monopoly board game?

Wilmer Skidmore: that putting money on the board i dont think its a rule only a thingy...when someone lands on those pay 200 or 10% or somethin similar they put that in the middleand whenever someone lands one the free parking they get all the money that was in the middleits a little game to make it more exciting...Show more

Violette Vanek: I'm not too sure I think that all the money that somebody has to pay aside from birthdays and buying houses goes in the middle and whoever lands on free parking gets the money......or something like that..........Show more

Estrella Northway: In my family we never actually put any money in the middle of the board. Though I was playing with my friend once and she did when she landed on free parking or something she got money.I've read the rules over and you don't ever have to put any money in the middle of the boardI do however have the MONOPOLY JUNIOR where u have to pay money when you go to lunch....but I don't think that! has anything to do with your answer. lol...Show more

Sharie Sommerville: I don;'t believe any versions actually has a rule that says you put any money in the middle. It's always a house rule in my game. Anything that would be paid to the 'bank' (taxes, chance and CC cards, 50 for jail, etc) would go in the pot. When a person lands on Free Parking, they would get all the money in there at the time. It get's crazy if no one lands on it for a while, we've had over $5000 in there.

Randa Hessell: In the standard Monopoly rules, there is never an occasion to put money in the middle of the board.However, there are rule variants that direct the payments to the bank (such as income tax, luxury tax and others) to be kept at the Free Parking space, so that whoever lands on Free Parking gets whatever has been placed there so far.These rule variants depend on who you're playing with, so there should be an agreement before the start of the game what variants will be foll! owed....Show more

Emile Okafor: Greetings! By the class! ic rules, no money is supposed to be on the board, period. This is also disallowed in major tournaments.If you want money on the board, then you are making your own rules. When I did it, I put the taxes and payments of both Chance and Community chest in the middle with $500.00, which is collected by the person who lands on Free Parking.Remember, what you put in the middle are your own rules and should be negotiated BEFORE anyone rolls for first position.Hope that helps. Take care....Show more

Valentine Willinger: When you pay taxes, such as the cards tell you. Free Parking space is where you collect.

Mitzie Clough: When you pay taxes, such as the cards tell you. Free Parking space is where you collect.and when it is like taxes

Guy Bonamico: The history of Monopoly can be traced back to the early 1900s. In 1904, a Quaker woman named Elizabeth (Lizzie) J. Magie Phillips created a game through which she hoped to be able to explain the single tax theory of! Henry George (it was supposed to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies). Her game, The Landlord's Game, was commercially published a few years later. Other interested game players redeveloped the game and some made their own sets. Lizzie herself patented a revised edition of the game in 1924, and similar games were published commercially. By the early 1930s, a board game named Monopoly was created much like the version of Monopoly sold by Parker Brothers and its parent companies throughout the rest of the 20th century and into the 21st. The Parker Brothers' version was created by Charles Darrow. Several people, mostly in the U.S. Midwest and near the U.S. East Coast, contributed to the game's design and evolution. In, 1941, the British Secret Service had John Waddington Ltd., the licensed manufacturer of the game outside the U.S., create a special edition for World War II prisoners of war held by the Nazis.[4] Hidden inside these games! were maps, compasses, real money and other objects useful for escaping! . They were distributed to prisoners by the International Red Cross. By the 1970s, the game's early history had been lost (and at least one historian has argued that it was purposely suppressed - see below), and the idea that it had been created solely by Charles Darrow had become popular folklore. This was stated in the 1974 book The Monopoly Book: Strategy and Tactics of the World's Most Popular Game, by Maxine Brady, and even in the instructions of the game itself. As Professor Ralph Anspach fought Parker Brothers and its then parent company, General Mills, over the trademarks of the Monopoly board game, much of the early history of the game was "rediscovered." Because of the lengthy court process, and appeals, the legal status of Parker Brothers' trademarks on the game was not settled until the mid-1980s. The game's name remains a registered trademark of Parker Brothers, as do its specific design elements. Parker Brothers' current corporate parent, Hasbro, again acknowl! edges only the role of Charles Darrow in the creation of the game. Anspach published a book about his researches, called The Billion Dollar Monopoly Swindle (and republished as Monopolygate), in which he makes his case about the purposeful suppression of the game's early history and development....Show more