History of the Board Game - Morals vs. Capitalism | US History | Extra History

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"You can't use dice, that'd be gambling!" hands kids roulette wheels

Now I'm imagining a modern Buddha being like, "Sorry bro. I can't play Fortnite tonight. Trying to achieve enlightenment."

Fun fact; Parker Brothers now prints more Monopoly money per year than the US Mint prints actual US currency

Now here's a fun topic, literally. My anthropology professor once said "History has proven one thing: humans must play" in part because it's not only how we socialize with our peers, but also how we learn about our environment and practice our responses to it in a situation with relatively low consequences (ie, the inherent risk in coin flips or 50-50% odds can be trialed before you decide to chance it on whether the berry you're holding is toxic or not).

Bit of a fun fact: Civil war soldiers would paint chess or checker boards on some cloth and carry it around with them for entertainment. They would also paint the boards on the lids of cracker boxes when in more permanent camp. Card and dice games were also HUGE in the civil war, with accounts of soldiers throwing away cards and dice before battle as not to be caught with them in death. Of course most of the games played had a gambling aspect to them.

I won a mug for guessing "Snakes and Ladders" when I was attending a public event held by the Indian Student association talking about "What game was used to explain the concept of karma to children" or something like that. Pretty sure I learned that from one of your other videos. Whatever the wording of the question was, it immediately made me recall Snakes and Ladders, so that's what I answered from the audience. ...or rather I won a mug because I knew the answer, whispered over to my friend sitting next to me what the answer, and when they said the answer I shouted "I KNEW IT." And because they had lost track of whoever actually raised their hand to answer, they handed me the mug. My brother keeps using it.

I love how EC still keeps sneaking in a Walpole Easter egg whenever they can We see you Walpole

Fun fact: Monopoly games only last "long" because most people dont play with all the rules or frankly dont play taking advantage of the full mechanics

I would have expected Monopoly to be a natural evolution from the Banking card game, but i am surprised to learn that Parker Brothers actually didn’t even make it.

7:27 How many fingers are you growing, Mat?!? 😆

Even though i am a millenial, i couldnt forget the countless christmas days playing board games with the family and majority were parker bros board games.

Victorian morals being the reason for the lack of free will in games explains Candyland rather handily.

If you've ever seen a Parker Brothers game called Rail Barons, my mother knew the man who created it. She still has one of the vanity printing copies of the game he gave her, with the original name Boxcars.

Oh hey, Extra Double Feature. Very nice. I also would like to recommend Shut Up and Sit Down's "8000 Years of Board Game History in 43 Minutes." If you have 43 minutes to spare.

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To put those Dr. Busby sales numbers in perspective, that's equivalent to over 300,000 units sold today.

Love the Balatro reference @ 4:35 Also, wrt 5:34, a spinner generates an even distribution whereas 2 dice are more "normal" and favor the middle numbers.

I haven't been around in a long, long time, but seeing "It was Walpole" brought back so many memories good god.

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