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2. Monopoly (game) - Wikipedia

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   Monopoly. Monopoly is a multiplayer economics-themed board game. In the game, players roll two dice to move around the game board, buying and trading properties and developing them with houses and hotels. Players collect rent from their opponents and aim to drive them into bankruptcy.

3. History of Monopoly - Wikipedia

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   The original patent on The Landlord's Game expired in 1921. By this time, the hand-made games became known simply as Monopoly. [30] [31] Charles Muhlenberg and his wife, Wilma, taught the game to Wilma's brothers, Louis and Ferdinand "Fred" Thun, in the early 1920s.

4. Charles Darrow - Wikipedia

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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 ...

5. Lizzie Magie - Wikipedia

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   The Monopoly board game, which Lizzie Magie claimed was similar to her patent, The Landlord's Game. Magie's game was becoming increasingly popular around the Northeastern United States. College students attending Harvard, Columbia, and University of Pennsylvania, left-leaning middle class families, and Quakers were all playing her board game.

6. Monopoly: The Mega Edition - Wikipedia

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   Monopoly: The Mega Edition is a special variant of the popular board game Monopoly. The game was first published on May 22, 2006 by Winning Moves Games USA in the USA. A UK version was adapted on October 1, 2007. The game board is larger than that of regular Monopoly (30% bigger). The game now includes $/£1,000 bills, and it includes an option ...

7. Get Out of Jail Free card - Wikipedia

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   The original U.S. version of the board game Monopoly has two Get Out of Jail Free cards, with distinctive artwork. One, a "Community Chest" card, depicts a winged version of the game's mascot, Mr. Monopoly, in his tuxedo as he flies out of an open birdcage. The other, a "Chance" card, shows him booted out of a prison cell in a striped convict ...