Which popular board game was originally called ‘Criss Cross Words’?
Lexiko named his project "Lexiko". The game design was rejected by games manufacturers such as Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley, but Butts was able to sell copies on his own, though not enough to recoup his development expenses. In 1938, he began work on a board game based on "Lexiko", which he called "Criss-Cross Words", which was eventually renamed "Scrabble". Lexiko Lexiko was a word game invented by Alfred Butts. It was a precursor of "Scrabble". The name comes from the Greek "lexicos", meaning of "words." "Lexiko" was played with a set of 100 square cardboard tiles, with the same letter
Criss Cross Quiz Criss Cross Quiz Criss Cross Quiz was a quiz programme that combined the game noughts and crosses with general knowledge questions and aired on the ITV network from 1957 to 1967. It was produced by Granada Television. The programme was presented by Jeremy Hawk from 1957 to 1962 and Barbara Kelly from 1963 to 1967. The series was based on an American show entitled "Tic Tac Dough" which ran from 1956 to 1959 and was revived in 1978. Additionally, a children's version of the show called "Junior Criss Cross Quiz" was produced starting in 1957 (the same year the adult