Monopoly Monopoly Advance to Boardwalk is a spin-off of the Parker Brothers board game Monopoly. Like its progenitor, its setting is the real-estate world in Atlantic City, New Jersey, but focuses only on the boardwalk area. It involves the building of hotels, which are constructed by the various players who place markers to indicate the growing floors of the hotels. More than one player can have floors in a given hotel, but much like Monopoly, advantages can be gained by owning a majority of floors in a given hotel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Advance to Boardwalk"
Anti-Monopoly is a board game made by San Francisco State University Professor Ralph Anspach, in response to Monopoly. In the original 1974 version the board is " monopolized" at the beginning of the game, and players compete to return the state of the board to a free market system. In a more recent version individual players choose at the beginning of the game to play either by monopolistic or competitive rules. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anti-Monopoly"
Atlantik is an open source computer game clone of the classic board game Monopoly. Atlantik was made for the KDE system. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atlantik"
Canadian Monopoly is an edition of the popular board game Monopoly. It features Canadian properties, railroads and utilities in place of those from the original game. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canadian Monopoly"
Charles Darrow ( August 10, 1889– August 29, 1967), was the patentor of the board game Monopoly. Darrow was a domestic- heater salesman from Germantown in southeastern Pennsylvania during the Great Depression. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Darrow"
With the popularity of Monopoly, one variation created in 1977 took the game's best features, removed the game's least liked features, and added additional useful features into a dog-themed game called Dogopoly . In additional to the usual Monopoly path around the board, two tracks were added within the center area to offer alternative routes. Also, several rules were changed to allow for much quicker game-play, with games typically lasting about two (2) hours rather than Monopoly's often-stalemated games. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dogopoly"
Don't Go To Jail is a Parker Brothers dice game for two or more players inspired by Monopoly. The game is played by rolling ten dice and attempting to roll matches to score points. ...more on Wikipedia about "Don't Go To Jail"
Elizabeth "Lizzie" J. Magie (later Elizabeth Magie Phillips), a Quaker from Virginia who was a follower of the economist Henry George, was the patentor of a board game that was the precursor to Monopoly. On March 23 1903, Magie applied to the US Patent Office for a patent on her board game, which was designed to demonstrate the evils of land monopolism. She was granted on January 5 1904. She patented a revised version of the game in 1924; it received . She sold her rights to the game for $500 in 1936 to Parker Brothers, with the understanding that they would promote the game, although they instead suppressed it in favor of Monopoly. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elizabeth Magie"
Free Parking is a Parker Brothers card game inspired by the "Free Parking" space of the Monopoly board game. ...more on Wikipedia about "Free Parking"
Galactic Magnate is free online multiplayer game based on board game Monopoly, but a few rules have been changed to deepen the strategy and make the game more interesting. In Galactic Magnate, whenever a player lands on an unpurchased property, the auction is started and the property is won by the highest bidder. This minimizes the impact of bad luck. Also, the salary decreases during the game which eliminates stalemates, so that termination conditions are allways reached in reasonable time. ...more on Wikipedia about "Galactic Magnate"
Ghettopoly is a Monopoly parody released in 2003. Invented by David Chang, it uses Monopoly-like mechanics in the atmosphere of a caricaturized American ghetto. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ghettopoly"
Hong Kong Monopoly is an edition of the popular board game Monopoly. It features properties, railroads and utilities located in Hong Kong, in place of those from the original game. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hong Kong Monopoly"
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* Denmark: Copenhagen Two nearly identical versions, "Matador" and "Monopoly". Both localized with a board with prominent Copenhagen-streets. Denominated in Danish kroner. Most expensive is the "City Hall square" (Danish: Rådhuspladsen). Additonally Monopoly Junior exists. ...more on Wikipedia about "Localized versions of the Monopoly game"
Monopoly was a short-lived game show that aired on ABC during the summer of 1990. Michael Reilly hosted this 13-week effort. It was loosely based on the board game of the same name. Charlie O'Donnell was the announcer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Monopoly (game show)"
Monopoly is one of the best-selling commercial board games in the world. Players compete to acquire wealth through stylized economic activity involving the purchase, rental and trading of real estate using play money, as players take turns moving around the board according to the roll of the dice. The game is named after the economic concept of monopoly, the domination of a market by a single seller. ...more on Wikipedia about "Monopoly (game)"
The Monopoly Best Chance Game is an advertising promotion of McDonald's and Hasbro. In recent years, Best Buy has been involved as well. ...more on Wikipedia about "Monopoly Best Chance Game"
Monopoly Junior is a simplified version of the board game Monopoly, aimed for young children. It has a smaller, rectangular board and instead of being based on street names it is based on a fun-fair, to make it more child-friendly. ...more on Wikipedia about "Monopoly Junior"
Rich Uncle Pennybags is the rotund old man in a top hat who serves as the mascot of the game Monopoly. He also appears in the related games Advance to Boardwalk, Free Parking and Monopoly Junior. Despite the outcry from dedicated fans of the game, Rich Uncle Pennybags was rechristened Mr. Monopoly in a Hasbro marketing effort in July 2000. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rich Uncle Pennybags"
Solarquest is a space-age real estate trading game published in 1985. Patterned after Monopoly, the game replaces pewter tokens with rocketships and hotels with metallic fuel stations. Players travel around the sun acquiring monopolies and fending off attacks. They seek to knock their opponents out of the game through a combination of bankruptcy, laser blasts, and dwindling fuel supplies. ...more on Wikipedia about "Solarquest"
The Landlord's Game is a board game patented in 1904 by Quaker Elizabeth Magie from Virginia. It is a realty and taxation game, similar to Monopoly. Though many similar home-made games were played at the beginning of the 20th Century and some predate The Landlord's Game, it is the first of its kind to have an attested patent. Magie re-patented a revised edition of the game in 1924. The patent numbers are 748,626 and 1,509,312. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Landlord's Game"
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