Monopoly is an economy-themed multiplayer board game. In the game, players roll dice to move around the game board, buy and trade properties, and develop in houses and hotels. Players collect rent from their opponents to bankrupt them. Money can also be gained or lost through random and community cards and control squares. The player receives a prize for each "Go" passed and can be put in jail, from which they cannot move until one of three conditions is met. There are House Rules, hundreds of different editions, many derivatives, and related media. Monopoly has become part of international popular culture, being locally licensed in over 103 countries and printed in over 37 languages. As of 2015, the game is estimated to have sold him 275 million copies worldwide.
Monopoly derives from the game of landlords created by Lizzie Magic in the United States in 1903, where an economy that rewards individuals shows that monopoly is superior to an economy that holds all the wealth, Henry George's economic theory, especially his views on taxation. Landlord's Game originally had two sets of rules, one involving taxes and the other on which the current rules are largely based. When Parker Brothers first released Monopoly in his 1935, the game didn't include a non-capitalist tax system, making it a more aggressive game. Parker Brothers was acquired by Hasbro in 1991. The game is named after the economic concept of monopoly, the domination of a market by a single entity.
History
Early history
The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1903. That's when American anti-monopolyist Lizzie Magic created the game in hopes of explaining Henry George's flat tax theory. It was intended as an educational tool to explain the negative aspects of land concentration in private monopolies. She applied for her patent in 1904. Their game The Landlord's Game has been self-published since 1906.
Magic has created two rulesets for her.
A set of anti-monopolyists, where everyone is rewarded for creating wealth, and a set of monopolists whose goal is to create monopolies and destroy their enemies. Several board game variations based on her concept were developed from 1906 to the 1930s. They included both the purchase of land for development and the sale of vacant lots. Cardboard houses were added and the rent increased as they were added to the property. Magic she patented this game again in 1923.
Philadelphia's Charles Todd recalled a day in 1932 when her childhood friend Esther Jones and her husband Charles Darrow came to his house for dinner, according to an advertisement in the Christian Science Monitor. I was. After dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Todds introduced Darrow to the Landlord's Game, which he played several times. The game was completely new to Darrow, and he asked for a rulebook written by Todds. After that night, Darrow continued to capitalize on this, self-distributing the game as Monopoly.
Parker Brothers purchased the game rights from Darrow. When the company learned that Darrow wasn't the only inventor of the game, he bought the Magic patent for $500.
Parker Brothers began selling the game on November 5, 1935. Cartoonist F.O. Alexander contributed to the design. we. Patent No. US 2026082 A was granted to Charles Darrow on December 31, 1935 for his game board design and was assigned to Parker Brothers. His original version of the game in this format was based on the cityscape of Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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