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Trivial Pursuit - Board Games Which Touched the Lives of 100s of Millions
by Lance Winslow
Playing board games can keep the family together, and they say that the family that plays together, stays together. I never really understood that, until I was in junior high, and four or five houses down from us was a Mormon family. One day a week they would have family night, and they would play board games, and everyone had to be present, and there were no exceptions! This was the night that they would stick together, as a family. Occasionally, they would invite me, and sometimes my sister over to their family night, and we would participate in whatever they were doing.
This was quite fun, and I was amazed at how good their family was playing these board games. In fact, I was amazed at the ability they had in remembering specific facts, when playing Trivial Pursuit. Trivial Pursuit is one of those games which has been translated into 100s of languages. By 1984 they had sold something like 25 million of these games. In fact, I'm sure you've played Trivial Pursuit. Just like I'm sure you've played Monopoly, Scrabble, Yahtzee, checkers, and perhaps even chess.
The inventor of this game, Chris Haney, has passed on, he died in 2010. If you'd like to learn more about him there was a great article on June 2, 2010 in the Wall Street Journal. He was a great man who touched the lives of so many. My question is who will invent the next most famous game, maybe you can think of some type of board game that people will love to play for hours on end - a game that makes you think, that challenges your memory, and that enhances your brain.
Today, people play video games, which helps their reflexes, and quick decision-making skills, but far too many people watch way too much TV, and they spend too much time on the Internet. They no longer remember things like phone numbers, because their smart phone has all the phone numbers they've ever called programmed inside. And just like the calculator replaced the slide rule, and mathematics students no longer had to memorize things, or understand the basics of math, some technology tools are dummying down our population.
Chris Haney's Trivial Pursuit did just the opposite, and it is amazing that even today kids use flashcards to help them learn, using the same methodology. It would be nice in the future if we can take what Chris Haney showed us and improve upon it. Maybe someday in the future there will be such a game in the virtual world which will be just as valuable to the human race. Please consider all this.
About the Author
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes it's hard to write 20,000 articles; worldthinktank.netNote: All of Lance Winslow's articles are written by him, not by Automated Software, any Computer Program, or Artificially Intelligent Software. None of his articles are outsourced, PLR Content or written by ghost writers.
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