The original publishers of the EXIT: THE BOOK series are THAMES & KOSMOS, a company formed in 2001--a partnership between a 200-year old German publisher and a Rhode Island science museum director and her son. Since then, they have produced and distributed hundreds of engaging educational toys and games for kids. The German-born EXIT: THE GAME game series, currently translated and on sale in the US, is sold in 28 countries in 20 languages and has worldwide sold over 20 million units. Translations of the German book series have sold about 275,000 copies.