It is now the beginning of the 20th century and our trip around the gameboard of history continues. By the early 1900s it has been 20 years since the first major board game companies have been founded and the industry is growing rapidly. When people talk about the one of the first American Board Game designers. The name Lizzie Maggie is the one often associated with it. She invented a game called The Landlord’s Game, which once is explained to you will sound very similar to a modern game known as monopoly. The game board consists of a couple of different kinds of places, there are 4 railroad squares, two utilities and a place that every time you passed it you gained 100 dollars. Maggie invented and patented the game in 1904. The game was designed to show how land grabbing worked and the cause and effect of it when people did purchase land.
The Land Lords game came out in 1904, just two years later a very popular card game came out in 1906 called Rook. Rook is something called a trick – taking game. That is a card or tile based game in which the game play of your “hand” is based around a series of rounds or units of played, called tricks. Each of these help determine the winner of the game. The game Rook is played with a standard deck of cards but where 1s,2s,3s and 4s are removed from the deck. It is a standard 4-person game. It is often referred to as the missionary poker.
“The Landlord’s Game.” BoardGameGeek, boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/29316/landlords-game.
“‘THE HISTORY OF THE LANDLORD’S GAME & MONOPOLY.’” “THE HISTORY OF THE LANDLORD’S GAME & MONOPOLY”, landlordsgame.info/.
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