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Monopoly is a board game published by Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro. The game is named after the economic concept ofmonopoly, the domination of a market by a single entity.

According to the BBC, Monopoly is a redesign of an earlier game "The Landlord's Game" first published by the Quaker and political activistElizabeth Magie. The purpose of that game was to teach people how monopolies end up bankrupting the many whilst giving extraordinary wealth to one or few individuals.^[2]

According to Hasbro, since Charles Darrow made the game in 1933 and sold it to Parker Brothers in 1935, more than one billion people have played the game, making it "the most played (commercial) board game in the world."^[3] The 1999 Guinness Book of Records cited Hasbro's previous statistic of 500 million people having played Monopoly.^[4] Games Magazine has inducted Monopoly into its Hall of Fame.^[5] The mascot for the game, known as Mr. Monopoly or Rich Uncle Pennybags, is a mustached man wearing a monocle and morning dress.

In 1998, Winning Moves procured the Monopoly license from Hasbro and created new UK city and regional editions with sponsored squares.

Winning Moves struggled to raise the sponsorship deals for the game boards, but did so eventually. A Nottingham Graphic Design agency, TMA, produced the visual design of the Monopolypackaging. Initially, in December 1998, the game was sold in just a few WHSmith stores, but demand was high, with almost fifty thousand games shipped in the 4 weeks leading up to Christmas. Winning Moves still produce new city and regional editions annually. Nottingham based designers Guppi have been responsible for the games' visual design since 2001.