the two winning players of the main game played in the scrabble sprint. here, the winners of the two games competed to guess four words in the fastest time. the four words were six, seven, eight, and nine letters long. the winner of the first game played first. for each word, the player was told the number of letters in the word, and then was given a clue. when the host said to start, the clock started counting up. the player was given two letters, and selected one to place in the word. when the player wanted to guess the word, they hit a buzzer and made their guess. if correct, they moved on to the next word. if incorrect, ten seconds was added to their time, and they had to play another word of the same length. once the player guessed all four words, the clock stopped. this set the time for the second player to beat.