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 ...

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.

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 ...

Mary says no one knows why Elizabeth Magie’s patent was ignored. But Darrow got credit as the game’s inventor. The Monopoly board hasn’t changed much since the Parker Brothers game debuted.

Monopoly's inventor, Elizabeth Magie, would have sent herself straight to jail if she’d lived to see just how influential today’s twisted version of her game turned out to be.

Elizabeth Magie — a writer, inventor and feminist — was one of the pioneers of land-grabbing games. In 1904, she received a patent for the Landlord’s Game, which was meant to educate people ...

Monopoly, first called “The Landlord’s Game,” was invented by radical progressive Elizabeth Magie to demonstrate the moral evils of capitalism — and then Parker Brothers scooped it up and ...

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.