Why (board game) Why (board game) Why is a board game from the late 1950s created by the Milton Bradley Company based on the television show Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The game is no longer produced. There are two different releases of the game: the original 1958 release and the 1967 release, differing only in the box art. "Why" can be played by two to four players aged 12 to adult. The four gamepiece characters are each humorous allusions to detectives of popular media fiction: Sergeant Monday (Sergeant Friday), Dick Crazy (Dick Tracy), Charlie Clam (Charlie Chan), and Shylock Bones (Sherlock Holmes). The six
Trivial Pursuit made-for-television movie entitled "Breaking all the Rules: The Creation of Trivial Pursuit" aired. Treated largely as a comedy, the movie featured the music of Jimmy Buffett and portrayed the creators of the game as three beer-loving Canadians. In Spain, a version of the show called "Trivial Pursuit: Spain Plays" premiered in September 2008 on Antena 3. In 1984, Bally Sente released a "Trivial Pursuit" arcade game. Like the board game, several variants were also released. British software company Domark released a home computer version (billed as "Trivial Pursuit: The Computer Game") for multiple formats during the 1980s. This version included