my @tiles = (('_') x 2,  # 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
             # 1 point
             ('E') x 12,
             ('A') x 9, ('I') x 9,
             ('O') x 8,
             ('N') x 6, ('R') x 6, ('T') x 6,
             ('L') x 4, ('S') x 4, ('U') x 4,
             # 2 points
             ('D') x 4,
             ('G') x 3,
             # 3 points
             ('B') x 2, ('C') x 2, ('M') x 2, ('P') x 2,
             # 4 points
             ('F') x 2, ('H') x 2, ('V') x 2, ('W') x 2, ('Y') x 2,
             # 5 points
             ('K'),
             # 8 points
             qw(J X),
             # 10 points
             qw(Q Z));