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 Mattel to market Scrabble in Sweden. For almost four decades, Alga sold the game under the name Alfapet In the 1980s, Alga was bought by BRIO, which retained Alga as its board games division.
In the early 1990s, Mattel rescinded the BRIO/Alga license in order to market the game in Sweden themselves as Scrabble.
However, BRIO/Alga retained the right to the name Alfapet, and quickly designed and marketed a similar word game using that name.
The new Alfapet word game differs in several ways from the international game of Scrabble:
