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A history of games

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The Monopoly Game

In nint 24, lizzie macgee took out a second patent for a revised version of the game. She actually developed two sets of rules, didn't she? This one close to the monopoly we play to day, and an anti monopolius one. It's not surprising that it spreads among like a hoosehoo of left wing america. You now, it's played as a fog gamefamilies made their own boards using wood or oilcloth and whatever was at hand, like buttons or thimbles, as tokens. The idea spread like wildfirm in the way that things would have gone vira long before the internet.

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