What is the history of the scrabble board game?
SCRABBLE is a board game in the style of a brand invented by Pouchkeepsie, New Yorker, Alfred Mosher Butts. The game was first named Lexiko, then Criss Cross Words, before the trademark was 16 December 1948 as a scrabble crossword game. Scrabble remains a popular game around the world and more than a million scrabble games are sold every year. He analyzed all kinds of games and puzzles and discovered three main categories. He found games aimed at a number such as Bingo, moving games such as chess and games like a word like a crossword.
Butts also methodically analyzed the front page The New York Times to understand how often each letter is used. This was important for the Butts, because he wanted the game to have a random division of letters, but it would still be difficult. For example, a cut -out "with" tile letters for four because he thought the game would be too simple with no more than that.
Butts received many rejection when he went to the game companies to develop his game. Finally, an entrepreneur named James Brunot helped Butts to make his game. Brunot came up with the name Scrabble, which means "to reach or drop his hands in a frantic way". Brunnot left his family and his friends help him manually pry the letter tiles to create games; First in his living room in Dodgington, Connecticut and then in an old rented school house nearby. Brunnot lost $ 450 (USD) because it seemed that the game took a while.
When he was chairman Macy's, Jack Strauss on holiday in the early 1950s, he played Scrabble and ordered some games for his shop. The offer soon could not keep up with the demand for the game. In 1952, Brunot had a manufactured Manufacturer called Selchow and Richter, who produces Scrabble to satisfy the growing demand. Brunot sold Selchow and Richter a trademark for the game in 1972. Coco bought a trademark in 1986 And then Hasbro and his gaming division, Milton Bradley, bought the rights to Scrabble in 1989.
More than a hundred million scrabble games were sold worldwide. Scrabble is available in Spanish, French and twenty -six other languages. Deluxe, Travel, CD-Rom and Junior versions for children are also well sold. The first World Championship Scrabble took place in London in 1991 and the second in 1993 in New York. The Scrabble Championships continues to adhere to national and international level.