Collect $200 • Monopoly

Collect $200 • Monopoly • this painting is sold

Real and Incredible Facts About the Monopoly® Game

For sixty years, over 480 million players from around the globe have played this extraordinary game. But it takes more than just playing an occasional round to keep up on all the facts that surround the world’s most popular game.

Did you now that:

Mr. Monopoly is the name of the MONOPOLY® man.

George Parker issued a memo in 1936 that was to halt the productions of the MONOPOLY® game. He later withdrew the instruction and the rest is history!

Parker Brothers rejected the MONOPOLY® game when it was first presented to them in 1933, citing 52 fundamental playing flaws.

Over 5,120,000,000 little green houses have been “constructed” since the MONOPOLY® game was introduced in 1935.

World records are maintained for the longest game in a treehouse (286) hours, underground (100 hours), in a bathtub (99 hours) and upside-down (36 hours).

The longest MONOPOLY® game ever played was 1,680 hours long. That is 70 straight days!

Escape maps, compasses and files were inserted into MONOPOLY® game boards smuggled into POW camps inside Germany during World War II. Real money for escapees was slipped into the packs of MONOPOLY® money.

The total amount of money in a standard MONOPOLY® game is $15,140.

The MONOPOLY® game is published in 27 languages, including Croatian and licensed in more than 81 countries. Thai edition of Monopoly is the newest edition, introduced at the Toys R Us store in Bangkok, in December 2005.

In the 1970’s, a Braille edition of the MONOPOLY® game was created for the visually impaired.

Parker Brothers once sent an armored car with one million dollars of the MONOPOLY® game money to a marathon game in Pittsburgh that had run out of funds.

In 1972, the Atlantic City Commissioner of Public Works threatened to change the names of the real Baltic and Mediterranean Avenues, but public outcry vetoed the bill.

Over 20 tokens have been cast since the MONOPOLY® game was introduced in 1935 such as the horse, dog, car, elephant, purse and lantern.

A set made by Alfred Dunhill, that included gold and silver houses and hotels, sold for $25,000.

In 1978, the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog offered a chocolate version of the game priced at $600.

The three most-landed-on properties are Illinois Avenue. “GO” and the B&O Railroad.

The character locked behind the bars is called Jake the Jailbird. Officer Edgar Mallory sent him to jail.

There are 22 properties that can be built upon.

When a player lands on an unowned property and decides not to buy it, the property goes to auction.

Over 250 million sets of the MONOPOLY® game have been sold worldwide.

www.Monopoly.com

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