In 1903, Elizabeth Magie, a supporter of Henry George's single land value tax argument, patented a board game entitled, The Landlord's Game, to illustrate "how the landlord has an advantage over other enterprisers, and also how the single tax would discourage speculation." The Landlord's Game grew in popularity, particularly among business students and Quakers, who drew up their own versions on oilcloths and "considered it a point of honor" not to commercialize the game and succumb to the capitalist system. How ironic that this same game became today's Monopoly, a cutthroat game that determines its winner by his ability to shrewdly monopolize property and bankrupt the other players.
"The Landlord's Game" passed from parlor table to table, evolving into "Monopoly" then "Auction Monopoly" and even into a game called "Finance" that was marketed by student, Dan Layman, and manufactured by Electronic Laboratories, Inc. In the 1930's, Ruth Hoskins, an Atlantic City resident, renamed all of Monopoly's now-famous properties by using the street names of friends who also lived in the area (although, such properties as B & O Railroad and Shortline were inventions of her imagination). It was this version of Monopoly that was introduced by Hoskins' friends, Eugene and Ruth Raiford, to Charles Darrow.
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Broke, unemployed and expecting a child during the height of the Great Depression, Darrow marketed the game as his own invention, selling Monopoly to several stores in Philadelphia before he brought it to Parker Brothers in 1934. The game manufacturer was fighting off bankruptcy when Darrow approached them. By the end of the first year, Parker Brothers had sold over 1 million Monopoly games. With such a vested interested in the game, Parker Brothers, upon discovering that Darrow did not own complete rights to Monopoly, bought out all other versions, including "The Landlord's Game," from Magie, "Finance" that ended up belonging to David W. Knapp, and "Inflation" owned by a Rudy Copeland in Texas.
Parker Brothers has since been bought out by General Mills, then subsequently sold to Hasbro in 1991. Monopoly continues to evolve now with hometown editions developed by USAopoly and brand new Monopoly U-Build and Monopoly: Revolution Edition expected to release in time for the holiday season. More than 275 million copies of Monopoly have been sold in 111 countries and 43 different languages, and more than 1 billion people have played the game since 1935.
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