Scrabble

The Basics:

Scrabble, designed by Alfred Mosher Butts, was first published commercially in 1948 by James Brunot. The U.S. manufacturing rights were licensed to Selchow and Righter in 1953. Today, the Scrabble brand is owned in the U.S. and Canada by Hasbro, and elsewhere in the world by Mattel.

Why Scrabble is Part of the Games Timeline:

Scrabble is the most popular word game in the world. More than 100 million Scrabble games have been sold in 29 languages.

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More About Scrabble:

Players compete to build high-scoring words on a crossword-like board in Scrabble, which originated as Lexico and became Criss-Cross Words before eventually becoming a hit as Scrabble.

Scrabble Resources:

How to Win Scrabble
Scrabble Tile Distribution
Scrabble Two-Letter Words
Scrabble Words with No Vowels
Scrabble Words - Q Without U
Top 5 Scrabble Books

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