R&R Games

R&R Games has received many awards from notable board game reviewers including BoardGameGeek’s The Golden Geek, Mensa Select and The Dice Tower. Their most notable award-winning games include:

• Hanabi, Spiel Des Jahres Game of the Year Award{{cite web|url=https://www.spiel-des-jahres.de/en/games/hanabi/|title=Spiel Des Jahres|website=Spiel Des Jahres}}
• Rajas of the Ganges, Spiel of Approval Award{{cite web|url=https://thespiel.net/node/1133|title=Spiel of Approval Award|website=thespiel}}
• Time’s Up!, Mensa Select Winner{{cite web|url=https://www.mensamindgames.com/about/winning-games/|title=Mensa Select Winner|website=Mensa Mind Games}} and Golden Geek Award from BoardGameGeek{{cite web|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamehonor/8417/2009-golden-geek-best-party-board-game-nominee|title=Golden Geek Awards|website=BoardGameGeek}}
• Hide & Seek Safari Monkey II, Preferred Choice Award{{cite web|url=https://awards.creativechild.com/product/3959-hide-seek-safari-monkey-ii|title=Creative Child|website=Creative Child}}
• MiMiQ, NAPPA “Gold Award” Winner{{cite web|url=https://www.nappaawards.com/product/mimiq-by-four-esses/|title="NAAPA Gold Award Winner"|website=NAPPA Awards}} and “Laugh Out Loud” Award Winner{{cite web|url=https://www.tillywig.com/Toys-Games/MimiQ|title=Laugh Out Loud Award Winner|website=tillywig}}
• Cup-A-Cup, Oppenheim Award Platinum{{cite web|url=https://www.toyportfolio.com/single-post/2016/04/23/r-r-cupacup-game|title=Oppenheim Award Platinum|website=ToyPortfolio|date=23 April 2016 }}
• Birds, Bugs and Beans, 2004 “Seal of Approval” from The National Parenting Center{{cite web|url=https://nationalparentingcenter.com/categories_report/?period=Spring%202004&category_report=Games|title=Seal of Approval from The National Parenting Center|website=The National Parenting Center|date=23 October 2021 }}
• Slideways, “Figgie” Award for Most Innovative Game{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonfig.com/figgie-awards/|title=Figgie Award for Most Innovative Game|website=Boston Fig}}
• Mystic Paths, “Casual Game Recommended” by Casual Game Insider Report{{cite web|url=https://casualgamerevolution.com/awards/recommended|title=Casual Game Recommended by Casual Game Insider Report|website=Casual Game Revolution}}

Frank DiLorenzo grew up playing board games with his five siblings.{{cite news |last=Walker |first=Kevin |date=2003-12-12 |title=Are You Game To Learn About The Cassowary? |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune/138934032/ |newspaper=The Tampa Tribune |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=2024-01-17 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117090159/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune/138934032/ |archivedate=2024-01-17 }} After losing his job as an engineer, and then selling his business, he decided to go into board games.{{cite news |last=Walker |first=Kevin |date=2003-12-12 |title=Are You Game To Learn About The Cassowary? |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune/138934032/ |newspaper=The Tampa Tribune |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=2024-01-17 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117090159/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune/138934032/ |archivedate=2024-01-17 }} DiLorenzo began in 1996 with just a few games a year, beginning with Riddles & Riches.{{cite news |last=Witsil |first=Frank |date=2001-05-08 |title=Board game believer |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/0EBEBBA4DE627107&f=basic |newspaper=The Tampa Tribune |accessdate=2024-01-17 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20240117082801/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/0EBEBBA4DE627107&f=basic |archivedate=2024-01-17}} For the first few years of the company, DiLorenzo indicated that it operated at a loss, which slowly broke even. It wasn't until 2000, after running the company for four years, that it started turning a modest profit at 50,000 games a year.{{cite news |last=Witsil |first=Frank |date=2001-05-08 |title=Board game believer |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/0EBEBBA4DE627107&f=basic |newspaper=The Tampa Tribune |accessdate=2024-01-17 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20240117082801/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/0EBEBBA4DE627107&f=basic |archivedate=2024-01-17 }} By 2008, he was selling over 75,000 games a year.{{cite book |last=Tinsman |first=Brian |date=2008 |title=The Game Inventor's Guidebook: How to Invent and Sell Board Games, Card Games, Role-Playing Games, & Everything in Between! |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YjMVV60kty8C&pg=PA54 |location=New York |publisher=Morgan James Publishing |via=Google Books |pages=54–55 |isbn=978-1-60037-447-0 |accessdate=2024-01-17 }} Since then, people have come to rely on R&R Games for a multitude of fun, family-friendly games of superb quality.{{cite news |last=Morgenegg |first=Ryan |date=2014-10-31 |title=R&R Games Rockin Games Reviews Fall 2014 |url=https://www.deseret.com/2014/10/31/20551716/r-r-games-rockin-games-reviews-fall-2014 |newspaper=Deseret News |accessdate=2024-01-17 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117083620/https://www.deseret.com/2014/10/31/20551716/r-r-games-rockin-games-reviews-fall-2014 |archivedate=2024-01-17 }}{{cite news |last=Morgenegg |first=Ryan |date=2018-02-26 |title=Game reviews: Rajas of the Ganges, Dragon Island and In or Out are three solid gaming experiences |url=https://www.deseret.com/2018/2/26/20626281/game-reviews-rajas-of-the-ganges-dragon-island-and-in-or-out-are-three-solid-gaming-experiences |newspaper=Deseret News |accessdate=2024-01-17 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117083950/https://www.deseret.com/2018/2/26/20626281/game-reviews-rajas-of-the-ganges-dragon-island-and-in-or-out-are-three-solid-gaming-experiences |archivedate=2024-01-17 }}

