• Parker Brothers rejected the MONOPOLY® game when it was first presented to them in 1933, citing 52 fundamental playing flaws.
• World records are maintained for the longest game in a tree house (286) hours, underground (100 hours), in a bathtub (99 hours) and upside-down (36 hours).
• The longest MONOPOLY® game ever played was 1,680 hours long. That is 70 straight days!
• Escape maps, compasses and files were inserted into MONOPOLY® game boards smuggled into POW camps inside Germany during World War II. Real money for escapees was slipped into the packs of MONOPOLY® money.
• Over 5,120,000,000 little green houses have been “constructed” since the MONOPOLY® game was introduced in 1935.• Parker Brothers once sent an armored car with one million dollars of the MONOPOLY® game money to a marathon game in Pittsburgh that had run out of funds.
• In the 1970's, a Braille edition of the MONOPOLY® game was created for the visually impaired.
• A set made by Alfred Dunhill, that included gold and silver houses and hotels, sold for $25,000.
• The character locked behind the bars is called Jake the Jailbird. Officer Edgar Mallory sent him to jail.
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