15 Facts About Ravensburger

Ravensburger AG is a German game and toy company, publishing house and market leader in the European jigsaw puzzle market.

Ravensburger began publishing in 1883 with his first author contract.

Ravensburger started publishing instruction folders for craftsmen and architects, which soon acquired him a solid financial basis.

Ravensburger focused on children's games and books and specialized books for art, architecture, and hobbies, and from 1962 grew strongly.

Ravensburger started to produce jigsaw puzzle games in 1964, and in the same year opened subsidiaries in Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

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Schmid, Ravensburger produces one of the only two packs of true Tarock cards in Germany: a 54-card pack of the Bourgeois Tarot pattern with genre scenes and used for playing the game of Cego, popular in the Black Forest region.

In September 2010, Ravensburger broke Educa's record for the world's largest jigsaw puzzle of 24000 pieces.

Company's North American division, Ravensburger NA, is based in Seattle, Washington and releases approximately 25 games per year, the most successfully of which so far is Villainous, based on various Disney properties.

Ravensburger Interactive Media GmbH was a video game and software subsidiary of Ravensburger which published and distributed various games in Germany.

Ravensburger had two brands; Ravensburger Interactive, which published family-friendly games and educational software, and Fishtank Interactive, which published games for mature players.

In May 2002, Ravensburger Interactive was sold with Fishtank Interactive to JoWooD Productions.

Ravensburger Film + TV GmbH is a former motion picture and television subsidiary of Ravensburger.

In late 1998, Ravensburger sold off the unit, with the new owners rebranding the company as RTV Family Entertainment AG.

Ravensburger remained as a shareholder and continued to allow RTV to license their branding.

In 2005, Ravensburger sold all their shares in the business, and in mid-2006, the company rebranded as Your Family Entertainment AG.