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Monopoly games

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchFor the game show, see Monopoly (game show).Monopoly (Board Game) Players make their way around a Monopoly board, such as this Australian Limited Edition one. Publisher Parker BrothersWaddingtons Players 2–20 Setup time 5–15 minutes Playing time 1.5 to 10 hours Random chance Medium (dice rolling, card drawing) Monopoly is a board game published by Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro. Players compete to acquire wealth through stylized economic activity involving the buying, renting, and trading of properties using play money, as players take turns moving around the board according to the roll of the dice. The object of the game is to bankrupt the other players. The game is named after the economic concept of monopoly, the domination of a market by a single entity.
Monopoly is the most commercially-successful board game in United States history, with 480 million players worldwide.[1]
According to Hasbro, since Charles Darrow patented the game in 1935, approximately 750 million people have played the game, making it "the most played (commercial) board game in the world."[2] The 1999 Guinness Book of Records cited Hasbro's previous statistic of 500 million people having played Monopoly.[3] Games Magazine has inducted Monopoly into its Hall of Fame.[4]

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