The subject intrigued Professor Marcus du Sautoy, an acclaimed mathematician at the University of Oxford ... The creators of Monopoly intended it to be a fun family board game.

Buying real estate and driving other players into bankruptcy — that's how the world-famous board game Monopoly works. But its creator had a different mission: She dreamed of a world in which ...

and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favorite Board Game, and found that Monopoly’s story began decades earlier, with an all-but-forgotten woman named Lizzie Magie, an artist, writer ...

The game that features landing spots from Ohio's Amish Country is a spinoff of Monopoly ... specialty board games in 1984.