# Wrebbit > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Wrebbit > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Wrebbit.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrebbit > Source revision: 1319027649 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Discontinued Canadian puzzle-making company}} thumb|350px|Logo '''Wrebbit, Inc''' was a now-discontinued, [puzzle](/source/puzzle)-making company best known for its ''[Puzz 3D](/source/Puzz_3D)'' [puzzle](/source/puzzle)s. The company was founded in [Montreal](/source/Montreal), [Quebec](/source/Quebec), by [Paul Gallant](/source/Paul_Gallant), and marketed itself as "The Puzzle Innovators". Its namesake appears to stem from the fact that the company's [mascot](/source/mascot) is a green [frog](/source/frog), and "Wrebbit" is either an alternative spelling or possibly a play-on words of the word ''ribbit''. In the late 1990s, all of three-dimensional puzzles were a successful fad, leading to a rapid growth in the company. In 2001, the business was bought by [Irwin Toy](/source/Irwin_Toy). When Irwin Toy filed for bankruptcy a year later, Gallant bought back the business and relaunched it in a much reduced state. In 2005, the business was bought by the US-based [Hasbro](/source/Hasbro), which moved the manufacture of Wrebbit's puzzles to its facility in [East Longmeadow, Massachusetts](/source/East_Longmeadow%2C_Massachusetts), in 2006. Gallant died on September 13, 2011.{{cite news|title=Famous Puzz 3D Inventor Dies at 67 |url=http://toysandgamesmagazine.ca/9404/famous-puzz-3d-inventor-dies-at-67/ |website=Toys & Games |publisher=Playtonic Communications |date=September 14, 2011|access-date=September 24, 2011}} In 2012, Gallant's son and a partner who worked for Wrebbit revived the Wrebbit name and founded Wrebbit 3D Puzzle, producing the same type of puzzle as ''Puzz 3D''. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.wrebbit3d.com Wrebbit 3D] Category:Former Hasbro subsidiaries {{puzzle-game-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Wrebbit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrebbit) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrebbit?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.