Monopoly 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 Landlord's Game, the predecessor to Monopoly, was originally designed with a circular board.

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.

Lizzie Magie invented The Landlord's Game to show how monopolies crush ordinary people. Parker Brothers bought it for $500, stripped her name, and renamed it Monopoly. It became the best-selling board game in history, making billions. She died almost forgotten.

Christopher Hutton, a British MI9 spy, hid real escape kits inside Monopoly sets sent to Allied POW camps in WWII. He chose Waddingtons - the only UK firm that made Monopoly AND printed on silk - to hide silk maps, a compass, a file, and real foreign cash inside each box. A red dot on Free Parking told captured RAF pilots which sets held the tools.