![]() "She patents her game in 1904, and it spreads as a folk game." Pilon said. So how did the game get away from her? According to Pilon, that's where it gets complicated. She called her square board, complete with a "Go to Jail" space, The Landlord's Game. "So she makes a board game as a teaching tool to try and teach about the evils of monopoly." "The Carnegies, the Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans of the world, there's an amount of wealth being created in this country, it was concentrated among a few people that we had never really seen before," Pilon said. The truth Pilon discovered is that a woman, Elizabeth Magie, invented the game in 1903 as a protest against big money of the Gilded Age. ![]() ![]() "I, like a lot of people, had heard this story that a man invented it, his name was Charles Darrow, sells it to Parker Brothers, rags to riches, Cinderella story, all is great. "I, like most people, thought that Monopoly was invented during the Great Depression," Pilon said.
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