The board game Scrabble was invented by Alfred Mosher Butts and was originally called Lexico. It was trademarked Scrabble in 1948.
It was invented by Albert Butts, who originally called the game 'Lexicon', then 'Alpha', then 'Criss-Cross' before finally becoming 'Scrabble'.
In 1931, Alfred Mosher Butts created a word game called Lexico. In 1938, he then renamed the game to Criss Crosswords. In 1948, he and a man named James Brunot decided to make some changes on the rules and design of the game and renamed it to Scrabble, which was also trademarked that year. In 1949, the Scrabble game was released to the public.
The original version of the board game Scrabble was created by architect James Mosher Butts as "criss cross words" in 1938. In 1948 James Brunot purchased the rights, made a few changes & changed the name to "Scrabble".In 1938, architect Alfred Mosher Butts created the game as a variation on an earlier word game he invented called Lexiko. (Wikipedia)For the source and more detailed information concerning your request, click on the related links section (Wikipedia) indicated directly below this answer section.
Scrabble was invented in Jackson Heights, New York (USA) by Alfred Mosher Butts, between 1931 and 1933. The rights were then sold to James Brunot in 1948 where it was made into the Scrabble that we see today. Brunot promised royalties to Butts for every copy sold.
Gym shoes were invented by Alfred Nasium. They were immediately called Gym Nasiums.
No, but it was developed in Newtown, Connecticut by James Brunot. It was loosely based on a prior game invention called Lexiko, invented by Alfred Butts.
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Alfred Wegener's supercontinent was called Pangaea.
Technically Scrabble Junior is a variation of Scrabble and Scrabble was invented in 1948 when it was called Criss Crosswords. Scrabble Junior which was made for younger players, was released to the public in 2003.
Alfred Wegener proposed the theory of Continental Drift in 1912. He suggested that the continents were once joined together in a single landmass called Pangaea and then slowly drifted apart over millions of years.
There is no such thing as a noble prize! It's called The Nobel prize, after the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite. Read more on: http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/