Ingenious (board game) Ingenious (board game) Ingenious is the English name for Einfach Genial (Simply Ingenious), a German abstract strategy board game designed by Reiner Knizia under commission from Sophisticated Games and published in 2004 by Kosmos. Across most of Europe it is titled as the local translation of Ingenious or Simply Ingenious, the notable exception being Mensa Connections in the UK. With the exception of the game box and rule sheet (which require regional translations), identical components are used in each version of the game. There are six coloured symbols used in the game: Tiles are in the shape of two conjoined
The Landlord's Game copyright. Surviving copies of "The Landlord's Game" by Parker Brothers is considered by many the rarest of all 20th century board games. Parker Brothers pushed her game aside for Darrow's by 1936. Magie then did two interviews with copies of the original board with "The Washington Post" and "The Evening Star" to show that Darrow was not the inventor of the "Monopoly" game. In 1937, "Carnival" was published based on the 1904 version. Parker Brothers published their edition of the game in 1939. In a 2004 episode of PBS' "History Detectives" (title: "Monopoly; Japanese Internment Camp Artwork; The Lewis and