Pawtucket-based Hasbro owns the board game brands Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley, which make perennially popular games including Scrabble, Clue and Battleship as well as Monopoly.

When Parker Brothers rolled the dice on “the real estate game,” it did so reluctantly. The game seemed too long, too complicated, and too niche: who, after all, would get excited about buying ...

In contrast to Ms. Magie’s relatively meager payout, Parker Brothers paid the owner of another Monopoly precursor, The Fascinating Game of Finance, $10,000 in 1935 (~ $190,000 in 2021).