzkXDkg.html

Fluid? It's not fluid at all

Suqma

Very cool. Too bad ig is not playable though

fear the Q

Q is the worst tile, suck it Josh

no

@@Alex-vt1wh yes

Fascinating debate, fellas.

Yea no it's Q

@@zidane8452 q is fine you can do a lot with q