Poly's Transformative Essay: Monopoly In America

Monopoly, one of the most popular board games in America (Clever 507). Its also the world’s best selling board game, and as of 2011, Monopoly is sold in one hundred three different and made in thirty-seven different languages (Clever 508). The fake money in the game was even printed differently according to the country’s money currency (Clever 508). The goal of the game was to become the richest player by owing most of the properties and making the most money off said properies until all players go bankrupte (Clever 507). Monopoply is such a big hit in today’s world of board games, but the wrong person is getting credit for the lucrative game. The real inventor gets overshadowed in the history of the game while the man people say made it really took the idea. In 1903 Elizabeth Magie invented a board …show more content…
“The Secret). Prior to the Great Depression, Darrow was a plumber and steam engineer, but he lost his job when the economy began to fail (Orbanes 56). Darrow was hopeless and could not find a way to make money, until 1932, when his friends Charles and Olive Todd introduced him to Magie’s game, “The Landlord’s Game” (Pilon, Mary. “The Secret). Darrow enjoyed the game and immediately knew what to do. He asked for twelve written copies of the rules from Todd so he could make his own version of the game (orbanes 53). Darrow’s game was almost an exact copy of Magie’s Landlord’s Game (Pilon, Mary. “The Secret). Once he finished it his friends asked for copies to play with friends and family, but Darrow charged them for each game (Orbanes 54). Everyone that purchased the game from Darrow started calling is the “Monopoly game” (Pilon, Mary. “The Secret). He then took and sold the game to Parker Brothers, and this is when Darrow started rolling in the money and interview questions like “How did you come up with the idea” unlike the original creator, Magie (Pilon, Mary. “The