The Landlord’s Game

Let the games begin!   A visual timeline…

1902
Landlord’s to Monopoly
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1903
Landlord’s Game Arden, Delaware, USA

1904
Landlord’s Game Patent Design #1
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1906
Landlord’s Game
New York, NY, USA
Published version based on 1904 patent
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1913
Landlord’s Game
Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit
London, England
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1914
Monopoly
Joseph Buckwalter Royersford, PA, USA

1916
Monopoly
Altoona, PA, USA
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1920
Monopoly
Haverford College
Philadelphia, PA, USA
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1924
Landlord’s Game
Patent Design #2
Parker Brothers aquired in 1934, pretended it replaced patent #1 from 1904, that was in public domain.
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1927
Landlord’s Game
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
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1927
Auction Monopoly
Dan Layman
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Marketed as Finance

1932
Landlord’s Game
and Prosperity
Washington, D.C., USA
Based on 1924 patent

1932
Finance
Electronic Labratories
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Based on Auction Monopoly by Dan Layman 1927
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1932
Finance
Knapp Electric Co
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Sold to Parker Brothers in 1935
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1933
Monopoly
Atlantic City, NJ, USA As played by the Quakers with Atlantic city street names
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1933
Monopoly Germantown, PA, USA
Charles Darrow copied monopoly from this game and sold it to Parker Brothers as his own invention!

1939
Landlord’s Game
Parker Brothers repackaged Lizzie’s Landlord’s Game to look nothing like the game the created Monopoly…
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