Founded in 1975 in Honolulu, Hawaii, the firm Xanadu Leisure, Ltd. grew from an earlier company, Gamut of Games, Inc., that Joli Quentin Kansil (also known as Prince Joli Kansil) founded with four partners in 1969. The main product of his first game company Gamut of Games Inc. was JQK's first game, Bridgette, launched in 1970. It is a two-hand bridge game that sold many thousands of sets over a 30-year period. Bridgette is one of only 20 games in the GAMES Magazine Hall of Fame, along with such other classics as Monopoly, Scrabble, Clue, Sorry, Diplomacy, and Acquire. It is hoped that a new version of Bridgette will be marketed in the near future.

Currently Xanadu Leisure's games are available by mail order with some very limited store distribution in the USA and Europe.

The name Xanadu comes from the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The first line of the famous poem describes the summer palace that the Emperor built in northern China:

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure-dome decree: . . .

Xanadu Leisure, Ltd. is mainly in the game-designing and game-marketing business, but it also has worked in a consultant capacity in the travel and leisure industry, and the firm is involved with investments and other projects in other areas as well.

The 3 extra cards for Bridgette. The "Colons" were designed by JQK in a dream he had in high school when he first started working on the game. Some 350,000 Bridgette packs have been sold since 1970, and Bridgette is one of only 20 games in the GAMES Magazine Hall of Fame.

Xanadu Leisure, Ltd., Drawer 10816, Honolulu, HI 96816, U.S.A