“What sparked the creation of Phase 10 was years of playing card games like Rummy,” Johnson tells ESSENCE. What would come out of his work was Phase 10, an easy-to-learn and addictive game that forces you to make due with the cards you’re dealt while trying to complete all 10 phases and be the player with the lowest score by the end. After a concept for a board game failed to fully materialize, he decided to create his own take on the popular two-player card game Gin Rummy. While many of us are just trying to find the ground underneath our feet at 22, for Ken Johnson, he was already working on his second idea for a game to bring to the entertainment industry.
