SCRABBLE Scrabble is the world’s most popular word game. For its origins, we have to go back to the 1930s in the USA , when Alfred Butts, an architect, found himself out of (46) .................... . He decided that there was a (47) ................... for a board game based on words and (48) ................... to design one. Eventually he made a (49) ................... from it, in spite of the fact that his original(50) ................... was only three cents a game. 48.