Truth Squad

Monopoly history Truth Squad Report 2

(We scored one for the truth!)

      Hasbro pulled from its web site the false statement we challenged: " 1933 MONOPOLY is created by Charles Darrow in Atlantic City. " Actually, Darrow was the front man in the biggest swindle in game history.

       This is the correct answer to the question Hasbro poses on its History page: Monopoly came from the public domain folk game, named monopoly, invented by Elizabeth Maggie Phillips about 1908. In 1931, this game was transformed by some Atlantic City Quakers into Monopoly as we know it. They taught it to Darrow who added some copyrighted art work and began to sell it commercially in 1933, dishonestly claiming invention rights.

      Hasbro's predecessor knew all this by 1935 but chose to bury the truth in order to monopolize Monopoly with a fraudulent Darrow invention patent. Our game is the only original Atlantic City monopoly game, the one which was stolen and suppressed!