Alfapet was the original Swedish name for the popular word game Scrabble. In 1954, the Swedish board game company Alga was granted a license by J. W. Spear & Sons to market Scrabble in Sweden. For almost four decades, Alga sold the game under the name Alfapet (wordplay on alfabet, the Swedish word for "alphabet".) In the 1980s, Alga was bought by BRIO, which retained Alga as its board games division. In the early 1990s, Mattel acquired J. W. Spear & Sons and rescinded the BRIO/Alga license in order to market the game in Sweden themselves as Scrabble.
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| - Alfapet, ibland kallat nya Alfapet, är ett korsordsspel skapat och tillverkat av Alga. Det bygger på spelet Scrabble som Alga tidigare licenstillverkade med det svenska namnet Alfapet. När Mattel på 1990-talet köpte rättigheterna till Scrabble utanför Nordamerika förlorade Alga licensen till spelet, men behöll rättigheterna till namnet Alfapet. De skapade då ett nytt, liknande spel med samma namn. Det gamla Alfapet-spelet säljs i Sverige i dag av Mattel som Scrabble. (sv)
- Alfapet was the original Swedish name for the popular word game Scrabble. In 1954, the Swedish board game company Alga was granted a license by J. W. Spear & Sons to market Scrabble in Sweden. For almost four decades, Alga sold the game under the name Alfapet (wordplay on alfabet, the Swedish word for "alphabet".) In the 1980s, Alga was bought by BRIO, which retained Alga as its board games division. In the early 1990s, Mattel acquired J. W. Spear & Sons and rescinded the BRIO/Alga license in order to market the game in Sweden themselves as Scrabble. (en)
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| - Alfapet was the original Swedish name for the popular word game Scrabble. In 1954, the Swedish board game company Alga was granted a license by J. W. Spear & Sons to market Scrabble in Sweden. For almost four decades, Alga sold the game under the name Alfapet (wordplay on alfabet, the Swedish word for "alphabet".) In the 1980s, Alga was bought by BRIO, which retained Alga as its board games division. In the early 1990s, Mattel acquired J. W. Spear & Sons and rescinded the BRIO/Alga license in order to market the game in Sweden themselves as Scrabble. However, BRIO/Alga retained the right to the name Alfapet, and quickly designed and marketed a similar word game using that name. The new Alfapet word game differs in several ways from the international game of Scrabble:
* The board has 17 x 17 squares (instead of 15 x 15).
* There are more bonus squares (even quadruples) and also reduction squares.
* There are 120 tiles (instead of 100) and the values differ from the Swedish Scrabble set.
* The letter Q has a separate tile (but can only be played with a blank tile in Scrabble).
* There are several rule differences. (en)
- Alfapet, ibland kallat nya Alfapet, är ett korsordsspel skapat och tillverkat av Alga. Det bygger på spelet Scrabble som Alga tidigare licenstillverkade med det svenska namnet Alfapet. När Mattel på 1990-talet köpte rättigheterna till Scrabble utanför Nordamerika förlorade Alga licensen till spelet, men behöll rättigheterna till namnet Alfapet. De skapade då ett nytt, liknande spel med samma namn. Det gamla Alfapet-spelet säljs i Sverige i dag av Mattel som Scrabble. (sv)
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