East Coast, contributed to the game's design and evolution. Darrow made some graphical changes to the game and sold his version to Parker Brothers in 1935. Charles Darrow, widely proclaimed by Parker Brothers as the 'inventor' of the game, was introduced to the game by his friends, the Todds, who lived in Atlantic City. By 1933 a board game named Monopoly was created much like the version of Monopoly sold by Parker Brothers and its parent companies throughout the rest of the 20th century and into the 21st. Phillips herself patented a revised edition of the game in 1923, and similar games of this nature were published commercially. Other interested game players redeveloped the game and some made their own sets. Her game, The Landlord's Game, was commercially published a few years later. Magie Phillips created a game through which she hoped to be able to explain the single tax theory of Henry George (it was intended to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies).
The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1904, when a Quaker woman named Elizabeth (Lizzie) J.
