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Monopoly City is a board game that is a spin-off of the original Monopoly. It was released by Hasbro in 2009, and made its first public appearance at the Nuremberg International Toy Fair . It was named 'Game of the Year 2009' by the British Toy and Hobby Association at the 57th London Toy Fair. [ 1 ]
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.
Lizzie Magie's 1904 board design, The Landlord's Game, was a predecessor of Monopoly. The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1903, [1] [7] when American anti-monopolist Lizzie Magie created a game called The Landlord's Game that she hoped would explain the single-tax theory of Henry George as laid out in his book Progress and Poverty.
Game description: This is a reproduction of a 1957 board and Monopoly set. It uses the standard U.S. Atlantic City properties. The set comes in a wooden case, with a lid that slides off, and holds the board, with compartments for the cards, tokens and paper money. A brief history of the game is reprinted inside the lid.
Monopoly, a 1990 American television game show based on the board game; Monopoly, any one of more than a dozen video game adaptations of the board game; The Monopoly Game 2, a Japanese video game from 1995 for the Super Famicom; Monopoly: The Card Game, a card game loosely based on the board game
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Darrow posing with a Monopoly board game set. Monopoly is a board game which focuses on the acquisition of fictional real estate titles, with the incorporation of elements of chance. After losing his job at a sales company following the Stock Market Crash of 1929, Darrow worked at various odd jobs. Seeing his neighbors and acquaintances play a ...
Monopoly is one of the best-selling commercial board games in the world. As the name suggests, the conditions for winning are based on the acquisition of wealth through a stylised version of economic activity involving the purchase, rental, and trading of real estate using play money, as players take turn to move around the board based on the roll of the dice.