Cranium, Inc. was a board game company in Seattle that sold various games and toys including Cranium and Whoonu. Cranium was co-founded in 1998 by the former Microsoft executives Richard Tait and Whit Alexander, who oversaw growth and operations until 2008, when it was acquired by Hasbro for $77.5 million.[1]
Origin
Richard Tait was inspired to develop a board game that everyone could win while on vacation in The Hamptons, where he easily won Pictionary and his friends easily won Scrabble.[2] He partnered with Whit Alexander, who he worked with at Microsoft before they both left in 1997 to pursue their own projects.[3]