Waddingtons




































Waddingtons
Industry Board & Card Games
Fate Acquired
Successor Hasbro
Founded 19th Century (as a printing firm) 1922 (gaming company)
Defunct 1994
Headquarters Leeds & London
Products
Monopoly
Cluedo
Waddingtons Christmas Jigsaws
Playing cards

Waddingtons was a publisher of card and board games in the United Kingdom. The company was founded by John Waddington of Leeds, England and the thespian Wilson Barrett, under the name Waddingtons Limited. The name was changed to Waddington's House of Games, then in 1905 John Waddington Limited, then Waddington Games, and finally just Waddingtons.




Contents






  • 1 Founding and history


  • 2 Games


  • 3 References


  • 4 External links





Founding and history


The company was established as a printing business, and at first 'practically all its business related to the theatre'.[1] It entered into game production in 1922, due to a boom in demand for playing cards around World War I.[2] Waddingtons subsequently sold both original games (especially tie-ins for UK television programmes) and games licensed from other publishers.


Waddingtons became the UK publisher of Parker Brothers' Monopoly, while Parker licensed Waddingtons' Cluedo.[2] In 1941, the British Directorate of Military Intelligence section 9 (MI9) had the company create a special edition of Monopoly for World War II prisoners of war held by the Germans.[3]
Hidden inside these games were maps, compasses, real money and other objects useful for escaping. They were distributed to prisoners by fake charitable organisations.[4]


Victor Watson served as its chairman from 1977 to 1993.[5][6] The company was bought by Hasbro in 1994.[7]


Beginning in 1994, Christmas-themed jigsaw puzzles were released annually until 2007, a total of thirteen puzzles. The first twelve in the series depicted a scene from a Victorian-era Christmas. The final puzzle depicted a scene from the fairy tale Cinderella. The small number of puzzles, combined with the fact that they were all limited editions, has made these puzzles highly collectable.[8] Further jigsaws have been produced since 2010 by a new company, using the same brand name.[8]



Games


Among the games published by Waddingtons were:



  • 4000 AD

  • Air Charter

  • Astron

  • Battle of the Little Big Horn

  • Bewitched

  • Bigfoot

  • Black Box

  • Blast Off!


  • Blockbusters (standard, Junior, Gold Run card game, and Super- 2nd edition game with Gold Run included)

  • Buccaneer

  • Campaign

  • Camelot

  • Careers


  • Cluedo (1949)

  • Don't Miss The Boat

  • Escape from Atlantis

  • Equals

  • Exploration

  • Formula One

  • Game of Nations


  • Go (not the Chinese game of Weiqi, but based on world travel)

  • Golfwinks

  • Key to the Kingdom

  • Keyword

  • Kimbo

  • Lexicon

  • Lose Your Shirt

  • Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs


  • Make-Shift (1980)

  • Milestones

  • Monopoly


  • Mine a Million (rebranded as The Business Game)

  • Purple People Eater

  • Railroader

  • Ratrace

  • Risk

  • Safari Round Up

  • Scoop!

  • Sorry!

  • Speculate (Share Trading game)

  • Spy Ring

  • Subbuteo


  • Tens (variation of Triominoes)

  • The Vampire Game

  • Top Trumps

  • Totopoly

  • Ulcers

  • Whot!

  • Twelve days of Christmas Super Delux Double sides Puzzle



References





  1. ^ David Thornton, Leeds: A Historical Dictionary of People, Places and Events (Huddersfield: Northern Heritage Publications, 2013), s.v. WADDINGTONS.


  2. ^ ab Brown, Jason M. (November 2006). "The Tabletop Trio". Knucklebones. Jones Publishing..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ Brian McMahon (November 29, 2007). "How board game helped free POWs". Mental Floss magazine. Retrieved 2007-12-07.


  4. ^ Martin Hickes (January 8, 2013). "How Monopoly boards got second world war prisoners out of jail free". The Guardian.


  5. ^ 'Obituary: Master of Monopoly who twice trounced Maxwell', Financial Times, 28 February/1 March 2015, p. 11


  6. ^ Death of Mr Monopoly, Yorkshire businessman Victor Watson, at 86, The Yorkshire Post, 26 February 2015


  7. ^ Tunbridge Wells Borough Council


  8. ^ ab "Waddington's Limited Edition Christmas Puzzles".




External links




  • Waddingtons Games at BoardGameGeek

  • Waddingtons Playing Cards - a Brief history

  • Waddingtons Board Game Archive









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