Question: The game Lexiko is better known today by what name?
Answer: We know it as Scrabble. Architect Alfred Mosher Butts created the word game during the Great Depression, but originally called it Lexiko. Later, he changed the name to Criss-Cross Words, but Milton Bradley still rejected the game in 1933. Butts then took on James Brunot as a business partner, and they renamed the game Scrabble. It finally became a success after Macy’s began selling the game in the early 1950s.
