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
Trivial Pursuit (U.S. game show) Game" was cancelled on March 4, 1994 to make way for "Boggle" and "Shuffle", only to return on September 7 and be cancelled again on December 30, along with the entire interactive game block. However, reruns of "Trivial Pursuit: The Classic Game" continued with no interactive playbreaks until July 21, 1995. A home version of the game was released by Parker Brothers in 1993 as "Trivial Pursuit Game Show". Some question material was taken directly from the show, and the box cover featured Martindale on the slightly different set of the show's 1993 pilot (which was intended for syndication; producer