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A Monopoly: D-Day Edition feels like it should be a throwaway Simpsons joke, like something Grampa Simpson might have owned. But Monopoly: D-Day exists – it's a real edition of the board game that you can buy and play, right now. D-Day is an important historical event in which Allied troops first stepped onto the shores of Normandy, France, in the hopes of helping to defend the country against an aggressive invasion by Nazi Germany during World War II. This is considered the beginning of the battle to liberate France from occupation and destruction, a fight that would claim the lives of millions of civilians and soldiers; the Normandy landings alone would see thousands killed. Of course, there isn’t really much difference between Monopoly: HM Queen Elizabeth Edition and any standard version of the classic board game: even the tokens are exactly the same as you’d find in any normal edition. However, hilariously enough, you can just outright buy the United Kingdom and at a bargain price of only 200 Monopoly dollars! Which is probably an accurate estimate considering the state of the country post-Brexit. There was one obvious outlet. At the turn of the 20th century, board games were becoming increasingly commonplace in middle-class homes. In addition, more and more inventors were discovering that the games were not just a pastime but also a means of communication. And so Lizzie set to work. And so the beloved Darrow legend lives on. It only makes sense. The Darrow myth is a “nice, clean, well-structured example of the Eureka School of American industrial legend,” the New Yorker’s Calvin Trillin wrote in 1978. “If Darrow invented the story rather than the game, he may still deserve to have a plaque on the Boardwalk honoring his ingenuity.” It’s hard not to wonder how many other unearthed histories are still out there –stories belonging to lost Lizzie Magies who quietly chip away at creating pieces of the world, their contributions so seamless that few of us ever stop to think about their origins. Commonly held beliefs don’t always stand up to scrutiny, but perhaps the real question is why we cling to them in the first place, failing to question their veracity and ignoring contradicting realities once they surface.
MI6 have received a secret message from a mysterious source. A 00 agent has been eliminated and it is up to James Bond and his allies to travel the world to identify the culprit, the weapon used to defeat the agent and the location in which the crime took place. Play as 007, Moneypenny, Q, M, Tanner or Felix Leiter and use your skills to solve the mystery. With locations, villains and six bespoke weapon tokens from over 50 years of 00 action, it?s your chance to take on a mission. Travel around the board and ask the right questions to eliminate evidence. Was it Rosa Klebb with the Golden Bullet in Casino Royale? Or could it have been Xenia Onatopp in Atlantis with the Mechanical Arm? The answer is For Your Eyes Only. Grab a SPECTRE card for a tactical advantage or potential penalty, and keep those case notes out of sight of your fellow agents, as you compete to be the first to solve the crime in this thrilling new version of the classic mystery game, CLUEDO. To Elizabeth Magie, known to her friends as Lizzie, the problems of the new century were so vast, the income inequalities so massive and the monopolists so mighty that it seemed impossible that an unknown woman working as a stenographer stood a chance at easing society’s ills with something as trivial as a board game. But she had to try. This edition of Cluedo will entertain the whole family as you decide: who was replaced, what weapon was used, and where is the Infernal Puzzle Box? You might be surprised to learn there are multiple editions of Monopoly themed around fishing. Possibly the strangest of these fishy editions is Monopoly: Bass Fishing Edition, namely because it is scratching such a specific itch within an already very specific itch. I am aware that bass fishing is a hobby – one that I’m sure many people enjoy – but is it really such a well-liked hobby that it needed its own edition of Monopoly celebrating it?Relive the classic film with this new edition of the classic property game. Christmas is all around you in this custom edition of MONOPOLY that will have you collecting and trading wondrous Love Actually landmarks. The descendant of Scottish immigrants, Lizzie had pale skin, a strong jawline and a strong work ethic. She was then unmarried, unusual for a woman of her age at the time. Even more unusual, however, was the fact that she was the head of her household. Completely on her own, she had saved up for and bought her home, along with several acres of property. It was to little avail. Much to Lizzie’s dismay, the other two games that she invented for Parker Brothers, King’s Men and Bargain Day, received little publicity and faded into board-game obscurity. The newer, Parker Brothers version of the Landlord’s Game appeared to have done so as well. And so did Lizzie Magie. She died in 1948, a widow with no children, whose obituary and headstone made no mention of her game invention. One of her last jobs was at the US Office of Education, where her colleagues knew her only as an elderly typist who talked about inventing games. 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. As the two couples sat around the board, enthusiastically rolling the dice, buying up properties and moving their tokens around, the Todds were pleased to note that the Darrows liked the game. In fact, they were so taken with it that Charles Todd made them a set of their own, and began teaching them some of the more advanced rules. The game didn’t have an official name: it wasn’t sold in a box, but passed from friend to friend. But everybody called it ‘the monopoly game’.
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The enduring legacy of Love Actually is baffling. It’s easily worse than fellow Richard Curtis and Hugh Grant movie collaborations Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, yet Love Actually continues to find its way into the Christmas lexicon every year. Entire essays could – and have – been written about its toxic portrayal of ‘romance’ and it might as well serve as a guidebook for entitled creeps everywhere. Another weird element of Monopoly: Bass Fishing Edition is that players can still go to jail. Whatever arrestable offenses are these bass fishers doing? Are there, in fact, numerous illegal activities associated with bass fishing? Is the hobby an elaborate ruse to cover genuine, actual crimes? Monopoly: Bass Fishing Edition may have blown off the lid of one of the world’s greatest conspiracies and we’ve been in blind ignorance until now. The player tokens in Monopoly: Love Actually Edition are banal – why is there a CD player and a tambourine, for Christ’s sake? - and the box cover is astonishingly low-effort. However, nothing can prepare you for the baffling awfulness of its game board.
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