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Anthony Ernest Pratt (10 August 1903 – 9 April 1994) was the inventor of the English detective-themed board game Cluedo, currently owned and marketed by American entertainment company Hasbro. In the lead-up to the 150 millionth sale of Cluedo, Waddingtons began a hunt to find out about the elusive creator of the board game. It was eventually ...
He studied existing games and found that games fell into three categories: number games, such as dice and bingo; move games, such as chess and checkers; and word games, such as anagrams. Butts was a resident of Jackson Heights , New York, and the game of Scrabble was invented there. [ 5 ]
Cluedo (/ ˈ k l uː d oʊ /), known as Clue in North America, is a murder mystery game for three to six players (depending on editions) that was devised in 1943 by British board game designer Anthony E. Pratt. The game was first manufactured by Waddingtons in the United Kingdom in 1949.
Cranium is a party board game based on Ludo. It is billed as "The Game for Your Whole Brain." Unlike many other party games, Cranium includes a wide variety of activities. Giorgio Davanzo created the packaging and brand identity for the game, and Gary Baseman, co-creator of the animated series Teacher's Pet, did the art.
Robert Angel is a Canadian-born American board game inventor who created the word guessing game Pictionary in 1985. [1] Since selling Pictionary, he has invented other board games and products. [ 2 ] Angel later became involved with non profit companies.
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns and are included in a standard dictionary or lexicon.
Captain François Mingaud (sometimes spelled Mingot, Mengaud or Minguad, [1] and often referred to simply as M. Mingaud; 4 January 1771 in Le Cailar, Nîmes, France – 23 December 1847, in Rotterdam, Netherlands [2] [3]) was an infantry officer in the French Army and a carom billiards player.
The following year Hertzano published an Official Rummikub Book, which describes three different versions of the game: American, Sabra, and International. [4] The game was first made by Lemada Light Industries Ltd, founded by Hertzano in 1978 and today is one of the most popular family games of all time. [citation needed]