Scrabble Day is observed annually on April 13th. It celebrates the popular board game on the birthday of it's inventor, Alfred Mosher Butts. Scrabble is played with two to four players who score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15 x 15 grid.
The game is sold in 121 countries and there are 29 different language versions. Approximately 150 million sets have been sold worldwide, and sets are found in roughly one-third of American homes. In the kingdom of Scrabble, the one ‘i’d man might be ‘king’, but the lady with the ‘q’ will definitely be queen.
1984 – Scrabble became a daytime game show on NBC.
2004 – Scrabble was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame.
