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For Macro Mondays "Tradition" theme - playing board games at Christmas time.
I was delighted to find our old family Monopoly set last weekend with its original metal game pieces. I thought it had been discarded many years ago. It brought back so many memories of family times together.
"I've been on a roll, where have you been?
Real protective with my soul, where you been?
Is your GPS even on, where you been?
Matter of fact, I don't even care where you been"
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Skin Teresa by Mila
Hair Stella by Doux
Cotton (Shorts, Top, Boots and Socks) Set by Scandalize @ Vanity
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Blog Post:
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The race car player piece in a monopoly game, For Macro Mondays theme "Member’s Choice: Games or Game Pieces",
For the challenge ''Footwear'' in the Something for the Weekend group.
''I'm a jeans, T-shirt, boots kind of guy.'' Diego Klattenhoff
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If it weren't for Macro Mondays, I wouldn't have noticed the tiny markings or engravings on the bottoms of these shoes or boots. .
Because of my asthma inhaler this morning, you might notice shaky drops of water. Not one of which reached the dandelion seed head I'd tried to add for size.
My sister gave me a long necklace with multiple Monopoly and Clue game pieces tied to long silken thread. The pieces come from the two games but were painted. If you peer closely, you can see the paint chipping from the shoe tips. (We can't find the Monopoly game in one of the moving boxes...yet.)
Thanks for looking and peering closely at these "board game pieces" for #MacroMondays. Width of photo: 5cm / 2 inches, approximately.
This boardgame guides me through my hole life - Monopoly ! Monopoly is a board game published by Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro. Players compete to acquire wealth through stylized economic activity involving the buying, renting, and trading of properties using play money, as players take turns moving around the board according to the roll of the dice. The object of the game is to own every piece of property by driving the other players into bankruptcy. The game is named after the economic concept of monopoly, the domination of a market by a single entity.
The history of Monopoly can be traced back to the early 1900s. In 1904, a Quaker woman named Elizabeth (Lizzie) J. Magie Phillips created a game through which she hoped to be able to explain the single tax theory of Henry George (it was supposed to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies). Her game, The Landlord's Game, was commercially published a few years later. Other interested game players redeveloped the game and some made their own sets. Lizzie herself patented a revised edition of the game in 1904, and similar games were published commercially. By the early 1930s, a board game named Monopoly was created much like the version of Monopoly sold by Parker Brothers and its parent companies throughout the rest of the 20th century and into the 21st. The Parker Brothers' version was created by Charles Darrow. Several people, mostly in the U.S. Midwest and near the U.S. East Coast, contributed to the game's design and evolution.
In 1941 the British Secret Service had John Waddington Ltd., the licensed manufacturer of the game outside the U.S., create a special edition for World War II prisoners of war held by the Nazis. Hidden inside these games were maps, compasses, real money, and other objects useful for escaping. They were distributed to prisoners by the International Red Cross.
By the 1970s, the game's early history had been lost (and at least one historian has argued that it was purposely suppressed - see below), and the idea that it had been created solely by Charles Darrow had become popular folklore. This was stated in the 1974 book The Monopoly Book: Strategy and Tactics of the World's Most Popular Game, by Maxine Brady, and even in the instructions of the game itself. As Professor Ralph Anspach fought Parker Brothers and its then parent company, General Mills, over the trademarks of the Monopoly board game, much of the early history of the game was "rediscovered."
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Closeup of some pieces of the game "Monopoly". For Macro Mondays theme "when I was a child...". We played this game a lot growing up, usually to occupy a rainy Saturday afternoon. Also for 2016: one photo each day (129/366)
Life is a roll of the dice one minuter your up the next in jail, I prefer the concept of chess where the check mate is your fault and not the luck of the roll. 7DOS fun and games Black & White Wednesday
50th anniversary version from 1985, with guilder as currency.
50 jarig jubileum versie uit 1985, met ook nog guldens als valuta.
Ozark Highland Auto Tour
Mingo National Wildlife Preserve
Puxico Missouri
Photo taken April 24 2020
A panoramic view of Monopoly Marsh from an overlook along the auto tour road. The calm surface made an almost perfect reflection of the incredible sky. Interrupted by swamp vegetation sprouting up out of the water. In the distance you can see the flatness of the earth where the Mississippi River once passed many many years ago.
"Monopoly but not as we know it Captain." Actually more like a line from Star Trek, it seems appropriate here. The gaming figures are standing on the board with a 1000 credit coin and a Sith chance card behind them. It certainly makes a change from Mayfair and The Old Kent Road.
We have a 2006 edition of the Monopoly game which uses credit cards for transactions rather than paper money.
While Grandmother and Pippi were enjoying their sleigh ride, the cousins started their annual Monopoly tournament. These girls are very competitive, so once it starts, the game will not stop until someone has been declared the champion!
These Blythe dolls are Juno Estella, Patty Patch, and Sailing Dominique for “We would not stop” on Flickr and “Red Hair” on Facebook. The game is called “World’s Smallest Monopoly” and it is complete in every tiny detail.
...placed on less good property!? :D
- Original picture taken one misty morning on the way to work. ;)
An old game board dating from the sixties for Macro Mondays theme of the week : "Games People Play."
Un hôtel et une maison rue de la Paix, c'est la fortune. :-)
Happy Macro Monday !
For 122 pictures in 2022 # 34 "Game pieces". Due to extremely hot and extremely windy weather, I decided to retreat indoors for some shots. This is part of an old monopoly game (actually all of our games are pretty old, lol).
A sidelit, abstract composition comprising three Monopoly playing pieces for this week's theme.
Four images focus-stacked.
ANSH scavenger7 "childhood game"
this actually is not accurate- when i was a child, we were outside all the time, so a more accurate representation would be kick the can or red rover or playing in the woods and climbing trees or putting pennies on a RR track.
I'm not much of a one for lucky charms so when the Smile on Saturday theme was announced I was devoid of ideas... then I remembered this little cat who lives in our Monopoly game box. It dates back to my Dad's childhood, I think. The cat was not part of the original game and I don't know where it came from but it was always the playing piece I chose. Did it bring me luck? I don't think so!
HSoS :-)