The number of stay-at-home dads has ballooned in recent years. According to a Pew Research…
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Original Paddle Ball Patent No. 1,529,600 This article originally appeared in 2019. I am running…
1903 was the year that the American toy industry came together for its first Toy…
 “Audiences are growing bored with the seemingly unending number of superheroes, spinoffs and sequels…
Author Bio: Kerry Addis is co-owner and VP of Product Development at WS Game Company.…
I was born into a game-playing family. While we spent plenty of evenings watching television,…
One of the earliest play platforms was the jump rope. It and the ball were…
I grew up in a relatively small coastal city in Virginia. Our play was unsupervised,…
Remember when we were kids and we played outside with no supervision? That’s when we…
Whether or not you believe Scrabble or Baseball are perfections, take a moment and appreciate…
 “Gutenberg’s printing press spread literature to the masses for the first time in an…
Game design is learned by doing. Get a game with a level editor or a…
Play begins in anticipation. This is true not only for play generally but also specifically…
All is not well in the land of Dungeons & Dragons. Wizards of the Coast,…
Your hands are shaking as you fumble with the small, plastic pieces, eyes scanning the…
Have you heard about a game called “Really Bad Chess”? I hadn’t either until I…
I am always impressed by the passion of new toy entrepreneurs who desperately want to…
We receive lots of donations every year at The Strong, from single items to accumulations…