1900s board games
1930s board games
1960s board games
Changes Between Games
100
The game pictured:
What is the Landlord's Game?
100
The game pictured:
What is Monopoly?
100
The game pictured:
What is the Game of Life?
100
The game that Monopoly and the Game of Life originally evolved from.
What is the Landlord's Game?
200
The game the following quote applies to:
“It was the early 1900s, and she wanted her board game to reflect her progressive political views – that was the whole point of it… She began speaking in public about a new concept of hers, which she called the Landlord’s Game. It is a practical demonstration of the present system of land-grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences" (The Secret History of Monopoly: The Capitalist Board Games Leftwing Origins, The Guardian).
What is the Landlord's Game?
200
The game the following quote applies to:
“One night in late 1932, a Philadelphia businessman named Charles Todd and his wife, Olive, introduced their friends Charles and Esther Darrow to a real-estate board game they had recently learned… The two couples sat around the board, enthusiastically rolling the dice, buying up properties and moving their tokens around” (The Secret History of Monopoly: The Capitalist Board Games Leftwing Origins, The Guardian).
What is Monopoly?
200
The game the following quote applies to:
"Players... ride the highway of Life, earning money, buying furniture, and having pink and blue plastic babies. Along the way, there are good patches: “Adopt a Girl and Boy! Collect Presents!” And bad: “Jury Duty! Lose Turn.” Whoever earns the most money wins." (The Meaning of Life, The New Yorker).
What is the Game of Life?
200
The game that looks similar to the Landlord’s Game, but shows clear differences in currency, board design, and includes the addition of property cards. Instead of the contradictions of societal commentary that the Landlord’s Game contained, it focuses on only the capitalist aspects.
What is Monopoly?
300
The game that was designed as a commentary on the society of that time, and how commonplace competition for wealth was. The game was designed to be contradictory, where gaining wealth could benefit all or just benefit one person while harming the others. This contradiction was meant to showcase the opposition between these two ideals in the society of the time.
What is the Landlord's Game?
300
The game that focuses on building wealth and collecting properties at the expense of others to win. It was designed as a demonstration of the evils of capitalism in society.
What is Monopoly?
300
The game that was designed to try to give moral advice to players through the random event cards that often reward the player if they do the right thing.
What is the Game of Life?
300
The game with evident inspirations from Monopoly in the currency, cards, and way of winning that involves collecting the most money. However, it discards the square patterned spaces that the player goes around multiple times for a winding path that the player only goes through once, and the dice are forgone for a spinner.
What is the Game of Life?