I’ve come a long way.

Hmmm…

Ever cheat at Monopoly? So did its “creator,” Charles Darrow, who stole the idea from a pioneering female game designer.

The true story of Monopoly begins a few decades before Darrow rolled the dice, with a Washington, D.C., woman named Lizzie Magie. In 1904, Magie patented something called the Landlord’s Game, which was, in some great irony, an argument against the concentration of wealth. Her game spread around the country, including to the Quakers of Atlantic City, N.J., who added all their city’s street names (Atlantic Avenue, Kentucky Avenue, Park Place). Darrow got his hands on the game through a Quaker friend — and then sold it to Parker Brothers as his own.

Magie’s story only came to light in the 1970s, when Parker Brothers went after a San Francisco State University professor who was producing a game called Anti-Monopoly. Read the whole story here – and you know I’m the iron, right? I’m always the iron.

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