21/100 - The game of Mousetrap was inspired by the drawing of the 1920's cartoonist, Rube Goldberg and his comic strips of wild & wacky machinery.
22/100 - the original DONT BREAK THE ICE sat an unsuspecting man in a chair known as "The Iceman."
23/100 - in the 1960's there was a highly realistic election re-enactment game called Mr. President, wonder how many politicians have played this game?!
24/100 - The Missing Link arrived on the scene in 1981, following in the footsteps of its much more popular cousin "Rubiks Cube". In all, there were almost 110 billion different tile combinations, which made it infinitely easier to solve that that frustrating 3x3x3 cube we all know and love.
25/100 - Candy Land was invented in the 40's when Eleanor Abbott sought to invent past times for children recovering from polio.
26/100 - The Star Trek Game (1967) was the first Trekkie board-game produced. It's unique as its the only game made during the run of the series.
27/100 - Rook is a trick-taking card game sometimes referred to as "Christian cards or Missionary poker".
29/100 - F&K only appear once on the same cube so that you can't play both at the same time.
28/100 The inventor of Boggle, Allan Turoff, was married in FAO Schwarz's dollhouse dept.
30/100 - Chinese Checkers created in 1892 was based on the old American game Halma in Germany.
31/100 - The Settlers of Catan was supposed to be an exploration game. This idea was set aside for the base game, but it was finally re-implemented in the Catan: Explorers and Pirates Game Expansion.
32/100 - Senet is a boardgame from predynastic & ancient Egypt, dates 2 around 3100 BC. The oldest known.
33/100 - Archaeologists found the oldest Backgammon game in the 5000 year-old city of Shahr-e Sukhteh which dates to 3000BC.
34/100 - The idea for Hungry Hungry Hippos was published in 1967 but introduced in 1978. What took so long?
35/100 - The term Meeples was created in November of 2000 by Alison Hansel during a game of Carcassonne when she fused "my" and "people" to describe the wooden figures used by each player in that game.
36/100 Clue is a 1985 American mystery comedy film based on the board game of similar name. It is the FIRST FILM ADAPTATION OF A Boardgame!
37/100 - In its present form Stratego appeared in Europe before "World War I" as a game called L'attaque.
38/100 - In 1983 Steve Jackson became the youngest game designer inducted in the Origins Hall of Fame.
39/100 - Agon is the oldest known game to use a hex grid. As far as we can tell, Agon, also known as Queen's Guard, was the first one. It first appeared in the 18th century, in France, and became popular because of its simple rules & complex strategy.
40/100 - The earliest variation of today's Sorry! can be traced back to England. Sorry! was registered as a trade mark on 21 May 1929.