MONOPOLY Board Game, Original Parker Brothers, 2004 Edition, Brand New Sealed MONOPOLY - BRAND NEW The real-estate game. Buy properties in Atlantic City. Collect sets of properties to allow improvements. Build houses and hotels. Collect rent from fellow players. Repeat as necessary until everyone else is bankrupt. Game includes: Gameboard, 11 Tokens, Title Deed Cards, Play Money, Bankers Tray, Chance Cards, Community Chest Cards, 32 Houses, 12 Hotels, 3 Dice, and Instructions. For Ages 8 to Adult and 2-8 Players. History of Monopoly The board game Monopoly has its origin in the early 20th century. The earliest known version, known as The Landlord's Game, was designed by an American, Elizabeth Magie, and first patented in 1904 but existed as early as 1902. Magie, a follower of Henry George, originally intended The Landlord's Game to illustrate the economic consequences of Ricardo's Law of economic rent and the Georgist concepts of economic privilege and land value taxation. A series of board games was developed from 1906 through the 1930s that involved the buying and selling of land and the development of that land. By 1933, a board game had been created much like the modern version of Monopoly sold by Parker Brothers and its related companies through the rest of the 20th century, and into the 21st. Several people, mostly in the Midwestern United States and near the East Coast of the United States, contributed to design and evolution.