Interesting Facts About Monopoly

     Looks like a monopoly game that was familiar. Almost every child may ever play this exciting game. In Indonesia there are even two kinds of monopoly, local and international. If we can locally around Indonesia and bought a house in Brastagi, Cipanas, even Monas. If we can internationally to France, America to London.

     Monopoly is quite exciting because it played more than one person, so the fabric feels more familiarity. Monopoly also trained to manage finances until the competition. That's the positive side. While the poor may affect capitalist views, master of wealth as much as possible.

     However, take the positive side ya. And we see other facts about the game which is classified as a "Board Game" with a look at the list below.

• This game was created by Parker Brothers.
• Monopoly is also referred to as "The Fast - Dealing Property Trading Game".
• The initial version of monopoly can be traced back to 1903.
• The initial version of this game was made by Maggie Elizabeth that was initially created as a game for people to more easily understand the tax.
• Two well-known character in the monopoly is Jake the Jailbird and Officer Edgar Mallory.
• Mr. Monopoly 's real name is Rich Uncle Pennybags.
• More than 275 million games have been sold worldwide.
• Monopoly known to be sold in more than 111 countries.
• This game has been translated into 43 languages ​.
• Recorded the longest Monopoly game lasted for 70 consecutive days.
• A monopoly board sent into space in 2007.
• Between 1940 to 1960, the monopoly was selected as the number one game in the United States.
• Escape maps, compass, document, and money being smuggled in a box monopoly during World War II.
• During the 1970's , invented the Braille version of monopoly for the blind
• In 1972 , Public Works Commissioner Americans want to change the name of a place in the Monopoly board but opposed by the public.

Chocolate monopoly in the Harvard Museum

• In 1978, The Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog offered a chocolate monopoly game for US$ 600.
• More than six billion and 2.25 billion house hotel has been created in this game.
• Many new edition monopoly available, including Disney and Lord of the Rings.
• There are many world tournaments such as the monopoly held in Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Singapore, United Kingdom, and the United States.
• Most expensive Monopoly board created by designer Sidney Mabell that have a board with 23 carat gold and diamond studded dice worth more than US$ 2 million!

Monopoly gold designer Sidney Mabell

     Monopoly also penetrated the virtual universe. This game can be played online and these are the facts:

• Monopoly has been made ​​in more than seven media platforms, in twenty languages ​​and have been downloaded more than 10 million times.
• In 2008, 3.000 peoples do online monopoly game in an effort to break the world record.
• Monopoly was awarded the Best Mobile App Award in 2008.

Written By : Arbha ~ Public-DYK

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