The Story of Monopoly, Sllly Putty, Bingo, Twister, Frissbee, Scrabble, Etcetera (2013)
“One day it was a mildly popular “highbrow” pastime. Then suddenly it turned into a national craze which has yet to die down.
Like Monopoly, Scrabble is a product of the Depression, but the word game had to wait until 1952 to be recognized as the classic it is. And whereas Monopoly creator Charles B. Darrow came up with his game as a way for people to forget their troubles, the inventor of Scrabble deliberately set out to make a game that would save his family from poverty.
The year was ...1931. Alfred Mosher Butts, a rather scholarly-looking architect, was out of work. He and his wife, Nina, were having trouble making ends meet.
“There I was, out of a job, needing something to do,” said Butts. “I happened to be a games buff, and I got the notion that I could invent a successful game. Nothing else occupied my time, so I decided to give it a whirl.”
After giving considerable thought to the project, Butts came to the conclusion that there were just three basic varieties of board games: games with numbers, which he considered to include dice and cards; games in which players moved men around the board, like chess and checkers; and word games like anagrams, in which the letters of familiar words are scrambled, or cryptograms, in which the player must decipher messages written in code.MoreLess
Like Monopoly, Scrabble is a product of the Depression, but the word game had to wait until 1952 to be recognized as the classic it is. And whereas Monopoly creator Charles B. Darrow came up with his game as a way for people to forget their troubles, the inventor of Scrabble deliberately set out to make a game that would save his family from poverty.
The year was ...1931. Alfred Mosher Butts, a rather scholarly-looking architect, was out of work. He and his wife, Nina, were having trouble making ends meet.
“There I was, out of a job, needing something to do,” said Butts. “I happened to be a games buff, and I got the notion that I could invent a successful game. Nothing else occupied my time, so I decided to give it a whirl.”
After giving considerable thought to the project, Butts came to the conclusion that there were just three basic varieties of board games: games with numbers, which he considered to include dice and cards; games in which players moved men around the board, like chess and checkers; and word games like anagrams, in which the letters of familiar words are scrambled, or cryptograms, in which the player must decipher messages written in code.MoreLess
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