What is National Scrabble Day?
Every year on National Scrabble Day, April 13th, a game played around the world is recognized.. Alfred Mosher Butts eventually settled on the word Scrabble after being originally named Lexiko and then Criss-Cross Words. In the midst of the depression, an amateur artist and unemployed architect invented the word game. Butts didn't begin to produce the game until 1948, a final name change and a trademark. Still, it wasn't until 1948, a final name change and a trademark that Butts finally began to produce the game.
On a game board marked with a 15 x 15 grid, two to four players are allowed to score points by constructing words from individual lettered tiles.
Scrabble is a registered trademark of Hasbro, Inc., and it is available in 121 countries in 29 different language versions. Over One hundred and fifty million sets have been sold around the world, with sets being found in nearly one-third of American households.
- Scrabble became a daytime game show on NBC in 1984. Scrabble became a daytime game show on NBC
