Wits & Wagers History
Dominic Crapuchettes started working on a trivia game in high school when Trivial Pursuit became popular. At the time, memorizing facts seemed, well, trivial to him. Therefore, he tried to develop a game that he called Conceptual Pursuit.
It was not until 20 years later that the final pieces of
Wits & Wagers were put into place with several years of collaboration
from Satish Pillalamarri and Nate Heasley...
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Special Thanks
We would like to thank the following people for their role in helping to write some great trivia questions for Wits & Wagers.
- Lou Kesten
- Matt Anderson
- Melanie Rigney
- Molly Hall
- Peggy Ann Brown
We would like to thank the following people for their role in helping to review and rate the trivia questions for Wits & Wagers.
- Aaron Skiles
- Adam Harris
- Amrita Lakhanpal
- Andre Williamson
- Andy Harke
- Babsi Spiegel
- Ben Baldanza
- Ben Cope
- Bill Cleary
- Bill O'Connell
- Clark King
- Cyndie Cox
- Dave Boardman
- Dave Defendini
- Dave Herman
- Dean Flynn
- Geoff Pickett
- Gillian Silver
- Ha-Jo Schuetze
- James White
- Jamie Tang
- Janet Anderson
- Jared Mudge
- Jason Strong
- Joe Colca
- Josh Cohen
- Julius Yako
- Kara Holzer
- Kari Paulson
- Katie Hope
- Kemal Karakaya
- Kevin Nesbitt
- Kristen Boardman
- Lorena Diaz
- Mario Lanza
- Mark Goadrich
- Matt Anderson
- Matt Kave
- Megan Abbruzzese
- Mike Biggica
- Nate Heasley
- Nirmala Pillalamarri
- Oksana Raptsun
- Owen Corrigan
- Paul Zeckser
- Rekha Tadoori
- Rich Nyren
- Rick Nidel
- Ritvik Purohit
- Sara Pozonsky
- Scott Rencher
- Tracey Lyon
- Victoria Lee
- Wes Donehower
We would also like to thank the hundreds of people who helped test out Wits & Wagers by playing it in its early phases and giving us feedback on how to make the game better.
And finally, we would like to thank Matt Anderson for his continual help with Wits & Wagers over the 6 months that he worked with North Star Games.