The man who took credit for the board game Monopoly did not invent it. As the game’s owners trumpet its 80th anniversary, we examine its origins, which go back to an anti-capitalist suffragette ...

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 ...

Charles Darrow, a US citizen, invented Monopoly in 1931, during the Great Depression. Out of work, Darrow earned a living inventing puzzles and games, to sell to toy-makers.

“The Monopoly game as we know it was invented by Charles Darrow, who sold his idea to Parker Brothers in 1935,” a Hasbro spokeswoman told The Times on Tuesday.

Professor Ralph Anspach, inventor of a game called "Anti-Monopoly" is locked in a legal battle with General Mills over his claim that the company stole the game "Monopoly" from the public.

EG November 28, 2018 06:00 am. One Eric to Another, My sincere apologies for my gross “oversimplification” of the boardgaming industry. My primary aim was to point out that games like Monopoly ...

Elizabeth Magie invented a game called The Landlord's Game in 1903 as a protest against big-money corruption during the Gilded Age. It was a square board with a Go to Jail box in the corner.

Ms. Monopoly will be available to consumers mid September. A new version of Monopoly celebrating female entrepreneurs is hitting shelves this month. The board game, titled "Ms. Monopoly ...

Lizzie Magie's role in the creation of Monopoly was almost lost to history, but the jokes about Ms. Monopoly are a chance to reflect on the feminist inventor's Landlord's Game.