Scrabble’s inventor counted letters in newspapers, by hand. E is about 12% of English letters and gets 12 of the 100 tiles. Q is about 0.1%, so it gets one tile and 10 points.
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Letter counts. 4,402,520 letters from ten public-domain Project Gutenberg books (Alice in Wonderland, Huckleberry Finn, Frankenstein, A Tale of Two Cities, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, Pride and Prejudice, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Yellow Wallpaper, Moby-Dick), checked against Peter Norvig’s Google Books counts. History. Stefan Fatsis, Word Freak (2001).
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