Your Daily Facts about the Monopoly Game
Monopoly was invented by Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, Pennsylvania, during the Depression in the 1934.
The Monopoly Game was originally the product of Parker Brothers. The Hasbro Toy Co. now owns the rights to the game.
It is estimated that over 750 million people have played the game of Monopoly since 1935.
Over 200 million Monopoly games have been sold worldwide.
The game of Monopoly is sold in 81 countries, and produced in 27 languages.
A monopoly game uses 32 houses and 12 hotels.
$15,140 of play money is available in every Monopoly set. The newer (September 2008) editions have a total of $20,580. The game also includes two dice, 12 red hotels, and 32 green houses.
Over 5,120,000,000 little green houses have been “constructed” since the Monopoly game was introduced in 1935.
There are 22 properties that can be built upon.
The official mascot of Monopoly is Rich Uncle Pennybags. He was renamed Mr. Monopoly in 1998.
The character locked behind the bars is called Jake the Jailbird. Officer Edgar Mallory sent him to jail.
You have a 64% chance of landing on one of the Railroads each time you go around the board.
Based on probability, the most commonly landed on Monopoly square (not counting Jail) is Illinois Avenue.
In Atlantic City there’s no such place as Marvin Gardens.
Illinois Avenue doesn’t exist anymore. It was renamed Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
During World War II, maps, compasses, important files, and real money were put into Monopoly boards to help POWs escape imprisonment.
A Monopoly World Championship is held every four years.
The World Monopoly Tournament held in Atlantic City in 1973 featured a Monopoly board 18 feet long on each side; large enough for you to stand on. Bikini-clad females were used as the movable tokens.
Two students from the University of Michigan painted the Monopoly game board on the ceiling of their dorm room. The tokens were helium balloons.
The longest game lasted 70 days (over 1600 hours).
A chocolate version of the Monopoly game board retailed for $600 in 1978.
In the 1970′s, a Braille edition of the Monopoly game was created for the visually impaired.
McDonald’s teamed up with Monopoly several times to run a promotion, it came out that the game had been RIGGED for years. Fifty-one people ended up getting indicted for fraud.
The Guinness Book of World Records states that a set worth $2 million and made of 23-carat gold, with rubies and sapphires atop the chimneys of the houses and hotels, is the most expensive Monopoly set ever produced.