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Charles Brace Darrow, right, (1889 – 1967) is often credited as the inventor of the board game Monopoly, published by Parker Brothers in 1935. However, the game’s origins trace back to The Landlord’s Game, created and patented by Elizabeth Magie in 1904 to illustrate economic inequality. Darrow encountered a modified version of Magie’s game, made changes, and sold it to Parker Brothers, who marketed him as the sole inventor. Magie’s foundational role was largely forgotten until later historical research brought it to light.
Parker Brothers also promoted Darrow as the sole inventor of the game, though later research has shown that Magie, Jesse Raiford, Ruth Hoskins, Louis and Ferdinand Thun, and Daniel Layman, among others, were responsible for many – or all – of the game's significant elements collectively. Darrow's contribution was the visual appearance of the game and the iconic cartoon-like illustrations on the corner spaces. He also standardized the number of houses and hotels (32 and 12, although in his oilcloth version it was 42 and 10).
From Wikipedia
Precursor to Monopoly
Magie patented The Landlord's Game was in 1904. The game was created to be a "practical demonstration of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences". She based the game on the economic principles of Georgism, demonstrating how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants.