- Scrabble is a registered trademark owned by Hasbro in America and Canada, and everywhere else in the world by J.W. Spear & Sons PLC, a subsidiary of Mattel.
- The Scrabble game board is 15 squares wide by 15 squares tall.
- Architect Alfred Mosher Butts invented the game in 1938, which he originally called “Criss-Crosswords”.
- Butts determined the letter value by meticulously counting letter usage in various publications.
- Lawyer James Brunot bought the game from Butts in 1948, made some minor gameplay changes, and renamed it ‘’Scrabble'’.
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