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
Ingenious (board game) the coloured symbols. "Einfach Genial Junior" is a simpler version of the game. It uses similar techniques of matching coloured symbols but utilises a square board instead of hexagons. "Einfach Genial: Das Kartenspiel" is a card game based on the original Einfach Genial. "Einfach Genial: Wer zu viel riskiert, verliert!" ("Simply ingenious - who risks too much, loses!") uses the same coloured symbols, but each hexagonal playing tile only has one symbol. 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