Winning Moves

Winning Moves Games is a maker of classic card games and board games, puzzles, action games and adult party games.

History
Winning Moves Games was founded in 1995 by four game industry professionals: Tom Kremer (who discovered and licensed the Rubik's Cube from behind the "Iron Curtain"), Philip Orbanes (formerly at Parker Brothers, and the leading expert on the game Monopoly), Mike Meyers (formerly at Milton Bradley), and Alex Randolph. The company then forged a close relationship with the world's largest game company, Hasbro, Inc., owner of Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley games. As a result, many long-lived Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley games have been and continue to be made exclusively by Winning Moves Games. The company continues to primarily produce family and children's games, including both retro and original designs.

There are currently four Winning Moves companies in the world: Winning Moves France, Winning Moves Germany, Winning Moves UK, and Winning Moves USA.

Games produced by Winning Moves USA
Winning Moves USA has published a number games and puzzles throughout the years. In 2008, they produced:

Family and adult games

 * 25 Random Things About Me
 * Big Taboo
 * Box of Bunco
 * Careers
 * Cir*Kis
 * Have You Herd?
 * King Me
 * Monopoly: The Mega Edition
 * Monopoly: 1935 First Deluxe Edition
 * Monopoly: Wood Edition
 * Parcheesi: Royal Edition
 * Pass the Pigs
 * Pay Day 30th Anniversary Edition
 * Deluxe Pente
 * Power Yahtzee
 * Brain-Ade: Puzz-ominos
 * Brain-Ade: Pyramid Power
 * Risk 1959
 * Scrabble ME
 * Brain-Ade: Square Deal
 * Super Scrabble
 * Super Scrabble Deluxe
 * Take a Chance

Children's games

 * Crocodile Dentist
 * Go To The Head of The Class
 * Princess and the Pea Game
 * Uncle Wiggily

Card games

 * Clue: The Card Game
 * Deluxe Canasta Caliente
 * Flinch
 * Mille Bornes and Mille Bornes Collector's Edition
 * Monopoly: The Card Game
 * Pit and Deluxe Pit
 * Rook
 * Scattergories The Card Game
 * ''Snout!
 * Familienbande

Rubik's

 * Rubik's Cube
 * Rubik's You Can Do It w/DVD
 * Rubik's 4x4 or Revenge
 * Rubik's 5x5 or Professor
 * Rubik's Icon
 * Rubik's Key Ring
 * Rubik's JR (2x2x2)
 * Rubik's Ice Cube (2x2x2)
 * Rubik's Twist

Games produced by Winning Moves UK

 * Lexicon
 * Top Trumps
 * Showdown
 * The Clinic
 * Monopoly
 * Trivial Pursuit
 * Connect 4
 * Twister
 * Whot!
 * Yahtzee

Corporate custom games: Europe
In 2005 Winning Moves UK started producing custom games on behalf of companies in Europe. Originally their range was limited to Top Trumps; creating customized editions for companies including British Gas, Nokia and Alton Towers. In 2010, under exclusive European license from Hasbro, they increased their range to include custom editions of Monopoly. The companies who have created their own custom Monopoly include Thomas Cook, Virgin Money, Wrigley and Schroders. As of 2012, the company has also introduced custom Cluedo editions, commencing with the BBC's Sherlock and the first in a series of regionalized city editions launched with London.

Immortal Eyes Games
In 2006, Winning Moves USA began importing and creating a new line of games geared towards the hobby/"Euro" game consumer and named it Immortal Eyes Games.

While Alex Randolph was one of the "fathers of modern boardgame design", and would therefore have certainly been qualified to vet games for this market, he died in 2004, and the remaining members struggled. They released titles such as co-founder Orbanes' own design, Conquest of Pangea, which was widely considered to have more randomness than the adult strategy market tends to prefer, severe mechanical flaws, and a poorly written rulebook. They also released titles such as TransAmerica and Pecking Order, which was deemed by their target audience (hobby/"Euro" gamers) to be closer to the mainstream family market that Winning Moves serviced than the adult strategy market Immortal Eyes was aiming at. The subsequent poor sales resulted in the discontinuation of the sub-label in 2009.


 * Pecking Order
 * Conquest of Pangea
 * Terra Nova
 * Conquest of Pangea: Atlantis
 * TransAmerica
 * Vineta