Sport and Games Atlas

How The Game Is Played
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Game

The Landlord's Game

Space and Territory Games

The Landlord's Game is a board game patented in 1904 by Elizabeth Magie. A realty and taxation game intended to educate players about Georgism, it is the inspiration for the 1935 board game Monopoly. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Origin Year
1903 2
Origin Year
1904 1
Game Type
Board game 1
Classification
Player Count
Two-Player 1
Player Count
Small Group (3-6 Players) 1
Sport
Game Type (category)
Board Game 1
Game Type (category)
Strategy Game 1
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wikipedia, The Landlord's Game
  • Introduction
    The Landlord's Game is a board game patented in 1904 by Elizabeth Magie
  • Infobox, players field
    2-4
View the Source
2. Wikidata: The Landlord's Game
Wikidata Q1550933, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source

Take a Related Quiz

Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.

View At A Past Year

Choose a year to see this entry's facts and connections as the atlas records them at that moment: what it held then, what it held instead, and what it had not yet adopted. Choose Present for the current record.