Easy Money, also called The Game of Easy Money, is a property trading board game that the Milton Bradley Company introduced in 1935. Like Monopoly it descends from The Landlord's Game: players move around a board, draw cards, buy properties and build houses to raise rents. Milton Bradley issued it after Charles Darrow had shown Monopoly to the company and been turned down, and Parker Brothers then forced it to license the patents and to change the game in a 1936 New Improved Edition. It differs from Monopoly in several ways: a player needs one street on each of the four sides of the board before improving, utilities are auctioned by the bank, rents are printed on the board, houses are colour coded to their owners, and there is no jail or free parking. A game ends when a player cannot pay what is owed, and the richest remaining player wins. A 1974 edition multiplied all sums by ten, and Winning Moves reissued the 1950s version in 2005.
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introduced by Milton Bradley Company in 1935
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