Names on the monopoly board game

The Monopoly Game is named after the economic concept of monopoly: the domination of a market by a single provider. Monopoly is a board game where players compete with each other buying, improving, and renting properties in Atlantic City. In the game, "Boardwalk" is the most expensive property to purchase and develop, but also yields the greatest rent payoff for its owner. To start the game, Players are initially allocated a stake of play paper money by "The Bank. Using a board consisting of 40 spaces and 28 properties on Atlantic City streets, players roll dice to advance clockwise around the spaces on the board.

If they move and land on a space containing an un-owned property, they can purchase it from "The Bank. If the property is already owned by another player, rent must be paid. Owners can increase the value of their properties, and therefor the rent they receive, by buying houses and hotels to place on them from "The Bank. A player must own all of a color group have a monopoly in order to place houses or hotels on them.

Players can also trade properties among each other. As the game advances, through both luck and the choices made, some players accumulate more properties and money, while others lose. Players who run out of money go bankrupt. As more players go bankrupt, the surviving player is the winner. Parker Brothers states that 45 minutes is about the right time for a game, but a game can go on for hours. The game can be played by from two to six people.

Each player is represented by a small metal token that is moved around the board according to the roll of two dice. Monopoly's metal tokens originated when Charls Darrow's niece suggested using charms from a charm bracelet as tokens.

You can buy UK Monopoly at Amazon. The Monopoly game is licensed in over countries. Many of these use their own unique version of the Monopoly board with local street names from that country. The Classic British version of Monopoly has a board based on streets in London.

The Scottish edition of Monopoly was launched in , featuring a board themed like the Scottish flag and Scottish towns and cities for each of the properties. There are also regional Scottish Monopoly versions based on places like Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee.

Squares on a Monopoly board are also known as spaces. Most of them are actually rectangle-shapes, but still, Monopoly squares is the familiar name by which many of us know them. After taking a closer look at the UK Monopoly board you can also view the locations of the Monopoly streets on a map of London.

A classic Monopoly board has 40 squares — 22 colored streets, 4 railroads, 2 utilities, 3 Chance squares, 3 Community Chest squares, 2 tax squares, 1 Go, 1 Go to Jail, 1 Jail incorporating Just Visiting , and 1 Free Parking space.