Articles Filed Under: Parker Brothers

Monopoly: The Hoosier Connection, Part 2

August 1, 2013 | by Al Hunter

The game of Monopoly was patented 80 years ago on July 30, 1933. The official Parker Brothers line is that the popular board game was solely created by an unemployed salesman and heating engineer named Charles Darrow. Last week in Part I, we learned that Hoosier Dan Layman claimed to … Read More

Monopoly: The Hoosier Connection (Part 1)

July 25, 2013 | by Al Hunter

Last winter, hundreds of thousands of voters in 180 countries elected a new Monopoly token that was added to the game earlier this year. The cat token won the race and replaced the iron, an original piece from 1933. By some estimates, more than 1 billion people have played Monopoly … Read More