Alfred Mosher Butts (April 13, 1899 - April 4, 1993) was an American architect and the inventor of the board game Scrabble in 1938. Events 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the Planning and Design of buildings and participates in oversight of Building Construction An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method form device or other useful means A board game is a Game in which counters or pieces that are placed on removed from or moved across a "board" (a premarked surface usually specific to that game The verb "to scrabble" also means to scratch scramble or scrape about see Wiktionaryscrabble. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
In the early 1930s, unemployed architect Alfred Mosher Butts set out to design a board game. After studying existing games, he realized that games fell into three categories: number games like dice and bingo; move games such as chess and checkers; and word games like anagrams. For other uses see either Die or Dice (disambiguation. Dice (the Plural of Die, from Old French Bingo is a Game of chance in which randomly selected numbers are drawn and players match those numbers to those appearing on 5x5 matrices which are printed or electronically Chess is a recreational and competitive Game played between two players. Anagrams, Snatch, Snatch-words, or Grabscrab is a board-free Word game
Butts decided to create a game that utilized both chance and skill by combining elements of anagrams and crossword puzzles, a popular pastime of the 1920s. An anagram ( Greek anagramma 'letters written anew' passive participle of ana- 'again' + gramma 'letter' is a type of Word play Players would draw seven lettered tiles from a pool and then attempt to form words from their seven letters. A key to the game was Butts' analysis of the English language. Butts studied the front page of The New York Times to calculate how frequently each letter of the alphabet was used. An alphabet is a standardized set of letters basic written symbols each of which roughly represents a Phoneme, a Spoken language, either He then used each letter's frequency to determine how many of each letter he would include in the game. He included only four "S" tiles so that the ability to make words plural would not make the game too easy.
First called "Lexiko", Butts later changed the name to "Criss Cross Words" and began to look for a buyer. Lexiko was a Word game invented by Alfred Mosher Butts. It was a precursor of Scrabble. The game makers he originally contacted rejected the idea, but Butts was tenacious. Eventually, he sold the rights to entrepreneur and game-lover James Brunot. An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a company enterprise, or Venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome Brunot made a few minor adjustments to the design and renamed the game "Scrabble", a word meaning "to grope frantically" [From the Dutch "Schrabben," to scrape or scratch]
In 1948, the game was trademarked and James Brunot and his wife converted an abandoned schoolhouse in Dodgington, Connecticut, into a Scrabble factory. Connecticut ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. In 1949, the Brunots made 2,400 sets, but lost $450. The game, however, was steadily gaining popularity, helped along by orders from Macy's department store. Macy's is a chain of mid-range American Department stores Its Flagship store in Herald Square, New York City has been billed By 1952, the Brunots could no longer keep up with demand and licensed game maker Selchow and Righter to market and distribute the game. Selchow and Righter was a 19th century Bay Shore New York game manufacturer best known for the games Parcheesi and Scrabble.
One hundred million sets have been sold worldwide and between one and two million sets are sold each year in North America alone. [1]
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