Buffalo Games, the leading manufacturer of board games and jigsaw puzzles best-known for its million-selling party game Last Word, debuted its new version of the classic historical trivia game Chronology last week at Toy Fair 2012.
The game involves putting famous and fun events into a timeline, with the winner being the first player to create a timeline out of 10 event cards.
“This game is suited for anyone and everyone since there’s no need to know the exact year something happened," said Buffalo-based Buffalo Games president Paul Dedrick in a press statement. "You just have to make a guess as to where it falls in your timeline of cards. Every time I play I’m surprised both by a number of neat facts I didn’t know, and also by how wrong I am about when they happened!”
Chronology's own chronology begins in the late 1990s, notes the company's manager of product promotion and PR Maura Duggan.
"It originally had 400-plus cards with events, dates and history," says Duggan. "Then It was absorbed by another company and relaunched--but changed to 100 cards, then five cards, then it died."
But game enthusiast message boards and forums "showed us that people wanted the original," adds Duggan. "So we researched Chronology and found what was the most popular version, and acquired it and went back to the original version--but freshened it up with 858 cards and new content that was less dry and more fun."
So in addition to historic events like the Gettysburg Address and invention of the telephone, today's Chronology includes the Seinfeld TV series finale and Clark Kent/Superman-related history.
"The timelines become progressively more difficult--and it's conducive to repeat play," says Duggan.
"And it was a great day at work when we all tried it out!" she reports.
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