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   Alfred Mosher Butts (April 13, 1899 – April 4, 1993) was an American architect, famous for inventing the board game Scrabble in 1938.

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3. www.encyclopedia.com › butts-alfred-mosherButts, Alfred Mosher | Encyclopedia.com

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   Butts, Alfred Mosher ( b . 13 April 1899 in Poughkeepsie, New York ; d . 4 April 1993 in Rhinebeck, New York ), architect and inventor of the board game Scrabble. Butts was the youngest of five boys born to Allison Butts, a lawyer, and Arrie Elizabeth Mosher, a high school teacher.

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   Butts died in 1993 and did not become rich from his invention, but he was able to enjoy the worldwide popularity of Scrabble, which continues to sell millions of sets worldwide each year in 29 different languages. After being laid off from his job at an architecture firm in 1931, Alfred Mosher Butts fell on hard times.

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   On the morning of March 18, 1985, Alfred Mosher Butts, the inventor of Scrabble, boarded a private plane at the Dutchess County Airport outside of Poughkeepsie, New York, and flew to Burlington,...

6. www.latimes.com › archives › la-xpm-1993/04/10-mnAlfred Butts; Architect Created Game of Scrabble - Los ...

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   Apr 10, 1993 · Alfred Mosher Butts, an architect who created the durable board game Scrabble, which he dubbed simply “It” six decades ago, has died. He was 93. Butts died Sunday at a hospital in his...

7. www.bbc.com › culture › articleWord up: The secret story of Scrabble - BBC - Homepage

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   Sep 11, 2015 · The game also formerly known as It and Criss-Cross Words acquired its lasting moniker in 1948, but its story begins 15 years earlier, when a 32-year-old architect named Alfred Mosher Butts...

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   What happened to Alfred Mosher Butts?

   • Butts died in 1993 and did not become rich from his invention, but he was able to enjoy the worldwide popularity of Scrabble, which continues to sell millions of sets worldwide each year in 29 different languages. After being laid off from his job at an architecture firm in 1931, Alfred Mosher Butts fell on hard times.

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   When did Alfred Butts hold his other game?

   • Alfred Butts holds his other game, called “Alfred’s Other Game,” in a photo on the front page of the St. Albans Messenger on March 19, 1985. Dedication: For my father, Nick Heintz

   Three shifts at the Scrabble factory: The inventor - VTDigger

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   Why did Alfred Butts go to Vermont?

   • Alfred Butts, with his creation story for Scrabble, as an unemployed architect during the Depression, was promotional gold. The trip to Vermont was part of a deal they made with the old man. A few minutes from the airport the Vermont countryside opened up into dairy farms and frozen fields.

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   Where can I find Alfred Butts obituaries?

   • Obituaries are in the New York, Times and Newsday (both 7 Apr. 1993), and U.S. News & World Report and Time (both 19 Apr. 1993). A telephone interview with Eleanor Butts, widow of Alfred Butts’s nephew, Charles A. Butts (30 July 2000), provided personal information about Alfred Butts’s last forty years. Catherine Rife Small

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   How old was a girl when Alfred Butts came to St Albans?

   • She was 20 years old when Alfred Butts came to her station that day and took a turn in her place, trying his hand for a moment in a job he had helped to create. From the St. Albans Messenger, March 19, 1985.

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9. boardgamegeek.com › boardgamedesigner › 143Alfred Mosher Butts | Board Game Designer | BoardGameGeek

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   Alfred Mosher Butts (April 13, 1899 - April 4, 1993) was an American architect who invented the board game Scrabble in 1938. He is also posthumously credited as a designer of some Scrabble variants that were created after his death.