History of Wordigo®
Wordigo® came out in the spring of 2003, but Philip Zweig the inventor, had been working on a word game since 1986.
The seeds for Wordigo® came to Zweig as he was waiting to pick up his children from school back in December of 2001. Zewig was thinking how he could have a game with the strategy of Scrabble, and the quickness of Boogle, while being able to be played by everyone at the same time. He tried having one big board that everyone played on but finally settled on the idea of everyone having their own playing board and their own set of tiles.
Wordigo® was developed as an adult alternative to Scrabble, but his son was in 6th grade at the time Zweig was developing the game and he asked his son's teacher about playing a prototype in the classroom. The response was very encouraging and before long word had spread from teacher to teacher and from school to school and even into neighbouring school districts. By the time Wordigo® had come out on the market, the game had been play-tested by over 1,000 people, including 800 students ranging in age from 8-13.
The name came to Zweig one night at the dinner table. Zweig thought of the word "vertigo". The word was interesting, conveying the idea of frenzy, especially as time is running out and players are quickly trying to come up with a last-second word. So, thinking about how he could keep the essence of that word Zweig thought of "word" and "vertigo" and camed up with Wordigo.
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