In 1904, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Magie designed a board game to demonstrate the tragic effects of land-grabbing. She named her grim reflection of life The Landlords’ Game, but you probably know it ...

Elizabeth's father, James Magie, was a proprietor of the Macomb Journal Newspaper and an abolitionist who accompanied Abraham Lincoln in the late 1850s during the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

Elizabeth Magie, known to her friends as Lizzie, created the first version of Monopoly, originally called The Landlord’s Game, in the early 1900s as a way to reflect “the present system of ...

Buying real estate and driving other players into bankruptcy— that's how the world-famous board game Monopoly works. Elizabeth Magie Phillips, known as Lizzie Magie, was born in the USA in 1866 ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to exclude a player who can’t keep up.

Discover the untold story of Elizabeth Magie, the forgotten inventor of Monopoly, and her fight for recognition and equality.

The original game was patented in 1935 by a Pennsylvania man, though some historical references say a version cropped up years earlier by a woman named Elizabeth Magie. The game remains equally ...

It was created in 1902 by Elizabeth Magie who believed in fairer taxation and wanted a single tax on land ownership to replace all other taxes.

Elizabeth Magie, known to her friends as Lizzie, created the first version of Monopoly, originally called The Landlord’s Game, in the early 1900s as a way to reflect “the present system of ...