DiLorenzo has said that his philosophy is two-fold. As a designer of treasure hunts, he also wanted to imbue his games with the “mystique of hidden treasure adventure and excitement.”{{Cite web|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/great-big-table-talk-r-r-games-president-and-ceo/id521770491?i=1000318998165|title=Great Big Table Talk: R&R Games President and CEO Frank DiLorenzo at Gen Con 2014|website=Apple Podcasts}} R&R Games launched their first game, Riddles & Riches,{{Cite web|url=http://dreamwithboardgames.blogspot.com/2009/07/interview-with-frank-dilorenzo.html|title=Dream With Board Games: Interview with Frank DiLorenzo}} as a treasure hunt game designed as an investigation and exploration pursuit experience. But within the game, they hid an actual treasure hunt as well.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-12-02-9812020337-story.html|title=HARDLY BORED – Chicago Tribune|website=www.chicagotribune.com|date=2 December 1998 }} Since then, many – if not all - of R&R’s games include a hidden treasure hunt within the game.{{cite web |last1=DiLorenzo |first1=Frank |title=Frank & Dan DiLorenzo – Where Did Everyone Go?? |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bEY7TVb4Ao |publisher=Double Exposure, Inc. |language=en |format=video |date=Oct 8, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/52961/r-r-games-hidden-hunt|title=R & R games Hidden Hunt? | BGG|website=BoardGameGeek}}

DiLorenzo has said{{Cite web|url=http://dreamwithboardgames.blogspot.com/2009/07/interview-with-frank-dilorenzo.html|title=Interview with Frank DiLorenzo|website=Dream With Board Games}} that one of the primary puzzles revolves around what exactly what the letters in the term "R&R" represent. In many of his interviews, he’s told his fans that treasures and clues to the meaning of R&R have been secreted throughout many of their games, which R&R calls Hidden Hunts.{{Cite web|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/great-big-table-talk-r-r-games-president-and-ceo/id521770491?i=1000318998165|title=Great Big Table Talk: R&R Games President and CEO Frank DiLorenzo at Gen Con 2014|website=Apple Podcasts}} All of these Hidden Hunts provide prizes to the people who solve them. Solving the hunts first often results in cash or other prizes and many have plenty of runner up prizes as well. Hundreds of clues have already been found. R&R states that some Hidden Hunts still remain unsolved, including what R&R stands for, and more Hunts are released each year{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/fahy-williamspublishing/docs/_2020_aroundthetable_winter_digimag|title=Around the Table Winter 2020 by Fahy-Williams Publishing - Issuu|website=issuu.com|date=28 January 2020 }}

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