Titanic: The Board Game Titanic: The Board Game Titanic: The Board Game is a board-game designed by Sandra Gentry and Valen Brost and published by Universal Games in America and was available via license by Universal Games, in Great Britain and in France between 1998 and 1999. The game revolves around the sinking of RMS "Titanic". An updated version, "Titanic: The Board Game Centennial Edition", will be released by Universal Games, and marketed by Universal Toys, Inc., NV, and the John Hansen Co., in fall of 2012. The six players take the role of six fictitious passengers aboard the RMS "Titanic": Moving around the
History of the board game Monopoly History of the board game Monopoly The board game "Monopoly" has its origins in the early 20th century. The earliest known version of "Monopoly", known as "The Landlord's Game", was designed by an American, Elizabeth Magie, and first patented in 1904 but existed as early as 1902. Magie, a follower of Henry George, originally intended "The Landlord's Game" to illustrate the economic consequences of Ricardo's Law of Economic rent and the Georgist concepts of economic privilege and land value taxation. A series of board games was developed from 1906 through the 1930s that involved the buying and selling of land