Miami job as an ad copywriter. He told his employer that he was leaving the job to invest in the board game, and Poses said the man asked to fund the game in return for "a large percentage of the success of the game." Poses declined the offer. Poses said the game "worked well" in trial runs, and he decided to prepare 5,000 copies of Loaded Questions shortly after resigning. Thirteen years later, in 2009, Poses is still writing new questions. The black edition of his game comes with more than 1300 questions, and Poses said he wrote 1200 of them. Some of his question writing happens in a conventional work environment, as he sits in his office with coffee and sometimes "Bailey's to keep me into it," but he said this isn't the only place where he finds himself inspired. The questions also just happen, where if I'm in my car, you know, someone might cut me off, and I'll think, "What's the worst thing someone can do while you're driving?" and I'll write that down in my car. So the questions happen all the time. He said he finds himself especially productive during pre-production time cramming, "just like I did in high school and just like I did in college." Manufacturing and early retail history After investing $55,000 — one third of which was his parents' money — in the planning and manufacturing of the board game, Poses traveled and couchsurfed across America for 16 weeks to sell his new board game "out of (his car's) trunk" to toy store managers. The traveling board game salesman said he sold about 1,000 games throughout his 16-week trip, and one of his early buyers was Toys 'R Us. He reached a deal with some of the chain's Florida stores, ultimately resulting in the placement of 300 copies for the 1997 Christmas season. He said the board game "tested very well" for Toys 'R Us, so the chain decided to carry his game at all of its locations beginning in 1998. In 2009, one million copies of the game had been sold, and it is carried by other retailers like Target and Barnes & Noble. Other game versions Adult Loaded Questions Loaded Questions on the Go Loaded Questions Junior Loaded Questions Parenting 101 Loaded Questions Pop Culture Loaded Questions Political Party Notes Board games introduced in 1996 Culture of Miami Roll-and-move