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| happy inventor Alfred Mosher Butts |
Estimates are that this game is started 30,000 times around the world every hour. More than 150 million sets of it have been sold, and it's in 29 languages. It's had a role in Seinfeld, The Simpsons, and the movie Rosemary's Baby (the one with Mia Farrow). It was inspired by the game Monopoly ~ or rather, its inventor was inspired by the success enjoyed by Monopoly's inventor. Two of the resources this inventor used to figure out the game's details were the New York Herald and, possibly, Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold-Bug. Have you figured it out yet? Here's another hint: one of the first names it went by (because there were a few) was Criss-Cross Words: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150911-word-up-the-secret-story-of-scrabble
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