Mark Mason

Dirty dealing across the board

I lose the will to live if forced to play Monopoly. But the story of the game’s invention, as related in Mary Pillon’s The Monopolists — now there’s a thing...

  • The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favourite Board Game

    Mary Pilon

    Bloomsbury, pp. 297

I knew there had to be a point to Monopoly. The game itself is tedium made cardboard, the strongest known antidote to the will to the live. There is a 12 per cent chance that any given game of Monopoly will go on for ever (the other 88 per cent just feel like that).

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