‘Hepeating’ might be a new word, but the concept it represents is tried and tested. Woman comes up with great idea. Man takes it and passes it off as his own. Man receives great acclaim. Woman doesn\u2019t make a fuss. Add in a dinner party ending in a broken friendship, a courtroom revelation, and escaping prisoners of war, and you have the story of one of the world\u2019s most popular board games, Monopoly.<\/p>\n
The story begins in 1903 in the United States. Elizabeth Magie came up with a board game called \u2018The Landlord\u2019s Game\u2019. She wanted to use it as an educational tool to teach people about the\u00a0single tax theory of Henry George<\/a>. He thought that land and natural resources belonged to the people, and they should rent it but never own it. And that governments should only charge tax on land, not on improvements, labour or profits. In the instructions that came with the game, Magie wrote:<\/p>\n The Landlord\u2019s Game had a board around which were various different properties, their purchase price and rental value. There were also utilities, and chance cards. Sound familiar? By Drawing for a Game Board, 01\/05\/1904. This is the printed patent drawing for a game board invented by Lizzie J. Magie. From the U.S. National Archives. Public domain. Source:\u00a0Brian0918<\/a>\u00a0Wikimedia Commons<\/a> She took out a patent in 1904 and self-published it in 1906. In 1909, she approached manufacturer\u2019s Parker Brothers, who rejected the game on the grounds that it was too complicated.<\/p>\n In 1932, a man called Charles Darrow went to dinner at the home of his friend, Charles Todd. After dinner, they played a few rounds of The Landlord\u2019s Game, in which Darrow took a great deal of interest. Not long after, Darrow took an idea to Parker Brothers and in 1935, they published the game Monopoly, complete, it is thought, with a spelling mistake copied directly from The Landlord\u2019s Game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Let the children once see clearly the gross injustice of our present land system and when they grow up, if they are allowed to develop naturally, the evil will soon be remedied.\u2019<\/cite><\/h4>\n
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![Wikimedia Commons<\/a> She took out a patent in 1904 and self-published it in 1906. In 1909, she approached manufacturer\u2019s Parker Brothers, who rejected the game on the grounds that it was too complicated.<\/p>\nHow\u00a0Charles\u00a0Darrow\u00a0came\u00a0upon\u00a0it<\/h4>\nIn 1932, a man called Charles Darrow went to dinner at the home of his friend, Charles Todd. After dinner, they played a few rounds of The Landlord\u2019s Game, in which Darrow took a great deal of interest. Not long after, Darrow took an idea to Parker Brothers and in 1935, they published the game Monopoly, complete, it is thought, with a spelling mistake copied directly from The Landlord\u2019s Game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"](\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:BoardGamePatentMagie.jpg\"){kind=link}