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The Landlord's
Game
Landlord's
Game Faithful Edition
A faithful recreation of Lizzie J. Magie's Landlord's Game — the radical 1904 board game that became, by way of a long and peculiar journey, the ancestor of Monopoly.
We have rebuilt it for the modern desk: original rules, original board, original two-rule-set design (the Single Tax set, and the Monopolist set). Hot-seat for up to six. Online play across the living room or across the world. Hand-set typography. Tactile sound design. None of the slot-machine flourishes — only the game as Lizzie meant it to be played.
- macOS
- Windows
- Linux
- Players
- Two to six
- Time
- 45–90 min
- Modes
- Single Tax · Monopolist · Hot-seat · Online
- Status
- In playtest, lovingly.
Notes from
the Workshop
- 01 May 03, 2026
The Anspach Decade
Part three of our history of Lizzie Magie's Landlord's Game. How a Berkeley economics professor who designed a game called Anti-Monopoly accidentally spent the next ten years in court — and, in losing his sabbatical, his savings, and most of his health, finally dragged the truth about Monopoly out from under forty years of corporate myth.
Read entry - 02 Apr 26, 2026
The Atlantic City Quakers
Part two of our history of Lizzie Magie's Landlord's Game. How a teacher named Ruth Hoskins arrived at a Friends school in 1929, redrew Lizzie's board with the streets outside her window, and quietly invented the version every Monopoly player since has been playing.
Read entry - 03 Apr 12, 2026
The Landlord's Game — A History
A century-and-change ago, a stenographer in Maryland sat down to make a board game that would teach her neighbours about land economics. It became, by way of theft and a long lawsuit, the best-selling board game on Earth. Here is what actually happened.
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