Pressman Toy Corp.

Jack Pressman founded Pressman Toy Corporation in 1922, producing an enormous range of board games, puzzles, and educational toys. Pressman games are typically approachable and family-friendly, including licensed titles and original games across many categories.

Jack Pressman, who founded the company in New York in 1922; it remained a family business through several generations.

Pressman occupied the practical middle of the American games trade for a century: family board games, jigsaw puzzles, children's classics, checkers and chess sets, and licensed titles, produced at accessible prices and sold through mass retail rather than the hobby trade.

Its most commercially significant work has often been bringing other people's games to the American market — Rummikub is the clearest example, an Israeli tile game that Pressman published in the United States and turned into a long-running seller. It also produced Tetris and Bible Trivia board adaptations and a broad line of preschool and early-learning games.

The company was acquired by Goliath, the Dutch games publisher, in 2014, and the Pressman name continues within that group. Its historical output is not high-value collector material, but it is a good record of what ordinary American families actually played.