Monopoly Was Supposed to Be a Warning
Monopoly wasn’t built to celebrate capitalism, it was a warning against it. Lizzie Magie patented it in 1904 with two… Read More
Monopoly Was Supposed to Be a Warning
The Games We Play
Monopoly Money vs. Real Money
On the 2002 South African Monopoly board, buying Clifton, the game’s most expensive property, cost R40,000. In real life, a… Read More
The Pokemon worth more than a Picasso
In February 2026, a single Pokémon card, a PSA Gem Mint 10 “Pikachu Illustrator,” sold at auction for $16.492 million,… Read More
Fluent in Winning
New Zealand Scrabble player Nigel Richards won the French World Championship in 2015 after studying the French word list for… Read More
Bigger Than the Universe
In the 1950s. There are an estimated 10¹²⁰ possible chess games – far more than the roughly 10⁸⁰ atoms in… Read More