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I found a 1926 word game that looks exactly like Scrabble

and the inventor gets virtually no credit for it

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Jul 13, 2026
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I was going through patents from July 1926 (exhilarating you should try it!) when I found this one.

Take a look at it. A square grid board. Letter tiles. Numbers printed on the consonants. The word "N…

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