Like to play Scrabble? Come showcase your word building skills on Saturday, March 12, at Cannon Grange Hall, located at 25 Cannon Road in Wilton.

The evening begins at 6:00 PM, with delicious pizza, and then let the games begin!  Boards are in play until midnight.

The Scrabble party is a community event and open to all.  

During the Great Depression, an out-of-work architect named Alfred Mosher Butts decided to invent a board game. He wanted to create a game that combined the vocabulary skills of crossword puzzles and anagrams, with the additional element of chance.

The game was originally named Lexico, but Butts eventually decided to call the game "Criss-Cross Words."

In an attempt to mass-produce and sell the game, Butts and his partner, game-loving entrepreneur James Brunot, refined the rules and design of the game, and renamed it SCRABBLE. The name, which means "to grope frantically," was trademarked in 1948.

The first SCRABBLE "factory" was an abandoned schoolhouse in Dodgington, Connecticut, where Brunot and friends turned out 12 games an hour.

In 1972, Selchow and Righter purchased the trademark SCRABBLE from Brunot, thereby giving them the exclusive rights to all SCRABBLE Brand products and entertainment services in the United States and Canada.