Alfapet: Razzle (2011)

Alfapet, also known as Scrabble

Alfapet, also known as Scrabble, is a popular word game that originated in the 1930s as a result of the Great Depression. The game was initially called “Lexico” and later “Criss-Cross Words” before being renamed “Scrabble” in 1948. The game was developed by Alfred Mosher Butts, an architect who sought to combine the vocabulary and anagrammatic challenges of word games with the elements of chance and strategy inherent to many board games.The game has gained popularity over the years, with its first critical decision being the frequency distribution of each letter in the game, which was based on the frequency of occurrence of each letter in English words. The game was first sold in Great Britain in 1954 and has since been translated into 22 languages. It has been estimated that over 100 million people play Scrabble worldwide.

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