Monopoly is one of the best-selling board games in history. It was invented by a woman, who for a long time didn't get credit for her idea. What else is hidden in the game's history? Find out here.

The original Monopoly game was released in 1906, and it looked very different from the version on your shelf (or computer) today. In fact, it didn’t even have the same name.

Buying real estate and driving other players into bankruptcy — that's how the world-famous board game Monopoly works. But its creator had a different mission: She dreamed of a world in which ...

Monopoly is one of the best-selling board games in history — sales went up during the COVID-19 pandemic. The game is built on powerful American lore: anyone can rise from rags to riches.

When you look at Lizzie Magie'’’s Landlord's game, you see the origins of Monopoly in it. In 1904, Lizzie Magie receives the patents, the first patent by a woman for a board game in U.S. history.

But in “Ruthless: Monopoly’s Secret History,” a new PBS documentary, we learn that this wasn’t always the case. The game was originally designed in 1903, by Lizzie Magie, a charismatic ...

In its first year, 1935, Monopoly became the best-selling game in America. In its over its 80-year history, over a billion people have played it. A quartet of Earlham Quakers developed the hottest ...

A group of children play the popular board game Monopoly, 1942. Courtesy Museum of History and Industry, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection. This article is the third in a series called A ...

How much money do you start with in Monopoly Junior? Hasbro created Monopoly Junior in 1990 to cater to younger fans. The game differs in its currency, spaces on the board and even the replacement ...

Monopoly is a game with a long history and many official editions, and Hasbro, which currently produces and sells the game, has licensed the Mr. Monopoly character for various commercial uses ...