In 1981 the board game Trivial Pursuit hit the market with a blazing success. The game was created in 1979 by a couple of Canadians who went to play Scrabble one night only to discover that some of the pieces were missing. They decided to create their own board game and in forty-five minutes the concept was born. Two years later it was being produced and, in a few years, it was a board game phenomena.