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Glance: Scrabble facts

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Some facts about Scrabble, the popular word game that Hasbro has the rights to in North America and Mattel owns in other countries.

-- Invented in 1938 by an out-of-work architect named Alfred Butts in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

-- Hasbro sells more than a million Scrabble board games annually in the U.S. and Canada

-- The National Scrabble Association estimates that there more than 50 million players in North America.

-- More than 100 million sets of the game have been sold in 29 different languages, according to Mattel's Web site.

-- The digital version is the ninth top-grossing app on the Apple iPhone and fifth on the newly introduced iPad.

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On the Web: www.scrabble.com