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| | Facts | - The record for the longest Monopoly game played in a bathtub is ninety-nine hours.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The game Monopoly has been played by approximately 500 million people in the world, and the game is available in 26 languages.
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(Added: Mon May 31 2004) - In 1902, the game table tennis was brought to the U.S. from Europe by Parker Brothers.
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(Added: Mon May 31 2004) - The property values on the Monopoly game board are the same today as they were in 1935.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Canadians Scott Abbott and Chris Haney invented Trivial Pursuit. They were planning on playing Scrabble and realized that some of the pieces were missing so they came up with the idea of making their own game; Trivial Pursuit.
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(Added: Wed Jan 25 2006) - The best selling game in history for coin-operated machines is Pac-Man.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Tohru Iwatani, the inventor of the video game Pac-Man, came up with the idea when he saw a pizza with a slice missing at a dinner party.
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(Added: Thu Sep 21 2006) - Milton Bradley originally wanted to name the game Twister, Pretzel; but he could not since the name was copyrighted.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Since its introduction in February 1935, more than two hundred million Monopoly board games have been sold worldwide.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, which is seventy straight days.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The longest game of Monopoly played underwater is 45 days.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In the United Kingdom, three million people play bingo every year.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Namco, who are the manufacturers of Pac Man the video game, has estimated that the original arcade game has been played over 10 billion times by individuals.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In a five card poker game there are 2,598,960 possible hands.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The name of the character that is behind bars in the Monopoly board game is Jake the Jailbird.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Thirty percent of all bingo players are under the age of 35.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In 1968, Abbie Hoffman played with a yo-yo while testifying before a congressional committee. He was found in contempt.
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(Added: Sun Jan 22 2006) - Atari had to bury millions of unsold "E.T." game cartridges in a New Mexico desert landfill in 1982.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Mr. Butts invented the game SCRABBLE. The game was originally called "Criss Cross Words."
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In the game of Monopoly, the most landed on properties are B&O Railroad, Illinois Avenue, and "Go."
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