TIL that to decide on letter distribution, Scrabble inventor Alfred Butts studied the front page of The New York Times and did painstaking calculations of letter frequency. His basic cryptographic analysis of our language and his original tile distribution have remained valid for over 60 years.
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TIL that to decide on letter distribution, Scrabble inventor Alfred Butts studied the front page of The New York Times and did painstaking calculations of letter frequency. His basic cryptographic analysis of our language and his original tile distribution have remained valid for over 60 years.
![TIL that to decide on letter distribution, Scrabble inventor Alfred Butts studied the front page of The New York Times and did painstaking calculations of letter frequency. His basic cryptographic analysis of our language and his original tile distribution have remained valid for over 60 years.]()
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