Comments on: War-opoly: How History’s Most Popular Board Game Helped Defend The Free World

By: phill

phill — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:00:20 +0000

This is great stuff. I really enjoy stories like this!

By: Game Music

Game Music — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:31:44 +0000

I’ll trade you Broadway for a get out of jail free card

By: Hae

Hae — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:30:00 +0000

My granddad escaped those prisons with the board game. He lived to tell the tale.

By: RPG

RPG — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:32:00 +0000

*sigh* if only life were a bit more like Monopoly! Get out of Jail FTW

By: MMO

MMO — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:24:00 +0000

Life needs a get out of jail free card. That would be awesome.

By: Omer

Omer — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Good post, you linked two totally irrelevant things lol

By: George Giddens

George Giddens — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:12:00 +0000

Can you furnish me with the biography and current address,phone number,& email of the Brian McMahon who wrote this article? There are many persons with the same name.

By: nikki S

nikki S — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:28:00 +0000

I just bought a WWII version of Monopoly from alocal charity shop – used to love this game as a kid. Found it facinating enough that game tokens were made of cardboard etc and it came with a spinner instead. In the version I got though someone has also made their own dice out of wood. Just read all this and double checked my board but hasnt got a red dot at Free Parking! From reading the other articles on web I believe this could have happened with some versions of the game!

By: Kevin in GA

Kevin in GA — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:29:00 +0000

There would be nothing uncoded to show safe houses. Most officers and/or pilots would have to memorize a few safe houses/locations from the area they would be in or flying over but would have a silk map of the area. Don’t be to quick to blow this one off. A lot off other things had items hid inside like chess sets and playing cards. Google WWII escape and see what you find.

By: jsubed

jsubed — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:37:20 +0000

Theres a line from “The Great Escape” that comes to mind. “Its so stupid, it’s positively brilliant.”
And why not keep something that worked so well secret when at the time war against Russia seemed imminent.