The Landlord’s Game

Let the games begin!   A visual timeline…

1902
L
andlord’s to Monopoly
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1903
L
andlord’s Game Arden, Delaware, USA

1904
L
andlord’s Game Patent Design #1
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1906
L
andlord’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
M
onopoly
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
Markete
d as Finance

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

1932
F
inance
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
M
onopoly
Atlantic City, NJ, USA As played by the Quakers with Atlantic city street names
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1933
M
onopoly Germantown, PA, USA
Charles Darrow copied monopoly from this game and sold it to Parker Brothers as his own invention!

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