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
1829 (board game) luck involved is in determining the initial play order. A second version of the game known as "1829 (North)" was published by Francis Tresham in 1981 and covers railroading in Northern England and Southern Scotland. 1829 (board game) 1829 (South) is a railroad operations and share-trading board game in the "18xx" series, first published by Hartland Trefoil Ltd (UK) in 1974 from an original design by Francis Tresham, but is now out of print. "1829 (South)" is based on railroading in southern England and Wales and became the first game in the "18xx" series, with the basic game design now