Nov 27 2011 06:59 PM
Re: monopolozed
From Wikipedia:
| Each player is represented by a small metal token that is moved around the edge of the board according to the roll of two dice. The twelve playing pieces currently used are pictured at left (from left to right): [list][*]a wheelbarrow (1937b edition)[/*:m] [*]a battleship[/*:m] [*]a sack of money (1999–2007 editions)[/*:m] [*]a man on horseback[/*:m] [*]a car (racecar)[/*:m] [*]a train (Deluxe Edition only)[/*:m] [*]a thimble[/*:m] [*]a howitzer, better known as a cannon[/*:m] [*]an old style shoe[/*:m] [*]a Scottie dog[/*:m] [*]an iron[/*:m] [*]a top hat[/*:m] [*]A koala is also added in the Australian version of the game.[/*:m][/list:u] Many of the tokens were created by companies such as Dowst Miniature Toy Company, which made metal charms and tokens designed to be used on charm bracelets. The battleship and cannon were also used briefly in the Parker Brothers war game Conflict (released in 1940), but after the game failed on the market, the premade pieces were recycled into Monopoly usage.[19] Hasbro recently adopted the battleship and cannon for Diplomacy. Early localized editions of the standard edition (including some Canadian editions, which used the U.S. board layout) did not include pewter tokens but instead had generic wooden pawns identical to those in Sorry!.[20] Parker Brothers also acquired Sorry! in the 1930s. |
The mysterious nature of the tokens has to be part of the appeal. I mean, the game starts with statements like,
"I'm always the cannon, I want to be the dog!"
"I can't find the dog. You be the hat."
What? And yet the game has nothing to do with any of that.
