Group Travel Tour Operator and DMC for London

Monopoly ! – Shake the dice and see the sights on this tour that won’t break the bank! During this virtual ‘Monopoly’ game your guided coach tour will take you around some of London’s most iconic streets from Whitehall to Piccadilly. We will land on The Bank of England Museum, where you can learn about 300 years of England’s financial history. After a short walking tour of Covent Garden we will conclude our game at The London Eye, where you can enjoy spectacular panoramic views across London. On this tour everyone is a winner.

History of Monopoly

The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1903,when American anti-monopolist Lizzie Magie created a game called The Landlord’s Game that she hoped would explain the single-tax theory of Henry George as laid out in his book Progress and Poverty. She devised the key features of the game. It was intended as an educational tool to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies. She took out a patent in 1904. This shows the game’s characteristic features of a square circuit consisting of corner squares (one the starting point) and a series of intervening spaces where players went round and round until the game’s goal was reached. The railway stations were hazards, demanding a $5 fine. Players received money after completing each circuit. This design was different from other board games of the time. It is possible, but not definitely known, that she was inspired by a game called Zohn Ahl, played by the Kiowa which had a similar shaped board but different rules, and was described in a book about games in 1898.Her game was self-published beginning in 1906.