Personally I find your videos ever so interesting, but, as a voice artist, let me add that the beautiful voice over work with crystal clear vowels and rounded off final sounds makes the videos much more appealing.
Did anyone else along with me, know Columbo's correct first name? My father loved that show and therefore we all had to watch it growing up in the early 70's.
I like how it's own backstory proves capitalism and its resulting eventual monopoly is the clear winner of economic systems. Everyone gaining together is nowhere near as fun as a select few elite owning absolutely everything and destitution, poverty, and misery for the rest is just too delicious not to strive for! (As long as I'm one of the select few elite, of course!)
Really? My friends and I used to play the game for days when we schoolkids, never any arguments but lots of fun and laughter. Played it with my kids hundreds of times while they were growing up, again never any arguments.
Which is actually the correct way to play the game. The game was created to show how unchecked capitalism destroys everything, so you're supposed to buy everything you land on on that's purchasable. Which is why, per the actual rules, if someone chooses not to buy a property they landed on, it's supposed to go up for auction. The problem with Monopoly is that so may people have created House rules over the years that it's basically lost it's true meaning.
Monopoly had a part in the escape the movie The Great Escape was based on. The Monopoly game's part was not divulged in the movie as Britain still did not want their secrets known as they may have to use them again. With Germany invading Poland the British recognized that their air crews were likly to get shot down over enemy territory. So of every class of airmen a percentage were sent on to additional training and sworn to never reveal what the training really consisted of. The training was on escape from POW camps and evasion. These men were designated as escapers. When they got to a POW camp they would send a letter home through the Red Cross. They had been trained on codes, code phrases and concocting invisible ink. All these letters passed through the British government and the escapers had a code that made their letters stand out to those that knew what to look for. The alert code was simple. Europeans wrote the date of February, 23, 2023 as 23/2/2023. The escaper dated his letter in the American form of 2/23/2023. Now they knew which prison camp an escaper was in. The escaper on arriving in the POW camp would introduce himself to the POW commander and tell him what to look for. The British sent to the camps they knew they had escapers, using the Red Cross I think, escape items. Since they knew where the camp was an area map printed on a silk handkerchief. Of course the escape items had to be hidden from the German guards. Here is where the monopoly game came in. The Monopoly game boards in Briton were about twice as thick as those in the United States. They bought a bunch of boards and kept a few for modification. What they did was carefully peel back the printed surface of the board. Then they made hollowed out compartments for the escape items. The map Handkerchief was one. Things like small flat compass and a surgeons wire saw that could cut through barbed wire and some number of other items. Then the printed playing surface was reattached. But there was one modification to the playing surface made. A tiny red dot was put on one space, I think the jail space. This meant escape items were in that board and it would be taken and disassembled while the other non modified boards were distributed to the other POWs.
I am a Canadian and remember when the game Snakes and Ladders was all the rage. Only a few years ago did I learn that Americans called it "chutes and ladders". It seems funny as you don't want to slide down a snake and it sets you back in the game but who doesn't like slides? It is a slide that they call a "chute". The American name gives a sense of "fun" in failing which makes me wonder if that isn't a subconscious plant.
I really enjoyed this. I knew nothing about the history of these games despite having played all of them. Every day's a school day! I still enjoy a game of Triv 😊
A change of direction but just as informative and enjoyable. The time you spend in making these really shows, and as I have remarked before you could read the instructions from an Ikea flat pack and I would be enthralled, Looking forward to the next one, video that is, not a flat pack😊😊
Thank you so much! That means the world to me, I'm so glad you enjoyed it! :) 🖤 I'm very happy that I've mastered the art of making even assembling furniture riveting! ;D
We called them pie pieces. In around 2011 I took my kids to their grandparents house and we pulled out a game. The original tribal pursuit- the questions were so outdated at that point it was hard to win pieces of the pie 😂😂. Clue has to be my favorite. And everything you shared was new information for me. I especially enjoyed learning about Chutes and Ladders. Thank you for sharing these wonderful stories, facts and tales. Your voice is captivating.
Always learn something new from one of my favorite channels. RE: Trivial Pursuit. IIRC, several years ago the producers of the games admitted that roughly 25% of the answers were indeed wrong. Which is really frustrating when you answer correctly, but the game master says, "Nope. Its....", and then the whole game has to be stopped while the correct answer is researched. Sadly though, even though the research shows the answer in the game is wrong, you still got the answer wrong according to the game. If I'm not mistaken (and I may well be), the game makers have changed the rules to reflect just that. If the answer is wrong according to the game, you don't get credit for looking up the right answer.
I once met a guy who was on his way to China to have his board game idea manufactured. The game was designed to teach geography, and the players ran a trucking company and had to figure out the best way to dispatch them. Not a great game or anything, but there was one really noteworthy thing about it: The inventor's last name was Parker.
The American game "Sorry" was based upon Parcheesi, an East Indian chase game, where one draws cards, or in other versions of the game they would roll a die, or use a spinner to determine how quickly in moving ahead a number of spaces to get to their special ly designated color home base. There was also a Parcheesi game with a "popping die" mechanism which when gently pushed -- rolled the die inside so a person would not lose the die in game play. That determined the number of spaces one got to move along the board to home, just like in the card drawn, roll a die, or the spinner method games played by a player!
Somehow I missed this video 3 weeks ago and I'm glad I eventually found it... Trivial Pursuit was always my favorite game, but I loved hearing abount the origins of all the games you listed... from your devoted Darkling Katherine...
The snakes and ladders origin is a surprise and seeing the original makes me want to find one or at least study one. Thank you once again ,this is one of my favourite sites .
