It was re-named three times until the inventor sold the rights to someone who named it after a word that is similar to 'fondle frenziedly'. Now one of the most popular of its genre world-wide, its inventor admits to studying a well known newspaper for hints to calculate the frequency of part of its main components. What is it, and who was the inventor?

zbeckabee

I believe that would be Scrabble. The game was created by architect Alfred Mosher Butts in 1938, In 1948, lawyer James Brunot, a resident of Newtown, CT, bought the rights to manufacture the game in exchange for granting Butts a royalty on every unit sold. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble Jun 01 06, 10:19 PM

peasypod

Yes, and Scrabble means 'to grope frantically', of course.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Mosher_Butts Jun 01 06, 10:24 PM

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