When was trivial pursuit launched

Illustration Art. Prints and Multiples. American Glass. By Kris Manty. By Sara Jordan-Heintz. By Antique Trader Staff. Feature Stories. By Paul Kennedy. By Pamela Wiggins Siegel. They'd just improved on a parlour game, informally known as the dictionary game, "that probably your grandmother played," Toyne told interviewer Valerie Pringle. He was there in support of Tina Fisher and Leonard Dodd, who were trying to make it fun to learn music theory by turning it into a board game, said Smallbridge.

A variety of newsletters you'll love, delivered straight to you. Archives How Trivial Pursuit launched the board game rush of the s Inventing a board game led to riches for two Montreal inventors, and a lot of Canadians tried to repeat their success in the years that followed. Social Sharing. A boom in board games 37 years ago This track is divided into spaces of different colours, and the centre of the board is a hexagonal "hub" space.

At the end of each spoke is a "category headquarters" space. When a player's counter lands on a square, the player answers a question according to the colour of the square, which corresponds to one of the.

Some spaces say "roll again," giving an extra roll of the die to the player. Any number of playing pieces may occupy the same space at the same time. A variant rule ends a player's turn on collecting a wedge, preventing a single knowledgeable player from running the board.

If this question is answered correctly, that player wins the game. Otherwise, the player must leave the centre of the board and try again on the next turn. Trivial Pursuit mini packs contain cards with questions in the standard six-color format but no categories.

Family Edition Official Rules. The pair were playing a game of Scrabble when they decided to invent their own game. The two friends came up with the basic concept of Trivial Pursuit within a few short hours.

However, it was not until that the board game was commercially released. Haney and Abbott had taken on two more business partners corporate lawyer Ed Werner and Chris's brother John Haney starting in and formed the Horn Abbot company. An year-old artist named Michael Wurstlin agreed to create the final artwork for Trivial Pursuit in exchange for his five shares. On November 10, , "Trivial Pursuit" was trademark registered.

That same month, 1, copies of Trivial Pursuit were first distributed in Canada. The first copies of Trivial Pursuit were sold at a loss as the manufacturing costs for the first copies came to 75 dollars per game and the game was sold to retailers for 15 dollars.

Trivial Pursuit was licensed to Selchow and Righter, a major U. The manufacturers financed what would be a successful public relations effort, and Trivial Pursuit became a household name. In , they sold a record 20 million games in the United States, and retail sales reached nearly million dollars. The rights to the game were licensed to Parker Brothers in before Hasbro bought the rights in Reportedly, the first 32 investors were able to live comfortably on the annual royalties for life.

However, Haney died at age 59 in after a long illness. He also owns a horse racing stable.