Guest Author - Megan Romer

Here's a somewhat random collection of some fun game-related trivia:

The most expensive Monopoly set ever created is worth $2 million. The board is made of gold and the pieces are jewel-encrusted.

Monopoly is the best-selling board game in the world. It is produced in 26 different languages.

Statistically, in the game of Monopoly, players land on B&O Railroad, Illinois Ave., and GO more than any other properties.

More than five billion green Monopoly houses have been made since 1935.

The longest Monopoly game ever played lasted 70 straight days (1,680 hours).

The highest Scrabble score that has been officially recorded was 1,049. Phil Appleby, the player who achieved that score, won that game by nearly 800 points.

Inventor Alfred Mosher Butts originally named his game "Criss Cross Words", and sold a few hundred sets under that name. Only later did the name get changed to Scrabble.

The highest-rated chess player in the world is Russian Gary Kasparov, whose highest rating was 2,851.

In chess, there are an astronomical 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves alone.

Many of these tidbits are from the Guinness World Records site, check them out for more fun trivia.

Do you know any more interesting trivia? Post it in the board games forum!


Guinness Book of World Records 2006