| Inventor and origins | Game or Toy | Year |
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| Aborigines: originally Aboriginal hunting weapon | |
| Michael Faraday: originally for experiments with hydrogen at London's Royal Institution | |
| Milton Bradley: originally called 'The Checkered Game of Life' | |
| Morris Michtom: originally inspired by Theodore Roosevelt | |
| Lizzie Magie (not Charles Darrow): originally called 'The Landlord's Game' | |
| Richard James: from the Swedish word 'traespiral' meaning - sleek or sinuous | |
| Anthony Ernest Pratt: originally called ‘Murder’ | |
| Alfred Butts: originally called 'Lexiko' | |
| Walter Frederick Morrison: originally called the 'Pluto Platter' | |
| Ole Kirk Christiansen and son: from the Danish phrase 'leg godt', which means 'play well' | |
| George Lerner: originally called 'Make a face' | |
| N. and J. McVicker: originally designed to remove coal residue from wallpaper | |
| Edwin S. Lowe: a development of earlier dice games such as Yacht and Generala | |
| Richard Knerr and Arthur 'Spud' Melin: idea from Australian bamboo 'exercise hoops' | |
| Ruth Handler: (co-founder of Mattel) named after her daughter Barbara | |
| Arthur Granjean: originally called 'L'Ecran Magique' | |
| Erno Rubik: originally called the 'Magic Cube' | |
| Xavier Roberts: originally called 'Little Person' dolls | |
| Lonnie Johnson: originally called the 'Power Drencher' | |
| Satoshi Tajiri: originally Game Boy game called 'Pocket Monsters' | |
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