Alfred Mosher Butts
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Alfred Mosher Butts (April 13, 1899 - April 4, 1993) was an American architect and the inventor of the board game Scrabble in 1938.
In the early 1930s after receiving his degree from the University of Pennsylvania, unemployed architect Alfred Mosher Butts set out to design a board game. After studying existing games, he realized that games fell into three categories: number games like dice and bingo; move games such as chess and checkers; and word games like anagrams.
Butts decided to create...
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