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Did you know that the board game Monopoly was developed by an unemployed heating engineer called Charles Darrow and patented by him in 1935?

Darrow’s first version of the game was rejected by a toy manufacturer to whom he tried to sell it. That company rejected the game on the grounds it had 52 ‘faults’ with it and it would not catch on to become a big seller! Parker Brothers,the toy company did buy the game in the end.

It is reckoned that over 750 million have played Monopoly since it was patented by Darrow. Furthermore, Parker Brothers (now a Hasbro brand) prints $40 billion of Monopoly money every year,or twice the amount of real money printed by the US mint!

Now,and here’s the thing, Monopoly has continued to be developed since those early days. Indeed,although Darrow is credited with the game’s creation, he is perhaps more properly the person who developed the idea and made it the vast commercial success it is. Across the US,in the 1920s and 1930s, others had played a variation of the game. You,too,can join in the tradition of developing the most successful board game of all time(according to the Guinness Book of Records) and have your own personalized set produced for you! Create and name the properties you want in your own Monopoly game. Yes,you can do this,and change some other details, also! So,be a property tycoon.Go to the Firebox website for details by clicking here.