Alfapet

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".

)[1] In the 1980s, Alga was bought by BRIO, which retained Alga as its board games division.

[2] In the early 1990s, Mattel acquired J. W. Spear & Sons and rescinded the BRIO/Alga license in order to market the game in Sweden themselves as Scrabble.

[3] However, BRIO/Alga retained the right to the name Alfapet, and quickly designed and marketed a similar word game using that name.

An edition from the 1990s. The motto Det Klassiska Korsordsspelet means "The classic crossword puzzle game"
A game of Alfapet played in Loviisa , Finland .