Her game, The Landlord's Game, was commercially published a few years later. In 1904, an inventor named Lizzie Magie patented a game through which she hoped to be able to explain some of the economic ideas of Henry George. The history of Monopoly can be traced back to the early 1900s.
Games Magazine has inducted Monopoly into its Hall of Fame. The game is named after the economic concept of monopoly, the domination of a market by a single seller.Īccording 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. Players compete to acquire wealth through stylized economic activity involving the buying, rental and trading of properties using play money, as players take turns moving around the board according to the roll of the dice. Monopoly is the best-selling commercial board game in the world. Throughout this article, the unqualified use of currency denominations such as '$' or '£' generally refers to play money in the context of the game. Medium ( dice rolling, card drawing, luck)
Players make their way around the Monopoly board, such as this German one.
