Cranium, Inc. Cranium, Inc. Cranium, Inc. was a toy and board game developer. The company was founded in 1998 by two former Microsoft executives, Richard Tait and Whit Alexander. They co-developed the "Cranium" board game. After realizing that he always won at the game "Pictionary", but lost more than frequently at the game "Scrabble", Tait decided to make a game where everyone could win at something. Drawing inspiration from the HBDI thinking styles assessment they completed at Microsoft, Tait and Alexander aimed to create a "Whole Brain" game. Taking certain aspects of other favorite games, "Cranium" requires players to spell, draw, mold
Cranium, Inc. Inc.'s Director of Marketing had said that the game company "was giving people a chance to try their game everywhere from the grocery store, to 30,000 feet in the air on Delta Song Airplane". Cranium, Inc. also found advertisement in celebrity endorsements. On "The Oprah Winfrey Show", Julia Roberts stated that "Cranium" "was the most fun game ever" and that she and boyfriend Benjamin Bratt "could not stop playing it. Al Gore and Bill Gates, Tait and Alexander's former boss, even endorsed the game. "Cranium" is a party board game based on "Ludo". It is billed as "The Game for