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
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