Shipping within the 48 continental United States costs just $10.00.The list above only includes the streets, not all of the squares on the board as there’s also stations, utilities, chance and community chest, the Go space, Free Parking, Go to Jail and Jail. We are not going to be making very many of these sets, since they are made by hand, and a lot of work is involved.Ĭomplete Darrow Round Board 1933 Style Reproduction Monopoly Game Set Now you can experience the “shock of the new” again, just as Monopoly players did in 1933. If anything, they are higher quality than the originals.ġ Darrow Round Game Board (33.5″ x 33.5″)ġ Darrow 1933 rules sheet (the rules as taught to Darrow by Charles Todd)Ħ colored wood tokens (similar to some Darrow used in some of his sets)Ģ8 Darrow Round Board style property cardsġ6 Chance cards and 20 Community Chest cards (with authentic wording taken from original early 1930s sets)ġ0 Hotels and 42 Houses (the number Darrow used in some of his oilcloth sets, made from baseboard molding)ġ930s Dime Store Style Scrip money as follows:Ī total of $13,218 (210 bills in all) which is plenty enough to play Monopoly, even with six players. Since the original Darrow sets only came with $9000 in play money, barely enough for a game with six players, this reproduction set comes with a bit more to make actually playing Monopoly with it a bit more practical.īoth the board and game box are completely made by hand. I want anyone who gets one of these to have the same sort of elation that buyers had in 1933, when this was all a brand new thing.

That’s part of what I hope to bring back with these reproduction sets.

Naturally, some of the experience of using them to actually play Monopoly is thereby lost.Īlso lost, over the years, is what I call the “shock of the new.” Long gone is the experience of opening up one of these classic game sets and using it for the first time. From that point forward, however, his boards were square.Īs actual early Monopoly items become older and older, more scarce and valuable, they take on the status of “holy relics” that you probably should treat with kid gloves. Celebrating the 83rd anniversary of the Darrow Round Board Monopoly set, first one made by Charles Darrow, we are now offering reproduction game sets made by The Folkopoly Press.Ĭharles Darrow’s first home-made game board was round, simply because his kitchen table was round.

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