I play my aunt about once a week. I think we are even in wins. Of course, she may say different because she wants to be the winner.
Another of my picks of my favorite words:
ae adj one (this word only in scrabble dictionary)
My aunt would never play this word, but it's in the SCRABBLE DICTIONARY. Who knows why Scrabble has to have their own dictionary, I will look that up next.
This is Alfred Mosher Butts, inventor of the Scrabble game. He passed away April 1993 at the age of 93.
His story is a good one, if you have not hear it be for.
. Alfred Mosher Butts, an out-of-work architect from Poughkeepsie, New York, decided to invent a board game.
This is what he tried first. Analyzing games, he found they fell into three categories: number games, such as dice and bingo; move games, such as chess and checkers and word games, such as anagrams. Attempting to create a game that would use both chance and skill, Butts combined features of anagrams and the crossword puzzle.
First called LEXIKO, the game was later called CRISS CROSS WORDS. To decide on letter distribution, Butts studied the front page of The New York Times and did painstaking calculations of letter frequency.
Established game manufacturers were unanimous in rejecting Butts’ invention for commercial
The story of the game’s evolution from underground craze to cultural icon is as American as, well, the SCRABBLE game.
The first four years he struggle. In 1949 he made 2400 sets, he lost on the games. But then 1950, the president of MACY's discovered the game. Within a year the game became popular across the country.
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