Company:Winning Moves
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Short description: American game republisher
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| Type | Privately held company |
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| Industry | Board games, card games publishing |
| Founded | May 25, 1995 |
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| Headquarters | Danvers, Massachusetts , |
Number of locations | 4 |
Key people | Philip C. Orbanes Jr. (president) |
| Website | {{{1}}} |
Winning Moves Games is a maker of classic card games and board games, puzzles, action games, and adult party games. The company is known for game reproduction, republishing variants like Monopoly: The Mega Edition,[1] and for developing new games.
History
The company was founded in 1995 by four game-industry professionals: Phil E. Orbanes, Mike Meyers, Tom Kremer, and Alex Randolph.[1] Orbanes left his job at Parker Brothers to found the company.
In 1999, Winning Moves published Monopoly: The Card Game.[2] The company bought the rights for the Rubik's Cube in 2000.[3]
In 2001, the company published a reproduction of the 1935 edition of Monopoly, and Monopoly: The Mega Edition in 2006.[2]
Games Produced by Winning Moves Games USA
- 13 Dead End Drive
- Aggravation
- Big Boggle
- Canasta Caliente
- Candy Land Classic Edition
- Checkers
- Chinese Checkers
- Chutes & Ladders Classic Edition
- Clue Classic Edition
- Clue Master Detective
- Clue Suspect Card Game
- Crocodile Dentist
- Double Trouble
- Flinch
- The Game of Life Classic Edition
- Game Of The States
- Guess Who
- Hi Ho Cherry-O
- Husker Du
- Instant Insanity
- The Mermaid's Jewels: String Together A Treasure From The Sea
- Monopoly: The Card Game (1999)
- Monopoly: The Card Game (2017)
- Monopoly: The Mega Edition (2006)[2]
- No Stress Chess
- Ouija
- Parcheesi Royal Edition
- Pass The Pigs
- Pass The Pigs: Big Pigs
- Pass The Pigs Pig Party Edition
- PayDay
- Pit
- Deluxe Pit
- Pente
- Pretty Pretty Princess
- Rack-O
- Risk 1959
- Risk Europe
- Deluxe Rook
- Scattergories 30th Anniversary Edition
- Scattergories Categories
- Scattergories The Card Game
- Sorry! Classic Edition
- Super Big Boggle
- Scrabble Slam
- Scrabble To Go
- Tile Lock Scrabble
- Large Print Tile Lock Scrabble
- Snail Mail
- Trouble Classic Edition
- Trashed
- Twister Classic Edition
- Uncle Wiggily
- Classic Waterworks
- Classic Wham-O Frisbee
- Classic Wham-O Hacky Sack
- Classic Whamn-O Superball
- Words Over Easy
- Yahtzee Classic[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Arneson, Erik. "Winning Moves - Game Publisher". About.com. http://boardgames.about.com/od/companies/p/winning_moves.htm.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Orbanes, Philip (2006). Monopoly: The World's Most Famous Game-- and how it Got that Way. Da Capo Press. p. 200. ISBN 0306814897. https://archive.org/details/monopoly00phil. Retrieved July 5, 2015. "The Landlord's Game."
- ↑ Noonan, Erica (November 8, 2003). "Let's twist again". The Boston Globe (Globe Newspaper Company.). http://archive.boston.com/ae/games/articles/2003/11/08/lets_twist_again/.
- ↑ All games are listed on the company website winning-moves.com
External links
- Winning Moves official websites
- Winning Moves at BoardGameGeek
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