Monopoly

The favorite board game of kids of the 90's

Monopoly's History

Monopoly was invented in 1935 during the Great Depression by a man named Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, Pennsylvania. He showed his game, which he called Monopoly, to the Parker Brothers. The Parker Brothers surprisingly rejected it because of 52 design errors. Mr. Darrow was not disappointed, at the time he unemployed, he sold about 5,000 handmade sets to a Philadelphia department store. As the game became popular he couldn't keep making them handmade so he went to talk to Parker Brothers for the second time. The Parker Brothers were thrilled to get their hands on such a popular game. In 1935, Monopoly was the best-selling game in America. Over Monopoly's 60 year history , an estimated 500 million people have played it.

Here are some interesting facts about Monopoly:

• The longest Monopoly game lasted 70 days!
• The longest Monopoly game played in a bathtub lasted 99 hours!
• The longest Monopoly game played upside-down lasted 33 hours!
• Monopoly has been published in 26 different languages!
• Monopoly is also previously sold in 80 different countries!
• The longest Monopoly board was 938 feet wide and 765 feet long! It took up a whole city block!
• Parker Brothers prints out about 50 billion dollars of Monopoly money in one year!
• There is 15,140 dollars of Monopoly in a regular Monopoly game!
• There is more Monopoly money printed in the U.S.A than real money!

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