MONOPOLY Here&Now: The World Edition Fun Facts
Fun Facts about MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition
• Montreal and Riga share more than the dark blue property group – they share a passion for ice hockey, which is the No. 1 sport in both cities for residents to play and watch. In fact, a student at McGill University in Montreal was the first to write down rules for ice hockey in 1875. Today, Montreal is home to the Montreal Canadiens hockey team and Riga is home to the Dinamo Riga ice hockey club.
- Vaira Vike Freiberga, the sixth president of Latvia, and its first female president, received her Ph.D. at McGill University in Montreal. Her term ended in 2007.
• Ten of the cities on the game board have hosted Olympic games, including top city Montreal (1976). The light blue group is the “sportiest” place on the game board as all three cities in the property group have hosted the modern summer games: Athens (2004), Barcelona (1992) and Tokyo (1964).
• Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition will be available in more than 50 countries and in 37 different languages.
• Two countries have more than one city on the game board: Canada and China. The Canadian cities on the board are Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. China is represented on the board by Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
• There is only one "language" color group on the game board – the red property group. English is the primary language in all three cities: London, New York and Sydney.
• Just call them twins! The magenta property group is the home of twin (or sister) cities. Toronto is the sister city of Kyiv and Istanbul, the city's neighbors on the new game board.
• The most populous city on the game board is Shanghai with 18.4 million people living in city limits. Gdynia is the smallest city with a population of just 252,443.
• Summers are scorching in many of the cities on the game board, but Hong Kong has the highest summer temperature with an average high of 33 degrees Celsius (92 degrees Fahrenheit) in July. Montreal is the coldest place to be in winter as the city has the lowest average temperature with an average low of -16 degrees Celsius (4 degrees Fahrenheit) in January.
• In the traditional MONOPOLY game, Illinois Avenue is the most landed on property space. London holds that prized location on the new world game board.
• The sky is the limit as tall buildings dot the skyline in many of the cities featured on the game board. Taipei boasts the tallest completed skyscraper, Taipei 101 at 449 meters and Toronto is the home of the world’s tallest tower at 553 meters. Hong Kong is the home to the most skyscrapers with 7,681.
• During the voting period, Canadians were the most enthusiastic country with the majority of residents voting for all three nominated Canadian cities.
• The cities featured on the brown property group, Taipei and Gdynia, were selected by voters through a write-in vote. The cities with the most write-in votes faced off in a bonus vote in March 2008. The two cities with the most votes earned a spot on the game board.
• If you were to visit all three cities of one of the color property groups in an around the world adventure, the visit to the cities in the orange group (Shanghai, Vancouver, Rome) would rack up more than 25,100 air miles (40,390 kilometers). By contrast, the trip between cities of the green property group (Cape Town, Belgrade, Paris) would earn travelers the fewest points, as the trip is only 7,850 miles (12,633 kilometers).
• Three property spaces will receive a boost in visitors during game play as players are directed to visit Montreal, London and Istanbul through the Community Chest and Chance cards.
• The currency in Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition is the Monopoly Dollar and is indicated with a new currency symbol, a capital M with two horizontal lines through the middle.
• Of the cities on the game board outside China, eight have an established Chinatown. The Orange property group, in addition to being the home for Shanghai, includes Vancouver, which has the largest Chinatown in Canada and the second largest in North America. Additionally, Rome has an emerging Chinatown that includes hundreds of restaurants and shops.
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