Michael George unpacks the hidden truth behind Monopoly's origin, revealing how Lizzie Magie created the game that inspired ...

Ironically, Charles Darrow and Parker Brothers amassed a fortune with Monopoly, even amidst a global economic crisis. Magie, who was already an elderly woman at the time, heard about it in the ...

In the 1930s, a man by the name of Charles Darrow created the modern look of Monopoly we know and play today, though he, like Magie, was turned down by Parker Borthers.

Monopoly players have cruised the streets of Atlantic City, N.J.–Baltic Avenue? I’ll buy it!–since Charles Darrow created the board in 1935. But a new version out this summer has the casino ...

If it is true that the devil finds work for idle hands to do, the No. i U. S. Mephistopheles is currently a mild little Philadelphian named Charles Darrow. Mr. Darrow’s claim to the title, based ...

How 'The Orange Loop' got its name. When Monopoly was created early in the early 1930s as a version of an older game — “The Landlord’s Game” — it used Atlantic City streets as the ...