Did you know the modern pogo stick was invented in 1919 by George Hansburg ? (Gimble's a New York department store ordered wooden jumping sticks from Germany. The wood rotted on the ocean voyage and they asked George Hansburg to build a sturdier version. He created a metal design with an enclosed spring .The name "Pogo" comes from a legend about a young girl in Burma who used a hopping stick to visit a temple, though the name also ties to early German creators Max Pohlig and Ernst Gottschall ("Po" and "Go"). In 1957, George Hansburg introduced the safer two-handle version, which launched a massive global craze.)

Did you know Scrabble was officially trademarked and released under that name in 1948 by entrepreneur James Brunot ? (The original game was invented earlier in 1931 by architect Alfred Mosher Butts under the name Lexico (and later redesigned as Criss-Cross Words in 1938).)

Did you know the classic board game Mystery Date was released in 1965 Milton Bradley and was conceived by Marvin Glass and created by Henry Stan ? (Marketed primarily to young girls aged 6 to 14 it had reissues released in 1970, 1999, and 2005.)

Did you know the sport of Dodgeball dates back over 200 years to Africa ? (The games was used by tribal Africa as a survival and training exercise using rocks or putrefied matter. The concept was brought to England in the mid-19th century by Dr. James Carlisle and later transformed into a softer team game in St Mary's College.)

Did you know Rummikub was invented in the 1940s in Romania by Ephraim Hertzano, and the first handmade sets were developed in Israel during the 1950's ? (Hertzano conceived the game in Romania when card playing was illegal. He and his family handcrafted the first official sets in their backyard in Bat Yam, Israel.)