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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
For generations, Monopoly has been America's favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and, for better or worse, the impulses that make our free-market society tick. An exhilarating game of no-holds-barred competition and brutal domination of opponents, it's a celebration of greed and accumulation of wealth with only one player standing at the end.
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"With its origins rooted in one of the Wall Street Journal's most emailed stories, The Monopolists is the inside story of how the game of Monopoly came into existence, the heavy embellishment of its provenance by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins. Most Americans who play Monopoly think it was invented by an...
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Pub. Date
2006
Description
Philip Orbanes, expert on all things Monopoliana, tells the remarkable history of the Monopoly game, from its predecessor's birth as a teaching tool for an economics class in the first decade of the twentieth century, through its introduction in 1935 and explosive growth in the postwar decades--over 200 million copies sold in sixty countries--to it being a fixture in just about every American home today. Orbanes includes personality portraits, little-known...
5) Monopoly
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Enjoy the classic game or choose the super-fast mode to trade properties and get rich quick. Includes several mini-games.
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©2008
Description
Purpose is to assemble property sets, charge rent, swap cards, demand birthday money and debt collection by drawing cards from the deal pile. Action cards are played into the center only on players' turns; payment demands can be paid from other players' banks, their properties, or cancelled by a "just say no card." First player to collect three complete card sets of different colors wins the game.
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