Boardwalk Empire

February 24, 2024

The inventor of the world’s most popular board game, Monopoly, created it in 1904 to demonstrate what? Was it … property ownership, gambling, land overdevelopment or the stock market?

The answer: Land overdevelopment. In 1904, Elizabeth Magie patented The Landlord’s Game to show the economic consequences of land concentration and overdevelopment. It became Monopoly by Parker Brothers in 1935.