Well who hasn't heard of Monopoly? This Parker Brothers classic board game was the brainchild of developer and inventor Charles Darrow, who, in around 1930, created this fun game of strategy and chance after reminiscing with some friends about their favorite summer vacation destination as children, Atlantic City, New Jersey. Darrow, who was out of work like any other Americans during the Great Depression, was said to have penned the great idea for the game one evening on his kitchen table's tablecloth.

The basic goal in Monopoly games is to become the richest player on the board by dealing in real estate that involves buying, selling, renting and negotiating the property and with a little luck from the dice

The Monopoly Board Game comprises the board, eight Monopoly tokens, two dice, both chance and community chest cards, property or deed cards and Monopoly money. There will be also a monopoly rules booklet. Monopoly money is a type of money used in the game. The currency used is smaller, one-sided and in different colors.
The Monopoly game board consists of forty spaces containing twenty-eight properties twenty-two colored streets, four railroads and two utilities, three chance spaces, three community chest spaces, a Luxury Tax space, an Income Tax space and the four corner squares: 'GO', (In) Jail/ Just Visiting, Free Parking and Go to Jail

Monopoly was patented in 1935 by inventor Charles Darrow and was released by Parker Brothers. The game was actually 1 of a number of variants in existence at the time, all of which dated back to an earlier, 1904 game made by Elizabeth J. Magie, called The Landlord's Game. It's worth pronouncing correctly the brand name of the creative mind behind the most played and successful proprietary game of all time. Magie was a trusted and proponent of the Single Tax put forth by some famous author Henry George. The game was made and designed to show how the Single Tax would ever work, players could choose to play under some regular rules or alternate Single Tax rules.

The popularity of Monopoly game can be judged by the fact that Hasbro, the toy and board game manufacturer, organizes a worldwide Monopoly tournament. The first Monopoly World Championship took place in Grossinger' s Resort in New York in November 1973. It was telecast by ESPN. The current world champion is Bjorn Halvard Knappskog. He won the championship in Las Vegas in October, 2009

Who would have thought a game about banking, taxes, real estate, utilities and railroads would become one of the best board games. It is a gaming's modern classics. It seems an unlikely great success story to many, but Monopoly beat the odds, and is now considered as one of the world's best-known and loved board games. Every child one way or another played this game and became a part of gaming history. Simply fun and classic game play.