"Scrabble" is a board game. It is not a puzzle; it falls under
Heading 95.04 and not under sub-heading 9503.00 of the CETA. - Supreme Court
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How scrabble evolved:
When the Great Depression left architect Alfred Mosher Butts out-of-work, he decided to invent a board game. He did his market research and produced a document entitled "Study of Games". He concluded that there are three kinds of parlour games: "number games", such as dice and bingo; "move games", such as chess and checkers; and "word games", such as anagrams. He stated that "it is curious that while two of the three kinds of table games have yielded such interesting developments, the third has produced nothing better than anagrams". Thus Butts wanted to create a game that combined the vocabulary skills of crossword puzzles and anagrams, with the additional element of chance. The game was originally named Lexico, but Butts eventually decided to call the game "Criss-Cross Words". "Scrabble" which means "to grope frantically", was trademarked in 1948.
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