{ Image: i.123g.us/c/eapr_scrabbleday/card/127462.gif } { Image: nationalscrabbleday.com/images/ambutts.jpg } Alfred Mosher Butts photographed with Scrabble game.

Each year on National Scrabble Day April 13th recognizes a game played around the world. Originally named Lexiko and then Criss-Cross Words, Alfred Mosher Butts eventually settled on the name Scrabble. The amateur artist and unemployed architect developed the word game in the midst of the depression. Still, it wasn't until 1948, a final name change and a trademark that Butts finally began to produce the game.

National Scrabble Day commemorates the birth of Alfred Mosher Butts, born on April 13, 1899. However, research had not identified who the founder of the day was.