again, taken from another site...
On this day in 1935, the Monopoly board game went on sale in stores. Use a current topic you are studying and design your own game, similar to the format of Monopoly. (If time permits, you can also build the game.)
I am currently researching Voltaire and Emilie du chatelet. Monopoly is the perfect game as people earned a great deal of money from their land holdings at the time.
Boardwalk would be the Versailles. Park Place would be Cirey.
As Voltaire spent many a night in jail for various offenses to the crown - the Jail would remain.
Community Chest and Chance cards would all be about the enlightenment or science. Example "Win a prize on your paper about Newton advance to Versailles." or "don't get credit for your paper on Newton becuase you are a women, loose five turns" "Your play delighted the King - advance to go and collect 300 francs." "Your essay against the king's policy published in England has made its way to France. Go directly to Jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect 300francs."
Free Parking would be winning a science prize.
The railroads would be secret hideouts for romantic trysts. So if you control them all, you can get away with anything illicit. If you land on them, heavy penalties apply.
You win if you can get credit for your writings and avoid prison.
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