[1] With L. S. Ayres & Co.[2] then Electronics Laboratories, Layman published the game for a year before selling it to Knapp Electric for $200.

[1] Initially, the game was sold in small black boxes (some of which came with poker chips for money) with four different versions of the rules.

Eugene and Ruth Raiford, friends of Hoskins, showed the game to Charles E. Todd, a hotel manager in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

[1][2] During 1935, Parker Brothers was developing its own version of Monopoly, Fortune,[1] in case its deal with Darrow and the patent fell through.

[2] Known changes between the original and the Parker Brother editions: The game begins with each player on "Cash Here" with $1925.

Properties clockwise around the board begin with low value to high value purchase prices, with costs for additional houses and rents also increasing.