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Bettering Butts: Tiles tallied for fluid fun

When Alfred Mosher Butts invented his classic wordgame in 1938, originally called Lexico, no computer was available to calculate the optimal value or score of each English letter. Instead, Mr.

“Skrafl” in Iceland, Explo’s home country

Crossword games similar to Scrabble® are played in many countries, both in English and local versions. In Iceland, Explo’s home country, “Skrafl” traces its origins to around 1990.

“We are the robots!”

With Explo you don’t need to wait for a human opponent to be ready to play a new game, or to reply to your most recent genius move. You can

Q spells trouble, but less so in Explo

Alfred Butts was thinking aesthetically when he created his crossword game. 100 tiles form a perfect 10-by-10 square, and the highest letter value – of Q and Z – was

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