København (board game) København (board game) København is a board game by the company We Are Sailing. "København" is a direct spin-off from the classic board game "Monopoly" by Parker Brothers. The game is set in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark and uses the Danish krone as currency, with each player getting a starting sum of 25 thousand DKK. The game retains most of the basic rules of "Monopoly", with some changes. The main change is that when a player lands on an unclaimed property, he/she has three chances: In "København", players build Internet connections, parks and wind turbines instead of houses and
History of the board game Monopoly Brothers worldwide rights and releasing Darrow from legal costs that would be incurred in defending the origin of the game. In December 1935, Parker Brothers sent a copy of the game to Victor Watson, Sr. of Waddington Games. Watson and his son Norman tried the game over a weekend, and liked it so much that Waddington took the (then extraordinary) step of making a transatlantic "trunk call" to Parker Brothers, the first such call made or received by either company. This impressed Parker Brothers sufficiently that Waddington was granted licensing rights for Europe and the then-British Commonwealth, excluding Canada. Waddingtons