In which year was the game Scrabble created?

The original version of the board game Scrabble was created by architect James Mosher Butts as "criss cross Words" in 1938. In 1948 James Brunot purchased the rights, made a few changes & changed the name to "Scrabble".
In 1938, architect Alfred Mosher Butts created the game as a variation on an earlier Word game he invented called Lexiko. (Wikipedia)

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