Trivial Pursuit part of Hasbro) in 1988, after initially being turned down by the Virgin Group; in 2008 Hasbro bought the full rights, for US$80 million. , nearly 88 million games had been sold in 26 countries and 17 languages. Northern Plastics of Elroy, Wisconsin produced 30,000,000 games between 1983 and 1985. In December 1993, Trivial Pursuit was named to the "Games Hall of Fame" by "Games" magazine. An online version of "Trivial Pursuit" was launched in September 2003. The object of the game is to move around the board by correctly answering trivia questions. Questions are split into six categories, with
The Trivia Encyclopedia million lawsuit against the distributors of the board game "Trivial Pursuit", claiming that they had stolen their questions from his books. The apparent ace up his sleeve was a "Trivial Pursuit" reference to the TV character of "Philip Columbo" -- despite the first name "Philip" being an invention of Worth's. The makers of "Trivial Pursuit" did not deny that they sourced material from Worth's book. Instead, they argued that a) facts themselves are not copyrightable, and b) there was nothing improper about using Worth's book simply as one of the many sources from which the game's fact-based material originated. The