VTDigger runs on reader support. Help us reach our goal by Dec. 31. Alfred Butts visits Spartan Industries, where Scrabble tiles were manufactured, in Fairfax in 1985. Photo courtesy of Lela Butts For ...

But why April 13 is the National Scrabble Day? This date is chosen to honor the birthday of Alfred Mosher Butts, the inventor of Scrabble April 13 marks National Scrabble Day, a day dedicated to ...

1. When Butts, who was an out-of-work architect, invented the game around 1938, he called it first Lexico then Criss Cross Words. 2. The name of Scrabble was given to it by James Brunot who was an ...

Word games have a huge fanbase, and those who play this ‘mind game’, especially professionally, are a dedicated bunch. One of the most popular word games is, of course, scrabble, thanks to its ...