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Alfred Mosher Butts invented Scrabble in the early 1930s.
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The game Scrabble was invented in the year 1931 by Alfred Butts.
When Alfred Mosher Butts, from Poughkeepsie, New York, lost his job as an architect, he decided to invent a board game. You can read the whole story at the related links - History of SCRABBLE.
Alfred Mosher Butts invented Scrabble in 1938. He completed the trademark process in 1948.
Poughkeepsie, New York
The board game Scrabble was invented by Alfred Mosher Butts and was originally called Lexico. It was trademarked Scrabble in 1948.
It was invented by Albert Butts, who originally called the game 'Lexicon', then 'Alpha', then 'Criss-Cross' before finally becoming 'Scrabble'.
Scrabble game board was first created in 1938 by an American architect Alfred Mosher Butts. James Brunot bought the right to manufacture the game in 1948. He also gave the game its name "Scrabble".
No, but it was developed in Newtown, Connecticut by James Brunot. It was loosely based on a prior game invention called Lexiko, invented by Alfred Butts.
Scrabble was created by Alfred Mosher Butts. Since he loved word games and was unemployed during the Great Depression, he decided to spend his time on inventing a game of chance and skill which we now know as Scrabble.