Cranium (board game) Cranium (board game) Cranium is a party game created by Whit Alexander and Richard Tait in 1998, after Richard spent a weekend playing games with another family and recognized the need for a game involving a variety of skills. Richard left his job at Microsoft, convincing his friend and co-worker Whit Alexander to join him in the creation of "Cranium". "Cranium", manufactured by Hasbro subsidiary Cranium, Inc., is billed as "The Game for Your Whole Brain". Unlike many other party games, "Cranium" includes a wide variety of activities. Giorgio Davanzo handles packaging and branding for the game, and the artwork
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