Chris Haney, the co-creator of the popular boardgame, Trivial Pursuit, died Monday at the age of 59 following a protracted illness. Haney worked as a newspaper photo editor before teaming with a sports reporter to invent Trivial Pursuit in 1979, which took the world by storm when it was released in 1982. In 1984, Time magazine called it "an American social phenomenon." The two sold the rights to Hasbro, owner of Wizards of the Coast, in 2008 for a cool $80 million.
Haney is survived by his wife, his ex-wife, and three children.
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