Game Facts

More Monopoly money is printed each year than real US dollars. Parker Brothers (now Hasbro) prints about $30 billion in Monopoly money annually, while the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces around $500 million to $1 billion in new currency.

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.

The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub lasted 99.5 hours!

The longest Monopoly game in history lasted 70 straight hours.

In Monopoly, the character locked behind the bars is called Jake the Jailbird. Officer Edgar Mallory sent him to jail.

There's a video game called "Lose/Lose" that deletes a random file on your computer every time you kill an enemy.

GTA V achieved $1 billion in sales just 3 days after its launch.

Penn & Teller created "Desert Bus" for their unreleased 1995 Sega CD game "Smoke and Mirrors" as a satirical response to critics of violent video games. The game requires you to drive a bus from Tucson to Las Vegas in real time—8 hours of nothing but straight desert highway—earning just 1 point upon completion.

In 2013, Candy Crush Saga was earning approximately $850,000 per day, making it one of the most profitable mobile games ever created.