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Orbanes, Philip E. (2004). The Game Makers: The Story of Parker Brothers (Firsted.). Harvard Business School Press. p. 92. ISBN 1-59139-269-1. Hinebaugh, Jeffrey P. (2009). A Board Game Education: Building Skills for Academic Success. Rowman & Littlefield Education. p.72. ISBN 978-1-60709-260-5.

Gunther, Noel; Hutton, Richard (1986). Beyond Boardwalk and Park Place. Bantam. ISBN 0-553-34341-6. Whitehill, Bruce (1999). "American Games: A Historical Perspective" (PDF). Board Games Studies. Research School CNWS, Leiden University, The Netherlands (2): 116–141. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 20, 2008 . Retrieved April 19, 2013. Under the Boardwalk, LLC. "Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story – 2015 Monopoly Championship Info". a b Glonnegger, Erwin (1999). Das Spiele-Buch (Erweiterte Neuauflageed.). Drei Magier Verlag. p.115. ISBN 3-9806792-0-9.

In December 1935, Parker Brothers sent a copy of the game to Victor Watson, Sr. of Waddington Games. Watson and his son Norman tried the game over a weekend, and liked it so much that Waddington took the (then extraordinary) step of making a transatlantic "trunk call" to Parker Brothers, the first such call made or received by either company. [81] This impressed Parker Brothers sufficiently that Waddington was granted licensing rights for Europe and the then- British Commonwealth, excluding Canada. [82] Waddingtons version, their first board game, with locations from London substituted for the original Atlantic City ones, was first produced in 1936. [83] See H.R. 4460, and S. 1440, United States Congress, First Session, 1983, H.R. 6285 and S. 1990, 98th United States Congress, Second Session, 1984. This was signed into Public Law 98-620, by Ronald Reagan on November 8, 1984. In 1990, Merv Griffin Enterprises turned Monopoly into a prime time game show, airing after Super Jeopardy! on Saturday nights on ABC during that summer. The program was hosted by Mike Reilly and announced by Charlie O'Donnell. In 1994, the license to the company that would become USAopoly was issued, and they produced a San Diego, California edition as their first board. In 1995, a license for new game variations and reprints of Monopoly was granted to Winning Moves Games. See the Localizations, licenses, and spin-offs section below for details on further releases by both companies.

Brandreth, Gyles (1985). The Monopoly Omnibus (First hardcovered.). Willow Books. p.185. ISBN 0-00-218166-5. In 1903, Georgist Lizzie Magie applied for a patent on a game called The Landlord's Game with the object of showing that rents enriched property owners and impoverished tenants. She knew that some people would find it hard to understand the logic behind the idea, and she thought that if the rent problem and the Georgist solution to it were put into the concrete form of a game, it might be easier to demonstrate. She was granted the patent for the game in January 1904. The Landlord's Game became one of the first board games to use a "continuous path", without clearly defined start and end spaces on its board. [15] [16] Another innovation in gameplay attributed to Magie is the concept of "ownership" of a place on a game board, such that something would happen to the second (or later) player to land on the same space, without the first player's piece still being present. [16] A copy of Magie's game that she had left at the Georgist community of Arden, Delaware and dating from 1903–1904, was presented for the PBS series History Detectives. [17] This copy featured property groups, organized by letters, later a major feature of Monopoly as published by Parker Brothers. [18] [19] Waddingtons later produced special games during World War II which secretly contained files, a compass, a map printed on silk, and real currency hidden amongst the Monopoly money, to enable prisoners of war to escape from German camps. [94] [95] However, this story has come under recent scrutiny and is being disputed. [96] Canada Crowns a Monopoly Champion!". 9 December 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-07-01 . Retrieved 2015-05-06.Parker Brothers was acquired by General Mills in February 1968. [124] The first Monopoly edition in Braille is published in 1973. [125] Also in 1973, as the Atlantic City Commissioner of Public Works considered name changes for Baltic and Mediterranean Avenues, fans of the board game, with support from the president of Parker Brothers, successfully lobbied for the city to keep the names. [126] After Parker Brothers was taken over by General Mills, the Monopoly license to Waddingtons was renegotiated (as was the Clue/ Cluedo license to Parker Brothers/General Mills by Waddingtons). [127] By 1974, Parker Brothers had sold 80 million sets of the game. [128] In 1975, another anniversary edition was produced, but this edition came in a cardboard box looking much like a standard edition. [123] Parker Brothers was under management by General Mills as the first six Monopoly Tournaments were held. The board game Monopoly has its origin in the early 20th century. The earliest known version, known as The Landlord's Game, was designed by Elizabeth Magie and first patented in 1904, but existed as early as 1902. [1] [2] Magie, a follower of Henry George, originally intended The Landlord's Game to illustrate the economic consequences of Ricardo's Law of economic rent and the Georgist concepts of economic privilege and land value taxation. [3] A series of board games was developed from 1906 through the 1930s that involved the buying and selling of land and the development of that land. By 1933, a board game had been created much like the modern version of Monopoly sold by Parker Brothers and its related companies through the rest of the 20th century, and into the 21st. Several people, mostly in the midwestern United States and near the East Coast of the United States, contributed to design and evolution. a b c d Pilon, Mary (October 20, 2009). "How a Fight Over a Board Game Monopolized an Economist's Life". Wall Street Journal . Retrieved May 28, 2013. a b Albertarelli, Spartaco (2000). "1000s Ways to Play Monopoly" (PDF). Board Games Studies. Research School CNWS, Leiden University, The Netherlands (3): 117–121. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 June 2013 . Retrieved 19 April 2013.