“Monopoly” Board Game Was Invented By a Woman, Who Was Then Written Out of the Story

Hunter Walk
2 min readJan 17, 2017

Growing up I LOVED the board game Monopoly. We’d keep a legal pad to track the side deals, such as allowing one player to raise money from another in order to fund the purchase of houses & hotels. But I’d never heard the actual story of its beginnings until recently when I read about The Landlord’s Game, a precursor from which Monopoly was…

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Hunter Walk

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