What is the game Monopoly based on?

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🗓️ 22 January 2024

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0:00.0	Hey, Smarty Pants. I'm going to name eight objects. See if you can tell me what they have in common.
0:09.0	Ready? Here we go. A dog.
0:12.0	A battleship. A race car. A top hat like Abraham Lincoln used to wear.
0:23.0	For score and seven years ago.
0:25.0	A cat.
0:27.0	A penguin.
0:28.0	A T-Rex.
0:30.0	And a rubber ducky.
0:33.0	It's a rather odd assortment of objects, wouldn't you say?
0:38.0	What could they possibly have in common?
0:41.0	I'll give you another hint. Any one of those objects could lead you to
0:45.1	becoming very rich in one of the most popular board games of all time. You
0:50.8	probably guessed it by now. Of course we're talking about monopoly.
0:55.2	And whether your favorite game piece is the race car, the battleship, or the thimble.
1:01.3	Nope, they got rid of the Thimble in 2017.
1:05.0	What's a Thimble?
1:07.0	Monopoly has become the world's most popular real estate game,
1:11.0	despite being one of the longest games to play.
1:14.0	But who invented Monopoly?
1:15.8	How did the properties get their names?
1:18.0	And how have the game pieces and rules changed over the years?
1:22.0	It's time for another whiff of history and science on
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