I’d be lying if I didn’t say that Monopoly has threatened to tear my family apart on more than one occasion while playing. Remarkably, the history of monopoly is a genuinely contradictory one. When you think of Monopoly today, the first things that come to mind are usually “Jail,” “Go,” and a rainbow of brightly colored property spaces.īut, did you know that Monopoly has a hidden past? The Monopoly that families today have learned to love and play is far different from the game’s origins.
