Editor’s Note: Created by New York-based architect Alfred Mosher Butts in 1931, Scrabble is a strategy game where players earn points by forming words on a game board using lettered tiles. Selchow & Righter acquired the license to the game and began publishing it in 1952. The company produced a child-friendly version of the game in 1958; a second edition was published in 1964. Using a two-sided game board and a combination of tiles and tokens, the game for juniors taught young children the alphabet and the spelling of simple words.
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