26Anti-Monopoly
Anti-Monopoly is a game designed to show how hurtful monopolies can be to a free-enterprise system. The board starts off looking like a game of Monopoly had just been completed, and the aim is to return the board to the free market system.
27. The board game Stratego was invented by a Dutch Jew for his two children during World War 2. The family was eventually sent to a concentration camp but luckily survived.
28. The Strategy board game "Diplomacy" was John F. Kennedy's and Henry Kissinger's favourite game. In the game, set in the years leading up to World War 1, each player controls the forces of a major European power, and players spend much of their time forming and betraying alliances with other players.
29. There is a Monopoly board game worth $2,000,000. Its pieces are made out of 23-carat gold; and rubies and sapphires are attached to the chimneys of houses/hotels.
30. There is a board game named Train where players load tiny figures into boxcars and race. Once a player gets to the end, they are horrified when it is revealed that the destination is Auschwitz.
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31The Game of Life
The original version of "The Game of Life" board game, made in 1860 by Milton Bradley, had the possible outcomes of suicide, poverty, and ruin.
32. Cribbage was a favorite game of submarine crews during World War 2, and the cribbage board once owned by Admiral Dick O’Kane has been handed down to the oldest submarine in the Pacific fleet for the last 75 years.
33. There is a board game named Pandemic Legacy that takes one year to finish and can only be played once because the board and the equipment is physically damaged by the end.
34. In Sierra Leone, before getting a driver's license, you have to buy a board game called "The Drivers' Way" and play it at least once. The game involves rolling stoplight-themed dice and moving models of classic cars around a board, together with answering questions about the country’s road laws.
35. The American board game "Chutes and Ladders" is a bastardization of an ancient Indian game called Moksha Patam. The game's original theming represented the Hindu soul's arduous path to liberation from the cycle of reincarnation and has been played by the same ruleset for nearly 2,000 years.
