Alfred Mosher Butts (13 April 1899 - April 4, 1993) was an American architect, famous for inventing the Scrabble board game in 1938.
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Personal life
Alfred Mosher Butts was born in Poughkeepsie, New York on 13 April 1899 to Allison Butts and Arrie Elizabeth Mosher. His father is a lawyer and his mother is a high school teacher. Alfred attended Poughkeepsie High School and graduated in 1917. He then graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in architecture in 1924.
He is also an amateur artist, and six of his drawings were obtained by the Metropolitan Art Museum.
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Scrabble
In the early 1930s after working as an architect but now unemployed, Butts began designing board games. He studied the game and found that the game falls into three categories: game numbers like dice and bingo; move games like chess and chess; and word games like anagrams. Puntong is a resident of Jackson Heights, New York, and that's where the Scrabble game is found. To commemorate Butts's importance to game discovery, there are street signs on 35 Avenue and 81 Street in stylish Jackson Heights using letters, with their values ​​in Scrabble as subscripts.
Puntung decided to make games that take advantage of opportunities and skills by combining elements of anagrams and crosswords, a popular hobby of the 1920s. The player will draw seven tiles of letters from the pool and then attempt to form the words of their seven letters. The key to the game is Butts's analysis of English. Butts studied the front page of The New York Times to calculate how often each letter of the alphabet is used. He then uses every letter frequency to determine how many of each letter he will put into the game. He only includes four "S" tiles so the ability to make plural words will not make the game too easy.
Butts originally called the game "Lexiko", but later changed the name to "Criss Cross Words", after considering "It", and started looking for buyers. The game maker he originally contact rejected the idea, but the Butts were tenacious. Finally, he sold the rights to entrepreneur and game lover James Brunot, who made some minor adjustments to the design and renamed the game "Scrabble."
In 1948, the game was branded and James Brunot and his wife changed the abandoned school in Dodgingtown, Connecticut, into the Scrabble factory. In 1949, Brunot made 2,400 sets, but lost $ 450. The game, however, continues to gain popularity, aided by orders from Macy department stores. In 1952, Brunot could no longer comply with requests and asked licensed game makers Selchow and Righter to market and distribute the game. One hundred and fifty million sets have been sold worldwide and between one and two million sets sold annually in North America alone.
Alfred's Alfred's Other Games
Butts later found another game entitled Just Another Alfred Game; never achieved the commercial success of Scrabble.
References
External links
- Pictures of Alfred Mosher Butts
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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