Last time, we introduced some of the most popular board games, and this one follows up.
1.Cranium
Cranium calls itself a “whole-brain” game, and is basically a combination of several other popular board games, including Charades, Pictionary, and Trivial Pursuit. Cranium created in 1998 by Whit Alexander and Richard Tait. Tait created a concept that later became Cranium after he and his wife competed in Pictionary and won, but lost in Scrabble. He wanted to play a game where all players could have a chance to shine.
2.Monopoly
The real estate board game originated in 1903 when Elizabeth Magie, who worked as a stenographer, patented the game to make extra money, but she never took credit for it. Her game known as the landlord’s game. Until recently, Charles Darrow was the inventor of Monopoly, and he actually played it first at a friend’s house.
3.Operation
The game invented in the early 1960s by John Spinello, an industrial design major. He called it “Death Valley”. The main difference between his game and today’s version is that instead of a patient, “Death Valley” features a man lost in the desert looking for water. Mel Taft, a game designer for Milton Bradley, which bought the rights to “Death Valley” from Spinello, tweaked the game by adding a surgery theme.
4.Othello
Othello is likewise the most popular board games. Its origins date back to 1880. Then, Lewis Waterman invented Othello under the name of a counterattack, using the idea of James Mollett’s The Game of Antenxation. The game as we know it today was introduced in the early 1970s by Othello, and Gogo Hasegawa wrote the book How to Win at Othello.
5. Pictionary
Pictionary was created by Rob Angel, a waiter in Seattle in the early 1980s. The idea came to him at a party when a roommate suggested a game that involved sketching random words until someone guessed it. Angel turned the concept into a board game.
