The board game “Monopoly” can be an awful lot of fun if you own Boardwalk and Park Place. Not quite so much, however, if you’re the one who lands on those spaces. “Monopoly” went on sale under that ...

MACOMB — Almost everyone has played Monopoly as it has ruled as one of the top-selling board games for more than a century, but very few people know the game's original creator and the long road ...

A young woman by the name of Elizabeth Magie created the game as a “practical demonstration of the present system of land-grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences.” Her inspiration was a ...

Magie’s creation, The Landlord’s Game, inspired the spinoff we know today. But credit for the idea long went to someone else. By Gavin Edwards This article is part of Overlooked, a series of ...

A small Illinois town claims to be the 'birthplace of Monopoly' as the board game's original inventor got the idea for the game there. Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Magie-Phillips was born in Macomb, roughly 85 ...

Carrie Goodman of Dover has spent many chilly nights behind bars, accompanied only by her loyal metal Scottish terrier – thanks to a streak of bad luck on the Monopoly board. That's a tough experience ...

As inflation has increased to a 40-year high, home prices and rent has been on the mind of many Americans. And it just so happens that wealth, rent and land are topics many people first learn about ...

The Switch version of Werewolf game-style social deduction adventure game Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! will launch on December 25 for 1,980 yen, publisher FINE and developer Shadow Glove ...

You may know Monopoly as one of the most popular classic board games in modern history, or as the game that means your family members all stop talking to each other for a couple of hours over ...