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  2. Board game - Wikipedia

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    The board game Travellers' Tour Through the United States and its sister game Traveller's Tour Through Europe were published by New York City bookseller F. & R. Lockwood in 1822 and claim the distinction of being the first board games published in the United States. [16]

  3. Milton Bradley - Wikipedia

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    The game—and later board games produced by the Milton Bradley Company—also fit the nation's increasing amount of leisure time, leading to great financial success for the company. [ 4 ] From 1860 through the 20th century, the company he founded, Milton Bradley Company , dominated the production of American games, including The Game of Life ...

  4. History of games - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known board games all used dice and were for two players. [6] Among the earliest examples of a board game is senet, a game found in Predynastic and First Dynasty burial sites in Egypt (circa 3500 BC and 3100 BC, respectively) and in hieroglyphs dating to around 3100 BC. [10]

  5. History of Monopoly - Wikipedia

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    The Landlord's Game became one of the first board games to use a "continuous path", without clearly defined start and end spaces on its board. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Another innovation in gameplay attributed to Magie is the concept of "ownership" of a place on a game board, such that something would happen to the second (or later) player to land on the ...

  6. The Game of Life - Wikipedia

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    The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a board game originally created in 1860 by Milton Bradley as The Checkered Game of Life, the first ever board game for his own company, the Milton Bradley Company.

  7. Candy Land - Wikipedia

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    Candy Land is a simple racing board game created by Eleanor Abbott and published by Milton Bradley in 1948. The game requires no reading and minimal counting skills, making it suitable for young children.

  8. List of board games - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of board games. See the article on game classification for other alternatives, or see Category:Board games for a list of board game articles. Board games are games with rules, a playing surface, and tokens that enable interaction between or among players as players look down at the playing surface and face each other. [ 1 ]

  9. Charles Darrow - Wikipedia

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    Darrow sought and received U.S. patent 2,026,082 on the game in 1935, which Parker Brothers acquired. Within a year, 20,000 sets of the game were being produced every week. Monopoly became the best-selling board game in America that year, and it made Darrow the first millionaire game designer in history.