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(If you're looking for a Monopoly board for general usage, have a look at Template:Monopoly board layout) This template can be used for a simple description, and is robust enough to handle alternate colors, nonstandard layouts and even the mega-boards with additional spaces. Below is an example of what this template produces.
The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.
The game simulates money management, with the game board resembling a calendar month. Before the game, the players decide how many months to be played (i.e. how many times to travel across the board). During the game, players accumulate bills and expenses to pay, along with collecting their monthly wage on "pay day" at the end of the month.
Most games use a standardized and unchanging board (chess, Go, and backgammon each have such a board), but some games use a modular board whose component tiles or cards can assume varying layouts from one session to another, or even during gameplay. game component See component. game equipment See equipment. game piece See piece. gameplay
In the 1940 musical film Strike Up The Band, a character suggests punchboards as a way to earn money pay for the titular band's fare to Chicago. The 1947 21-part storyline " Pennies for Plunder ", from the radio series The Adventures of Superman , revolved around a crooked punchboard racket directed at children.
Easy Money or The Game of Easy Money was a board game introduced by Milton Bradley Company in 1935. Like Monopoly , the game is based on The Landlord's Game in the movement of pieces around the board, the use of cards, properties that can be purchased, and houses that can be established on them.
The name Aggravation was trademarked by BERL Industries, which filed its application on April 10, 1959. [1] A contemporary patent filed by Howard P. Wilde, Sr. two months earlier, in February 1959, describes a game board "which may be played, with high interest, vexation and aggravation by two, three or four persons" but does not provide specific gameplay instructions for the cross-shaped ...
To make a custom Monopoly board, DO NOT edit this template. Copy the template code below, paste into your article or user page edit window, then follow the instructions for editing. Below is the template code (with standard property data filled in) that you can use to produce a board layout.