During the Great Depression,Charles Darrow,like millions of other people,was out of a job and had no money.Darrow,however,did not remain idle.To keep his family entertained,he invented a board game.It was a real-estate trading game in which players bought and sold imaginary pieces of property.Recalling the days when the family used to spend vacations at Atlantic City,he named the properties after streets in that city.The Darrows played the game at their kitchen table on a board drawn on a piece of olicloth.Friends and neighbors liked the game,and asked Darrow to make them sets too.By selling them,Darrow was able to feed his family during the worst years of the Depression. The game became so popular that in 1935 the Parker Brothers game company paid Darrow for the right to produce it.It's still so successful that more play-money is printed for Darrow's game each year than all the real paper money printed by all the nations of the world. The name of Darrow's game is,of course,"Monopoly."