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The Landlord's Game
The Landlord's Game is a board game patented in 1904 by Elizabeth Magie as . It is a realty and taxation game intended to educate users about Georgism. It is the inspiration for the board game "Monopoly".
History.
In 1902 to 1903, Magie designed the game and play tested it in Arden, Delaware. The game was created to be a "practical demonstration of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences". She based the game on
the second version of "The Landlord's Game", Issued Sep 23, 1924
- – Patent awarded to C.B. Darrow for "Monopoly" on December 31, 1935
- The History of "The Landlord's Game" and "Monopoly".
- History of "Monopoly" at World of Monopoly
- Online photo album of many historical U.S. "Monopoly" sets, from Charles Darrow's sets through the 1950s from the Fernandez Collection Sundown Farm and Ranch
- Another online photo album of early Parker Brothers