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Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game designer, created Scrabble (died 1993)

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Alfred Mosher Butts

American architect who invented Scrabble

Alfred Mosher Butts was an American architect, famous for inventing the board game Scrabble in 1938.
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Scrabble

Crossword-style word making board game

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns and…
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