"Copyright" is a Twenty-Point Word
Milan Alley
Thursday, January 17, 2008
In the depths of the Great Depression (okay, 1931), architect Alfred Mosher Butts began designing Lexiko in response to the observed decrease in interest of word-based games. Butts meticulously analyzed the frequencies of letters in newspapers and other printed works to create the ideal letter distribution for his game. Played with a set of one hundred square, cardboard tiles, but no board, players would draw at ran...
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