Reading these won’t be a trivial pursuit.
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1. Original paper versions of Battleship included land areas in addition to the water.
2. Battleship was one of the first games to be made into a computer game in 1979.
3. The inventor of Boggle, Allan Turoff, was married in FAO Schwarz's dollhouse department.
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4. In order to prevent Boggle players from using a certain swear word, the letters F and K only appear once on the same cube, making it impossible for them to both be played at the same time.
5. Candy Land was at the center of one of the first disputes over domain names on the web, as in the mid-'90s candyland.com was a porn site. Hasbro successfully sued for control of the domain.
6. Candy Land was invented by a retired schoolteacher while she was recovering from polio.
7. The phrase "back to square one" might have been inspired by Chutes and Ladders.
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