Here's What I Say by Sue Moresi

Board Game Monopoly Gets Invented

December 5, 2025·14 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

A very progressive woman named Lizzie Magie (MA-gee) worked for years to develop a boardgame that would teach that we really don't want people to own property, and then charge enormous amounts of money to let others use it.  Although she did tons of work, (e.g. got a patent, then another (on an updated version), and another, etc.)   The rights to it were (basically) stolen from her, and the "thief" became a millionaire, while she did not.   Game maker Parker Brothers was involved.Lizzie was pretty much forgotten about until in 1973, a Professor Ansprach, having his own disputewith Parker Brothers (owned by Hasbro), found out about Lizzie and brought her situation up in court.

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