Dominoes dates back to the 12th century! It was played in China during the Yuan Dynasty and was referred to as 'pupai'!
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BBC Radio’s 5Live devoted a segment to helping parents who feared their children were becoming addicted to Fortnite, either by incessantly playing it or watching others stream their fights online. The game has been mentioned in various broadcasts around the world, though they’ve mostly focused on the title’s rampant success.
Alfred Mosher Butts, a New York architect, invented the popular board game Scrabble in 1931. He wanted to create a game which involved some luck and a lot of skill (and a large vocabulary)! Butts decided on the point-values of the letters by studying the front page of the New York Times.
Chris Haney and Scoot Abbott invented Trivial Pursuit in 1979 while playing Scrabble. The two Canadian newspaper editors wanted to come up with their own game and soon, Trivial Pursuit was born! The two men needed 75,000 dollars to create a prototype of the game, and luckily, they ended up getting 34 people to invest!
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BBC Radio’s 5Live devoted a segment to helping parents who feared their children were becoming addicted to Fortnite, either by incessantly playing it or watching others stream their fights online. The game has been mentioned in various broadcasts around the world, though they’ve mostly focused on the title’s rampant success.
Alfred Mosher Butts, a New York architect, invented the popular board game Scrabble in 1931. He wanted to create a game which involved some luck and a lot of skill (and a large vocabulary)! Butts decided on the point-values of the letters by studying the front page of the New York Times.
Chris Haney and Scoot Abbott invented Trivial Pursuit in 1979 while playing Scrabble. The two Canadian newspaper editors wanted to come up with their own game and soon, Trivial Pursuit was born! The two men needed 75,000 dollars to create a prototype of the game, and luckily, they ended up getting 34 people to invest!
Before the reusable plastic boards were introduced, Battleship was played with sheets of grid paper and a writing tool! It wasn't until 1967 that the plastic boards and small plastic ships were finally used in the game. They proved so popular that the paper version was retired.
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