Winning Moves

Winning Moves USA
Privately held company
Industry Board games, card games publishing
Founded 1995
Founder
Headquarters Danvers, Massachusetts, U.S.
Number of locations
 4
Key people
 Philip C. Orbanes Jr. (president)
Website winning-moves.com

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 and variants like Monopoly: The Mega Edition.[1]

History

Winning Moves Games 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 1998, the company made the Monopoly Calculator and Monopoly Gift Pack, which included a book and the calculator. The following year, Winning Moves came out with Monopoly: The Card Game.[2] The company picked up the rights for the Rubik's Cube in 2000.[3] While in 2001, the company published a reproduction of Monopoly 1935 #9. Winning Moves published Monopoly: The Mega Edition in 2006.[2]

Games produced

References

  1. 1 2 3 Arneson, Erik. "Winning Moves - Game Publisher". About Boardgames. About.com. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Orbanes, Philip (2006). Monopoly: The World's Most Famous Game-- and how it Got that Way. Da Capo Press. p. 200. ISBN 0306814897. Retrieved July 5, 2015.
  3. ↑ Noonan, Erica (November 8, 2003). "Let's twist again". The Boston Globe. Globe Newspaper Company. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
  4. ↑ Stubblebine, Ray (February 13, 2007). "Photo: Mega Monopoly". Deseret News. Associated Press. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
  5. ↑ All games are listed on the company website winning-moves.com
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