Alfred Mosher Butts

Inventor Of Scrabble, April 13, 1899 – April 4, 1993

After working as an architect Alfred Butts decided to design a board game. He researched existing games and decided to create a game by combining elements of anagrams and crossword puzzles. After studying the front page of The New York Times, he used each letter's frequency to figure out how many o...

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Alfred Butts invented another game titled Alfreds Other Game which was published in 1985 by Selchow and Righter.
Butts was an artist and had six of his drawings collected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Scrabble is a real word that means, “to grope frantically”

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