Different languages have different points associated to them in Scrabble

Different languages have different points associated to them in Scrabble

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Fact of the day, day day day day.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, do do do do do do do do do
do do do do doo do do doo doo doo.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Hi, it's Scrabble week love An of the day worked
out yesterday how the points were attributed to the English
version of scrabble. But today's fact we look at different
languages and what are the most valuable letters in different
languages versions of scrabble?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh, okay, some languages have different letters. Correct Afrikaans. This
is an alphabetical order.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
But I'm going to do a couple okay, and then
you guys can just request languages and I'll try to
find them in this list.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'll do what my word would be corpokr.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
You got a P.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
That's that's that's three k's five.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's quite a good word. New k is worth three points? Ah?
What about? What about? There is no C? There is
no C in the Afrikaans language. And there's also there's
literally a C in Africa. It's ok. That wasn't in Afrikaans.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Oh my god, I actually had no idea of my
own language.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Disappointing. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
With a K. Years ago, I lost the language and
it was really sad I keep the accent strong.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
And the love of Billborn and.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
The half of blocking cars and Billtong.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
The ten point letter in Afrikaans scrabblers j oh j
is a ten pointer right. Ah, that's not Spanish, Spanish, Spanish, Spanish, Spanish.
The ten point letter is z boo. You put a
dud because that's a ten point letter for us as well.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, but the someone's message and may we please have
Vietnamese scrabble?

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Okay, my problem is Vietnamese. It's the same with a
couple of other languages that have come across. Vietnamese have
letters that we don't recognize. But like, so this is
actually really good because Vietnamese have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,

(02:20):
seventeen different types of the letter all the bits above it,
and there's one of each, seventeen of them, seventeen of them,
and lots of o's as well, a ton of o's
of these mostly vowels. What's their biggest? Q and V
are the ten point letters?

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Do you know someone brought a good point with the
likes of Welsh, Irish, Gaelic or the likes, you'd probably
have your consonants being worth less and the vowels more,
you know, like because how we use them.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
So and Welsh scrabble sets, the ten point letters are
letter combination. Yeah right. One tile has N G on it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, one tile has R R H on it. Yeah,
different sounds rather than letters D D.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
In Welsh there's a title with d D on it
that's only worth one point because they always have a
double d A. Is that right?

Speaker 2 (03:20):
The Welsh bs some are cs, some grow to double ds,
some even beyond that. But yeah, they're more like combinations
of sounds. Is there a Maori scrabble may? I ask?

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yes? There is? Malory scrabble sets. Are the A, I,
the O and the your each worth one point?

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Of course we love our vows either. Are the T,
the K, the N and the W two points?

Speaker 2 (03:43):
That is ten twenty points use it.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
There's no s ah, three points for H, M and P.
The most. Five points is the highest you can get
for one particular letter tile in Maori scrabble.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
I suppose maybe because in the Mud languages lists letters
and more repeat the more it's w H.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, w H is the five point fire. Yeah, any
other What about Thai? But again not only Okay, what
about French? French? Oh yeah, we can do. Okay, French
have quite a few ten point tiles. Okay, go w

(04:28):
X y Z. Why recognize?

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Because are some French words to start with y?

Speaker 1 (04:34):
You eyes? French for yogurt? Isn't it?

Speaker 2 (04:40):
No?

Speaker 1 (04:40):
What's it fringe for? I can't remember, but it's plat Okay,
because doesn't everything in French have a gender assigned to it?

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Isn't that the weird heart?

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Ye?

Speaker 1 (04:50):
So yeah, there's O K W X y Z leaders
they're all different, anybody else, no thing? That's enough. Okay,
go Japan because surely K won't be So it's a
Japanese symbol. But the English equivalent, and this is a
twelve point time twelve point tyler is in you? Oh yeah, okay,

(05:13):
it's in you. But again that's the English equivalent of
the Japanese language. That's still that tile, and the English.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Version miss with people's minds and they draw it and
you'll see their face.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
You'll be like, they've got it in you. Yeah, even
trying to figure it out. There's a klingon scrabble, cling
on the language from Star trek. A language that's anywhere
in g is the ten point throat gives this ship.
No one's listening.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh my god, sorry, let's get some water.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Other fake languages that have scrabble will be game the
thrones Ky Navy, which is the language off Avatar. Right news,
So today is there's no ray today. In fact of
the day is different languages have different points associated to
the letters and scrabble.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Fact of the day day day day day Do do
do do do do do dooop dounop joop do