Crossplay Tile Distribution

Reading the shape of the bag

The distribution is the inverse of the value table: the letters worth one point are the ones you will draw constantly, and the ten-pointers appear once each per game. That is not an accident — it is what keeps the average turn scoring in the twenties rather than the sixties.

What it means for your rack

• Vowels are unavoidable. E, A, I and O together make up a large fraction of the bag, which is why vowel-heavy racks are common and why knowing the vowel dumps matters.
• The singles are events. One J, one K, one Q, one X, one Z. When you draw one, plan around it — you will not get a second chance.
• Blanks are the swing tile. Two in the whole bag. If neither has appeared by the late game, expect one to arrive and keep a rack that can use it.

Tile tracking, briefly

You do not need to track everything. Track four things: the blanks, the S tiles, the high-value singles, and the vowel-to-consonant balance of what is left. That is enough to know whether to hold for a sweep or take the points in front of you.

A note on accuracy

These counts are a documented model rather than an announced specification. Every value lives in one configuration file that the solver, the scorer and this page all read from, so if official counts are published, correcting them here corrects them everywhere.