
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 J. W. Spear & Sons to market "Scrabble" in Sweden. For almost four decades, Alga sold the game under the name "Alfapet" (wordplay on "alfabet", the Swedish word for "alphabet".) In the 1980s, Alga was bought by BRIO, which retained Alga as its board games division.
In the early 1990s, Mattel acquired J. W. Spear & Sons and rescinded the BRIO/Alga license in order to market the game in Sweden themselves as "Scrabble".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": 