![]() ![]() If you would like to support the mission of Open Culture, consider making a donation to our site. If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newsletter, please find it here. He eventually made millions.Īs they like to say in the US, it’s just business.įor more on the origins of Monopoly, read Mary Pilon’s piece in The Times. Instead, a fellow named Charles Darrow came along and drafted his own version of the game, tweaked the design, called it Monopoly ( see the earliest version here), slapped a copyright on the packaging with his name, and then sold the game to Parker Brothers for a reported $7,000, plus residuals. Magie Philips never got credit or residuals from the Parker Brothers’ game. Above, you can see an image from the patent Philips filed in 1904 (top), and another image from the marketed game. ![]() The Landlord’s Game also had the look & feel of the game the Parker Brothers would eventually bastardize and make famous. Players borrowed money, either from the bank or from each other, and they had to pay taxes,” Pilon writes in her new book. Patented in 1904 and self-published in 1906, The Landlord’s Game featured “play money and deeds and properties that could be bought and sold.
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