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The original 1935 Monopoly board patent. The Monopoly game board consists of forty spaces containing twenty-eight properties—twenty-two streets (grouped into eight distinct color groups), four railroads, and two utilities—three Chance spaces, three Community Chest spaces, a Luxury Tax space, an Income Tax space, and the four corner squares ...
English: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filing by Charles Darrow for a patent on the board game Monopoly, filed August 31, 1935 and granted December 31, 1935.While the images and text of this patent are public domain, Parker Brothers/Hasbro still hold trademarks on specific design elements of the game, including but not limited to the general game board design, the locomotive silhouettes ...
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In early 2010, Hasbro began selling the Free Parking and Get out of Jail add-on games, which can be played alone or when a player lands on the respective Monopoly board spaces. If played during a Monopoly game, success at either game gets the winning player a "free taxi ride to any space on the board" or "out of jail free", respectively.
This year, Monopoly celebrates its 75th anniversary. According to Hasbro, it is the world's most popular board game, with more than 200 million sets sold since 1935. Monopoly, which hasn't changed ...
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The locations on the standard British version of the board game Monopoly are set in London and were selected in 1935 by Victor Watson, managing director of John Waddington Limited. Watson became interested in the board game after his son Norman had tried the Parker Brothers original US version and recommended the company produce a board for the ...
Some copies came with a card, imprinted with a code, which could be used for a special anniversary contest: the chance to win US $15,140, which is the total amount of money included in every U.S. Monopoly game. The board is foil-wrapped, and the center artwork is done in a 1930s-art deco style, as are the playing tokens, houses and hotels.