Origin region names the specific place where a game was actually first played. Wikipedia notes "rugby football started at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England," a single school whose name the sport still carries. This dimension shows which places have given the world their own distinctive games.
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Era of Origin United States
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1. Wikipedia: Scrabble
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In 1931 in Poughkeepsie, New York, the American architect Alfred Mosher Butts created the game as a variation on an earlier word game he invented, called Lexiko.
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Why is Scrabble grouped with games like Charades and Trivial Pursuit?
Scrabble is the tree's one dedicated word game and is grouped here rather than given its own singleton category.
Party and Word Games covers social games played in a group for entertainment rather than sustained strategic depth, including Charades, Pictionary, Taboo and Trivial Pursuit. Scrabble is included as the tree's one dedicated word game, grouped here rather than given its own singleton category, since it shares the casual group setting of the other games in this family.