How History’s Most Popular Board Game Helped Defend The Free World
By ctrymuziklvr
@ctrymuziklvr (11057)
United States
April 14, 2008 12:12pm CST
This is a new one on me but when I read the article I could see how it would work:During World War II, the British secret service hatched a master plan to smuggle escape gear to captured Allied soldiers inside Germany. Their secret weapon? Monopoly boxes. The original notion was simple enough: Find a way to sneak useful items into prison camps in an unassuming form. But the idea to use Monopoly came from a series of happy coincidences, all of which started with maps.
There is a lot more interesting information on this to be read at:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/10021
Have you ever heard about this or is it news to you too?
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
14 Apr 08
This is very interesting. I just watched a move about how some things were smuggled into the Pow camps. But it wasn't the monopoly game. It had walnuts with compasses in them and records with the silk maps in the middle. I find this kind of thing very interesting. Myself I don't care for the game. It lasts too long.
@rosettaresearch (1285)
• United States
14 Apr 08
How cool. I never knew this. I love Monopoly. I love it more now knowing this.
