East Coast, contributed to the game's design and evolution. The Parker Brothers' version was created by Charles Darrow. By the early 1930s, a board game named Monopoly was created much like the version of Monopoly sold by Parker Brothers and its parent companies throughout the rest of the 20th century and into the 21st. Lizzie herself patented a revised edition of the game in 1904, and similar games were published commercially. Other interested game players redeveloped the game and some made their own sets.
Her game, The Landlord's Game, was commercially published a few years later. Magie Phillips created a game through which she hoped to be able to explain the single tax theory of Henry George (it was supposed to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies). In 1904, a Quaker woman named Elizabeth (Lizzie) J. The history of Monopoly can be traced back to the early 1900s.
5.1 Limited number of houses and hotels.Games Magazine has inducted Monopoly into its Games Hall of Fame. According to Hasbro, since Charles Darrow patented the game in 1935, approximately 750 million people have played the game, making it "the most played board game in the world." The 1999 Guinness Book of Records cited Hasbro's previous statistic of 500 million people having played Monopoly. Monopoly is the most commercially-successful board game in United States history.
The game is named after the economic concept of monopoly, the domination of a market by a single entity. The object of the game is to own every piece of property by driving the other players into bankruptcy. Players compete to acquire wealth through stylized economic activity involving the buying, renting, and trading of properties using play money, as players take turns moving around the board according to the roll of the dice. Monopoly is a board game published by Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro. For other uses, see Monopoly (disambiguation).
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