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Meanwhile, the game spread around the country - people made their own versions with paper - until it found its way to Charles Darrow in Philadelphia in 1933. Magie patented The Landlord's Game in 1904 and approached board game makers Parker Brothers, but they turned it down, saying it was too complicated. Monopoly was originally designed to warn players about the dangers of capitalism - but it ended up celebrating getting rich Go to Jail' which she said was owned by a British lord and was to signify 'foreign ownership of American soil'. One corner of the board was marked 'No Trespassing. In her original version players used paper money to buy utilities and property, just like the modern game.īut instead of passing 'Go' and collecting $200, you passed a square marked 'Labor upon Mother Earth produces wages' and got $100. The board game she called 'The Landlord's Game' was essentially a satire and she thought that when people played it they would 'see clearly the gross injustice of our present land system'. She thought it was grossly unfair that landlords raked in profits by passively owning land and wanted to change it. It was created in 1902 by Elizabeth Magie who believed in fairer taxation and wanted a single tax on land ownership to replace all other taxes. The first version of the board game was called 'The Landlord's Game' and was supposed to show the unfairness of private property ownership. If you play with rules that say that you cannot do any of those things while in Jail, you're playing by a house rule.The debate resurfaced on Twitter today when British podcaster Jon Jackson tweeted about his children 'remortgaging everything' during the game. You can still buy and sell properties, collect rents, and buy and sell houses and hotels.

Being in Jail isn't a major problem in the official rules.

This vastly extends the length of the game. In reality, most players just turn their properties into the bank, where they can be resold.

In the official rules, when a player bankrupts another player, he receives all the bankrupt player's remaining assets.

The rule is that landing on Go pays $200.

But most monopoly players don't know this rule, so they routinely play a house rule that prohibits bidding.

When a player decides not to purchase a property he lands on, the official rules declare that every player can bid on the property.

That house rule just extends the length of the game.

There is no need to go around the board once before you can purchase properties.

One house rule allows players to lend money to other players.

Monopoly rules