The charismatic feminist, actor, and poet who first designed Monopoly called it the Landlord’s Game, and intended to depict the evil of landowners.
, the actor Matthew Perry, of “Friends,” reveals that his parents spent the hours before his birth playing the board game Monopoly. It was an unhappy marriage, Perry writes, and they divorced when he was a baby. Monopoly probably wasn’t responsible, but it can’t have helped. Most aficionados agree that Monopoly, if not a bad game, is at the very least designed to embitter its players.
Most games invite players to best their opponents; few require such total humiliation as Monopoly. But in “Ruthless: Monopoly’s Secret History,” a new PBS documentary, we learn that this wasn’t always the case. The game was originally designed in 1903, by Lizzie Magie, a charismatic feminist, actor, and poet. At the time, most board games, like most novels for children, were viewed as vessels for moral instruction.
Darrow was stingy with the game’s backstory. In 1935, when he sold his version to the toy manufacturer Parker Brothers, he assured them, in writing, that it was entirely his invention. When company executives discovered that the game already existed in the public domain, they appealed to the legal system. The U.S.
Anspach’s mission nearly brought him to the brink of bankruptcy: he took out three mortgages on his house to pay legal costs, and turned down a settlement of more than half a million dollars from Parker Brothers. But, in 1983, the Supreme Court ruled in his favor, refusing the company’s trademark claim over his game. He released a book about the experience, “,” in 1998; one of its readers was Stephen Ives, a documentarian based in New York.
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