Very interesting, I never even thought about how these well loved board games came to be! Thank you for all the hard work you put into these videos, they are so enjoyable and enlightening and by the way, I call them cheese! 😊♥
Absolutely scurrilous verdict in the Trivial Pursuit case. But all too familiar; look at the various TV commercials that directly ripped-off short movie art pieces, and got away with it when it went to court. Copyright cases don't go to the originator of ideas, they go to whoever is making the most money. Great content none-the-less. I love being called a 'darkling' ;)
Yes, it's unfortunate that many of these cases often seem to favour those who can afford the best legal representation....I'm so happy you enjoyed the video :) 🖤
@@amysbees6686 yeah it was an interesting find…led me down a rabbit hole now I side eye all triangle clubs lol They help people… just, it started weird. Weird guys.
Just when I thought you do amazing research with “children stories “, you go and out do yourself with this video. Love it. I knew about the Snakes and Ladders (Chutes and Ladders). With the trivial pursuit I love to think of cheese 🧀. Clue is always my favorite and I was really good at it. Loved the movie too. Thank you for another great (as always) video. 😉
Thank you so much! Cluedo (Clue) is my favourite too and I agree about the movie! 🖤 I'm so happy you enjoyed the video and thank you for your lovely comment :)
LOR Risk was my longest running game. Chess of course is awesome. Not sure if it’s wise to consider Ouija boards as simple games. And alas the sheer amount of money that goes to the Roulette table. Good show
Interesting concept. Love it. Who would have thought that simple board games would be so informative? You should do one about the ever popular Ouija board
I remember playing a game as a child called Go For Broke. It was basically the opposite of Monopoly. The first person to lose all their money was the winner.
Thank you for once again presenting to your viewers some interesting trivia facts. I was not aware of many of these although I have played, happily, many of these games. Again, thank you.
My fave growing up was trouble. Loved the popping of the die in that plastic bubble. As a Jersey girl I’ve seen many of the streets that are around the boardwalk in Atlantic City. 💁🏻♀️
Thank you, this was fascinating, and informative. I was not aware of the Landlord game, and how it’s inventor was so badly used. I really enjoyed seeing the original board designs for so many of the older ones. You must have put in a lot of research time on this one.🖤🇨🇦
Brilliant episode didn't know much of it at all but I do now, thanks! Who knew they had such a interesting origins! Looking forward to your next episode. Hope you are well. Thanks again 😁
@lesleylakos2417 Thank you so much, so glad you enjoyed! :)🖤 @paulchambers3142 you're correct, chess is another ancient Indian game to teach the tactics of war (the original sets have playing pieces shaped as elephants, rather wonderful!) Draughts is a tricky one: no one is sure of the exact origins, but very similar games were played in ancient Egypt and Ancient Rome. The first references to what we know as the game of draughts appear in print in Spain around the 16th century, but most historians think it was the French that combined those ancient games with a chess board and created what we now know as draughts. :)
Clue is my favorite board game because it is one of the few that doesn't involve basic math. My sister loved Monopoly and was very good at it. The story of Monopoly is sad and unfortunately teaches the idea that hurting others is good.
Amazed at all the information you provided! For Trivial Pursuit I refer to the pieces as "cheese" A strange subject which we all take for granted...Well researched and presented. I'm glad I'm subscribed ☺️
I've known of the Concept of Trivial Pursuit since it was launched, though I never got to see the board or play it. I was struck, on sering it here, how closely the board resembles that for Coppit. This being an English game from the 60s similar to Ludo. Six colours having 4 cones each, 2 to 6 players, have to move out of their own wedge to land on other cones capturing them and taking the prisoner home without being caught themselves. Catching a stack of cones meant freeing any of your own. There are a number of safe spaces to help on the journey home, if you can roll tge right number of spaces to move on the dice. I wonder if there is any connection between them. Coppit is great for all ages who can count to 12. You don't need a common language, except to explain the rules. Very underrated game imo and its a shame it went out of production.
i never liked board games and called them bored games, in my 70s childhood we had family board game nights and i prefered to be drawing or reading a book
Maybe it doesn't really count as a board game, but I thought cribbage would be included. After all, my dastardly ancestor, Sir Jonathan Suckling who is credited with inventing it, certainly was a piece of work
Trivial Pursuit. The shape of the pieces is not related to pies or cheese. They ARE linked to cake. As in the phrase: "That's a piece of cake!" i.e. the answer is so easy that it's a piece of cake. An old English saying.
Hey you should try Root, Puerto Rico, Carcassonne, The castles of Burgundy, Castles of Mad King Ludvig, Spirit Island... Those kind of games (in contrast to the ones in this list) are REAL fun, original and deep strategical board games.
. PIES OR CHEESE? Although certainly not a tournament-level player, I was definitely recognized as a 'ringer' in Trivial Pursuit in the very early days, when there was only ONE version of the game. But I've never even HEARD of pies or cheese.dd
That just figures about Monopoly. The game that is banned in so many homes because playing it turns into a bloodbath (at least here in the States). I always called the Trivial Pursuit pieces pie.
10:20 In Seinfeld's The bubble boy episode, George and Susan play a game with The Bubble Boy, where the spelling mistake is "Moops" rather than "Moors". Insanity then follows!
When I was quite young and had just learned to play Monopoly, a cousin who was in college at the time told me that its name should really be "Cut Your Competitor's Throat".
Interesting about Columbo's first name - I always thought it was "Lieutenant" - I seem to recall that even _he_ said that in one of the shows (though maybe this is an example of the Mandela Effect).
