The board game Monopoly hasn’t aged. Since its introduction in 1904 — then known as Landlord’s Game — families and friends have enjoyed hours of fun buying properties and pretending to be tycoons.
The goal of the game is to pocket the most amount of cash and assets — the properties you buy and build — and avoid bankruptcy.
But it’s not just all play. Monopoly can also be an engaging way to teach people about money.
Investing that $200
Every time you pass ‘GO’ in Monopoly, you get $200.
If you can get $200 without doing anything every round, why risk the money and buy a property that may not get any returns?
When a player lands on a property owned by another player, they pay the owner rent.
It seems wise to save that $200 to avoid going bankrupt, but in Monopoly, that $200 does not grow in your bank. Meanwhile, you have to pay rent whenever you land on another player’s property....