Monopoly is fascinating – as long as you don’t try to play it

The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favourite Board Game Mary Pilon

Bloomsbury, pp.297, £20

I knew there had to be a point to Monopoly. The game itself is tedium made cardboard, the strongest known antidote to the will to the live. There is a 12 per cent chance that any given game of Monopoly will go on for ever (the other 88 per cent just feel like that).

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Taggedboard games, Book review — Monopoly, Charles Darrow, Lizzie Magie, Parker Brothers

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Monopoly is fascinating – as long as you don’t try to play it

I lose the will to live if forced to play Monopoly. But the story of the game’s invention, as related in Mary Pillon’s The Monopolists — now there’s a thing...

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