Socialism: The Game (fan expansion for Monopoly)
2016

Expansion of

Monopoly

Socialism: The Game (fan expansion for Monopoly)

2-6

players

60

min

5+

age

Categories

Expansion for Base-game
Fan Expansion

Mechanics

Commodity Speculation
Trading

Community Tags

Description

Way back during the depths of the Great Depression in 1934, patriotic American and underemployed heater salesman Charles B. Darrow literally took an idea he'd refined to Parker Brothers, who literally bought it. That idea was the board game Monopoly, and Darrow – who'd claimed he'd invented it himself – became the world's first millionaire game designer/capitalist. But he didn't invent it – he only expanded upon versions of traditional games that had been played for generations. In other words...