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What popular word game was created by Alfred Mosher Butts, who determined the frequency of letter tiles by counting letters on the front page of The New York Times?

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Scrabble

Butts originally called the game 'Lexiko' and then 'Criss-Cross Words' before his partner James Brunot came up with the name 'Scrabble.'

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