British Monopoly Board

Nice!

So you've made up a scenario and then used this fiction to justify incessant complaining across the site? Seems a shaky justification to me.

Also, I think you may have meant "oriented". Unless, of course, you're suggesting that the quizzes in question are aligned to face East...

most Americans have never been to Atlantic City and probably don't know the original Monopoly board was based on it.

Well, the most expensive property is Boardwalk, and I do think most Americans are aware of Atlantic City's famous Boardwalk, so by extension they do know where it's based.

The British board is based on London, of course, so although many streets won't be well known (like all the orange and yellow ones I forgot just now, and I live in London), at least people are likely to have heard of Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly and Kings Cross Station.

As far as I remember, many places around the world used the American board, and other countries - particularly if they were part of the Empire or the Commonwealth - used the British board. And finally localisation for many other countries came in, probably in the 1980s, I think.

There are boardwalks all over the place. Actually I remember as a child playing the game and thinking that maybe it was based on Ocean City, MD. Then later deciding it was just made-up. and then many years later learning about the connection to Atlantic City, though I've still never been to Atlantic City. My grandmother used to like to go there to gamble, that's all I know about the place. I was able to guess many of the famous places in London which is why I got a few on this quiz. There are thousands of different Monopoly boards out there... pretty much every single college town in the United States sells its own local version, there are hundreds of different international versions and novelty versions based on movies or book series or different hobbies.

London is a much more famous and well-known city than Atlantic City, even to most Americans I'd wager.

I salute Harry Potter for introducing me to the only british train station that i can easily remember!!!!!

Haven't played in over six years and I got all, surprised me.

*oKay

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