Finance (game) in 1935, Parker Brothers purchased "Finance" from Knapp for $10,000. Parker Brothers changed "Finance" so it was less similar to "Monopoly" and published it under the Finance Game Company name in 1935. Parker Brothers made additional changes in 1936 and published it with the Parker Brothers name. During 1935, Parker Brothers was developing its own version of "Monopoly", "Fortune", in case its deal with Darrow and the patent fell through. Almost an exact copy of "Monopoly", "Fortune" had only 10,000 copies made due to the deal with Darrow working out and was only published to keep the trademark to the
History of the board game Monopoly the demand for the game increased, Darrow contacted a printing company, Patterson and White, which printed the designs of the property spaces on square carton boards. Darrow's game board designs included elements later made famous in the version eventually produced by Parker Brothers, including black locomotives on the railroad spaces, the car on "Free Parking", the red arrow for "Go", the faucet on "Water Works", the light bulb on "Electric Company", and the question marks on the "Chance" spaces, though many of the actual icons were created by a hired graphic artist. While Darrow received a copyright on his game