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No matter how you spell it, Scrabble is one of the world’s most popular boardgames. Say hello to Alfred Butts, (pictured above) the man who started it all.
In the 1930s, Queens, N.Y., architect Alfred Butts set about making a new boardgame after concluding that the most popular were numbers or dice games, chess-and-checkers-type games, and anagrams. He made a game that combined all three genres when he came out with what he called Lexiko, and then Criss-Cross Words.
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Mine too! I wear a J tile around my neck. 8 points! :D
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I’d do him - I fucking love Scrabble.
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mr butts, thank you for creating
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Alfred Butts……
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scrabble man?!?!
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hell is Wordfeud? (And did...ever have a descendant named Seymour?)
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No matter how you spell it, Scrabble is one of the world’s most popular boardgames. Say hello to Alfred Butts, (pictured...
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