It was 1931 when American architect Alfred Butts came up with a game he called Lexiko. In a nutshell, players had to construct words using letters they had drawn at random – an idea that eventually paved the way for the hugely popular Scrabble to come into existence. It is estimated that about 150 million sets of the game have been sold since its official debut in 1938. That’s quite a lot!
Scrabble wasn’t the world’s first word game, however – people have been playing hangman for well over a century. It wasn’t the last either. The word game genre is still very much … – Source
Best word puzzle games on Android and iOS (May 2016)
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