AMERICAN FUN – Scrabble!

My weekend advice: take time to play a game. How about Scrabble? It was invented by Alfred Mosher Butts, an unemployed and hilariously named former architect from Poughkeepsie, New York. Butts decided to invent a board game, and based his concept on the notion that games fall into three categories: number games, move games, and word games. The game he created, first called “Lexiko” and “Cross Cross Words” before the famous Scrabble name was coined in 1948, was his attempt to combine all three categories. 60 years later the game is mostly unchanged, but Butts’ fun idea was a good one: close to two million sets are sold each year in the United States alone. How do you use the Q? Word up.