Company:Winning Moves

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Short description: American game republisher
Winning Moves USA
TypePrivately held company
IndustryBoard games, card games publishing
FoundedMay 25, 1995; 28 years ago (1995-05-25)
Founder
  • Phil E. Orbanes Sr.
  • Mike Meyers
  • Tom Kremer
  • Alex Randolph
Headquarters
Danvers, Massachusetts
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Number of locations
4
Key people
Philip C. Orbanes Jr. (president)
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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. 1.0 1.1 Arneson, Erik. "Winning Moves - Game Publisher". About.com. http://boardgames.about.com/od/companies/p/winning_moves.htm. 
  2. 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." 
  3. 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/. 
  4. All games are listed on the company website winning-moves.com

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