randomized scrabble

[tylerdurden]

I know very little about scrabble, but while out doing some christmas shopping, I saw a "super scrabble" or something similarly gimmicky-sounding that had a "quardruple word score" which I'm pretty sure isn't in "real" scrabble.

This got me thinking, how much does the configuration of the board dictate your strategy? Would there be value in a randomized board, where the bonus multipliers were scattered in different locations? How about if the letter distribution (and/or point values for each letter) were randomized?

The main point to Fischer's randomized chess is to remove the crutch of pre-planned opening books and force players to rely on "pure" skill. Does this translate into scrabble at all?