Hasbro Sketches Out Pink Slips for Seattle Cranium Office

Board game titan Hasbro said it was officially "game over" yesterday for the Seattle office which created the clay-modeling, tune-humming, backwards-spelling, charades-loving board game company Cranium back in 1998. However, it wasn't until early 2008 that Hasbro decided to purchase the local award-winning game franchise for $77.5 million, adding to their growing portfolio which already included Renton's Wizards of the Coast. The R.I.-based company decided it was best to consolidate the Cranium brand and start leveraging all the bells and whistles Hasbro can provide under their own roof. Eight of the 19 employees will be moving to continue working for Hasbro, while the rest are left to mold a new job out of clay.