Butts created a game during the Depression where lettered tiles were assigned points on a crossword puzzle-style grid. Butts came up with names for the game like CrissCross Words and Lexiko before licensing the idea to James Brunot, who called it Scrabble. Sales were fairly abysmal at first...
You may have worked that out by considering the evidence presented, the biggest clue being that these objects were the color of the sky—when viewed from a shallow angle, water acts like a mirror. But whether you got the answer to this before reading it o...