Do you have a million-dollar idea for a toy or game? Maybe it’s a wacky board game your friends love, a genius puzzle you made from scratch, or a never-before-seen gadget that makes playtime way more ...

If cornhole and Skee-Ball got wine-drunk and made a baby, that offspring undoubtedly would be a new game called Cork Toss. The game, created in 2018 by Sonoma resident Nico Gutierrez, is slowly but ...

Magie’s creation, The Landlord’s Game, inspired the spinoff we know today. But credit for the idea long went to someone else. By Gavin Edwards This article is part of Overlooked, a series of ...

Tom Sturdevant, inventor of the game Q-Less, chatted about his latest endeavors and his original invention. He is also a foreign service officer, Peace Corps Trainer, and filmmaker. How did the ...

Carol Pack thinks cats are pretty cute, even though she doesn’t have one. But she needed some expert advice when she wanted to invent a game based on the fuzzy pets. “We were brainstorming in class ...

As a child, Ontario-born entrepreneur, Laura Robinson (no relation to me), loved playing parlor games. Harnessing her childhood passion, Robinson has forged an entrepreneurial career path inventing ...

Until recently the Arcement family wondered how they were going to move thousands of boxes of unsold board games filling their garage. Now they’re just trying to keep up with demand. What changed?

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a new target toss game with the paper airplane at its core," said an inventor, from Gilroy, Calif., "so I invented the PARPS!. My ...

One father-son duo knows how to mix work and play. Dave Yearick and his son Rudiger Yearick of South Carolina are founders of The Good Game Company, a creator and publisher of various board games. The ...