There's a board game to tickle everyone's fancy ... It was initially called "Lexiko" and "Criss-Cross Words." It only took ...

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the game was called "Lexiko" and then "Criss Cross Words" before "Scrabble" was trademarked in 1948. The colors of the board and tiles have changed ...

Alfred Mosher Butts invented the board game where players use lettered ... Scrabble was originally called LEXIKO and was referred to as Criss Cross Words in the 1930s and 1940s.

It was also missing a crucial component: a board. As the game evolved ... an aspiring entrepreneur who owned an early set of Criss-Cross Words, as the game was known at the time.