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The first crossword puzzle example, attributed to Arthur Wynne, was published in The New York World in 1913. In Britain, newspaper crosswords first appeared almost exactly 100 years ago in the early 1920s. This period also saw an expansion in the field of indoor games, as so often happens within a few years of a catastrophic war when society begins to feel more relaxed, making the growth of word-based tabletop games virtually inevitable. Scrabble, an American invention of the 1930s, became popular in the UK just a few years after World War II. But it was preceded by Waddingtons’ card-based Lexicon, which opened the field up to other games besides crosswords.

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