About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 109. Chapters: Monopoly, Poker, Scrabble, Contract bridge, Risk, Acquire, Soldier of Fortune, Sverok, The Settlers of Catan, Bang!, Diplomacy, Gogo's Crazy Bones, List of bridge people, Doomtown, Puerto Rico, Kirby Super Star, Shadowfist, Monopoly: The Mega Edition, Illuminati, Kirby & the Amazing Mirror, Witchaven, Kirby: Squeak Squad, Bananagrams, Kensei: Sacred Fist, Power Grid, Kaiser Knuckle, Cosmic Carnage, Outlaws Of The Lost Dynasty, The Kung-Fu Master Jackie Chan, Blandia, Violence Fight, Antakshari, Multiplayer game, Survival Arts, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, Asura Blade: Sword of Dynasty, Riot City, Kirby's Dream Land 3, Burning Rival, Dragoon Might, Schmeiser Robo, Havic: The Bothering, Witchaven II, Power Athlete, Blood Warrior, Glasnost The Game, Dark Edge, Clag, Commune, Superior Soldiers, Hare and Tortoise, Knuckle Heads, Shogun Warriors, Ta o Taido, Pac-Man Party, Musashi no Ken - Tadaima Shugy Chu, Knuckle Bash, Primordial Soup, Pac-Man Battle Royale, Gang Wars, D. D. Crew, Infunitum, Pop Cutie! Street Fashion Simulation, Holosseum, Danish, Mystery Date, Tough Turf, Blood Feud in New York, Wide World, Palase, Inkognito. Excerpt: Monopoly is a board game published by Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro. The game is named after the economic concept of monopoly, the domination of a market by a single entity. The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1904, when a woman named Elizabeth (Lizzie) J. Magie Phillips created a game through which she hoped to be able to explain the single tax theory of Henry George (it was intended to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies). Her game, The Landlord's Game, was commercially published in 1924. In 1941, the British Secret Service had John Waddington Ltd., the licensed manufacturer of the game outside the U.S., create a special e...
