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How Board Games Screwed Up Your Fiscal Sense

ANALYSIS

Jun 16, 2009 3:50 PM CDT

How Board Games Screwed Up Your Fiscal Sense

Games teach excessive lending, scarce saving

(Newser) - It’s really no wonder Americans fouled up the financial system—fiscal irresponsibility was instilled in us at an early age by board games, observes Caitlin McDevitt for the Big Money. Among the poor lessons imparted by money games:

In Monopoly, the game’s bank can never go bust—if

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World's Priciest
Fake Homes

GLOSSIES

Dec 25, 2008 1:53 PM CST

World's Priciest Fake Homes

Forbes list features fake mansions from movies, books, and video games

(Newser) - Forbes has put together its first list of the world’s most-expensive fictional homes. Including literature, video games, and Monopoly, the editors had a few ground rules—no castles, and take it easy on the country estates.

Xanadu, $135 million: A perfect mountaintop retreat for Citizen Kane, “a tragically

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Terrible Toy Makeovers

OPINION

Aug 23, 2008 11:35 AM CDT

Terrible Toy Makeovers

(Newser) - Toy companies keep reinventing our favorite childhood playthings, but the new versions almost never stack up. Babble lists 20 classic toys that didn't need facelifts:

Monopoly: Give us our thimble back! The game that taught us to handle money has become an ad for SpongeBob, American Idol and the like.

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Board Games Set for Turn
on Big Screen

Feb 21, 2008 10:07 AM CST

Board Games Set for Turn on Big Screen

Monopoly, Candy Land to follow in steps of Transformers , Toy Story

(Newser) - Paramount has the rights to any Transformers sequels, but a new deal with toymaker Hasbro guarantees Universal Pictures sole access to nearly all the company's iconic brands, including board games. The studio is said to be developing a Monopoly film, and a new live-action version of the game Clue may...