Today, MONOPOLY is the best-selling board game in the world, sold in 103 countries and produced in 41 languages including Croatian. But where did the MONOPOLY game come from? How did this phenomenal pastime get its start?
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It was 1934, the height of the Great Depression, when Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, Pennsylvania, showed what he called the MONOPOLY game to the executives at Parker Brothers. Can you believe it, they rejected the game due to "52 design errors"! But Mr. Darrow wasn't daunted. Like many other Americans, he was unemployed at the time, and the game's exciting promise of fame and fortune inspired him to produce the game on his own. With help from a friend who was a printer, Mr. Darrow sold 5,000 handmade sets of the MONOPOLY game to a Philadelphia department store. People loved the game! But as demand for the game grew, he couldn't keep up with all the orders and came back to talk to Parker Brothers again. The rest, as they say, is history!
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In its first year, 1935, the MONOPOLY game was the best-selling game in America. And over its 65-year history, an estimated 500 million people have played the game of MONOPOLY!
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The longest MONOPOLY game in history lasted 70 straight days
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World records are maintained for the longest game in a treehouse (286) hours, underground (100 hours), in a bathtub (99 hours) and upside-down (36 hours).
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I thought chess was the greatest boardgame?
For the record I have never ever played Monopoly. :(
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Escape maps, compasses and files were inserted into MONOPOLY® game boards smuggled into POW camps inside Germany during World War II. Real money for escapees was slipped into the packs of MONOPOLY® money
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In Cuba, the game had a strong following until Fidel Castro took power and ordered all known sets destroyed
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The MONOPOLY® game is published in 27 languages, including Croatian and licensed in more than 81 countries. Thai edition of Monopoly is the newest edition, introduced at the Toys R Us store in Bangkok, in December 2005
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The total amount of money in a standard MONOPOLY® game is $15,140.
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At the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, all six sets of the MONOPOLY® game that were on display mysteriously disappeared
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In 1978, the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog offered a chocolate version of the game priced at $600.
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The three most-landed-on properties are Illinois Avenue. "GO" and the B&O Railroad
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The 1983 Italian National Champion, Emilio Maltoni, learned to play the MONOPOLY® game alone by taking on the role of five players.
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what… it was my favourite game :pcg:
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Please post some pic or video to let me know how it actually looks and played.
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what you dont know about monopoly 
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I was playing with sticks istead of Monopoly when I was a boy. I came home as a Man and saw my nephew playing Ludo… that was the first time I saw a board game that did not have a chess or war theme to it. 
Sorry that I have not played this game maybe will play it with my son when he grows up. 
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this means you both are aged ppl 