In 1935, a man named Charles Darrow removed the game’s socialist critique (the version that taxed land), renamed it Monopoly ...

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Answer: Yes, and it has a Bloomington tie. The original Monopoly boards, created in a game in 1935 by Charles Darrow, are reportedly insured, in the millions, by Bloomington-based State Farm.

During World War II, a few imaginative, skilled and very discreet printers, designers and executives turned a beloved board game into a get-out-of-jail device for prisoners of war. The idea was so ...

You think books have covered everything there is to write about World War II skullduggery, and then you stumble upon the book about how spies used Monopoly to pull the wool over Nazis’ eyes. The ...

Xavier Rubio-Campillo does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

In our travel news round-up this week: Nevada’s haunted clown motel, Rome’s crypt adorned with the bones of 4,000 friars, plus Seoul’s legendary honky-tonk bar. Back in 1967, commercial Ouija boards ...