• 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...
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  • Original meaning of the word Monopoly comes from Greek as a compound of two words “mono,” which means “single” or “one,” and “polein“, meaning “ to sell...
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  • The following is a list of game boards of the Parker Brothers/Hasbro board game Monopoly adhering to a particular theme or particular locale in the United...
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  • A monopoly (from Greek μόνος, mónos, 'single, alone' and πωλεῖν, pōleîn, 'to sell'), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition"...
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  • Monopoly Go! (stylized as MONOPOLY GO!) is a 2023 mobile board game developed and published by Scopely in collaboration with Hasbro for iOS and Android...
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  • more commonly known as "Rich Uncle" Pennybags, is the mascot of the board game of Monopoly. He is depicted as a portly old man with a moustache who wears...
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    McDonald's Monopoly game is a sales promotion run by fast food restaurant chain McDonald's, with a theme based on the Hasbro board game Monopoly. The game...
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  • Anti-Monopoly is a board game made by San Francisco State University Professor Ralph Anspach in response to Monopoly. The idea of an anti-monopoly board...
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    named after the economic concept of a monopoly—the domination of a market by a single entity. The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1903, when...
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    standard British version of the board game Monopoly are set in London and were selected in 1935 by Victor Watson, managing director of John Waddington Limited...
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  • Ms. Monopoly is a version of Monopoly that recognizes inventions that women created or contributed to and gives bonuses to female players. It was released...
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  • The following is a list of game boards of the Parker Brothers/Hasbro board game Monopoly adhering to a particular theme or particular locale in Europe...
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    Monopoly money (symbol: ₩) is a type of play money used in the board game Monopoly. It is different from most currencies, including the American currency...
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  • There have been numerous Monopoly video games based on the core game mechanics of Parker Brothers and Hasbro's board game Monopoly. They have been developed...
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  • Monopoly Junior is a simplified version of the board game Monopoly, designed for young children, which was originally released in 1990. It has a rectangular...
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  • a city derived from the Monopoly board game. Instead of using dice, the game relies more on the speed and innovativeness of the players. In the standard...
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  • Monopoly Deal is a card game derived from the board-game Monopoly introduced in 2008, produced and sold by Cartamundi under a license from Hasbro. Upon...
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    In political philosophy, a monopoly on violence or monopoly on the legal use of force is the property of a polity that is the only entity in its jurisdiction...
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  • Monopoly: The Card Game is loosely based on the board game Monopoly. The idea is to draw, trade and organize cards into "color-groups" along with bonus...
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    Lizzie Magie (category Monopoly (game))
    Georgist. She invented The Landlord's Game, the precursor to Monopoly, to illustrate teachings of the progressive era economist Henry George. Elizabeth J....
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  • Monopoly: The Mega Edition is a special variant of the popular board game Monopoly. The game was first published on May 22, 2006 by Winning Moves Games...
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    The Landlord's Game (category Monopoly (game))
    game Monopoly. In 1902 to 1903, Magie designed the game and play tested it in Arden, Delaware. The game was created to be a "practical demonstration of the...
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  • Monopoly Streets is a video game based on the board game of the same name, and one of many in the Monopoly video game series. Developed by EA Salt Lake...
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  • government monopoly or public monopoly is a form of coercive monopoly in which a government agency or government corporation is the sole provider of a particular...
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    Parker Brothers (category History of Salem, Massachusetts)
    since 1883. Among its products were Monopoly, Clue (licensed from the British publisher and known as Cluedo outside of North America), Sorry!, Risk, Trivial...
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    A natural monopoly is a monopoly in an industry in which high infrastructural costs and other barriers to entry relative to the size of the market give...
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    Charles Darrow (category Monopoly (game))
    American board game designer who is credited as the inventor of the board game Monopoly. Although the original idea for the game came from Lizzie Magie's...
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  • Monopoly is an American television game show based on the board game of the same name. The format was created by Merv Griffin and produced by his production...
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    An alcohol monopoly is a government monopoly on manufacturing and/or retailing of some or all alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine and spirits. It can...
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  • Monopoly Star Wars is the 1997 Monopoly Star Wars video game based on the board game and set in the Star Wars fictional universe. It is one of many Monopoly...
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