| Monopoly is one of the most successful board games ever made. More than a billion people have played the game, which is surprising when you consider what it is about. In Monopoly, you buy, sell, and manage property2. The goal is to become richer than everyone else and take all your opponents' money. In fact, it is just like the real world of business. An American woman named Lizzie J. Magie came up with the original game in 1904. Later, a man named Charles Darrow tried to sell his version to a toy company.
However, the company rejected Darrow, so he took it upon himself to make 5,000 sets of the game on his own and get them to a department store in time for Christmas. Word about Monopoly being a lot of fun spread, and every set was sold in no time. When the toy company realized their mistake, they arranged to buy the game from Darrow, and the rest is history.
Magie's invention was called The Landlord's3 Game. She created it to show how bad it could get when someone controlled too much property. However, most people don't think about that when they are playing. Any Monopoly player will tell you that it is a game that breeds greed. Play for a minute and you will see. Before long, all you will want to do is win, win, win!. |
