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R&R Games, Inc. is an international publisher and distributor of family entertainment products with a focus on original board games and toys. [1] [2] [3] [4] Since its formation in 1996 by Frank DiLorenzo & Edward Miller, they have published hundreds of games, and are best known for their casual, family oriented board games. [5] [6] Their bestselling games include Times Up!, Hanabi, [7] and Rajas of the Ganges.

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Award-Winning 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:

History and the Hidden Hunts

Frank DiLorenzo grew up playing board games with his five siblings. [19] After losing his job as an engineer, and then selling his business, he decided to go into board games. [20] DiLorenzo began in 1996 with just a few games a year, beginning with Riddles & Riches. [21] 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. [22] By 2008, he was selling over 75,000 games a year. [23] Since then, people have come to rely on R&R Games for a multitude of fun, family-friendly games of superb quality. [24] [25]

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.” [26] R&R Games launched their first game, Riddles & Riches, [27] 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. [28] Since then, many – if not all - of R&R’s games include a hidden treasure hunt within the game. [29] [30]

DiLorenzo has said [31] 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. [32] 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 [33]

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