![]() At 3am on Tuesday the local news crew arrived.īy Wednesday the game looked in jeopardy – the bank’s money had run out. Leeds rang KDKA, the local news affiliate, to tell them they were going for a record-breaking attempt. How long could they keep playing for? They wanted to find out. Late into that Monday night on 27 November 1961, with no end in sight, the four students felt that to pack up their game would be a waste. The four students at the University of Pittsburgh had been playing for several hours when they decided to pool their resources, grouping two teams to keep the game going. ![]() ![]() It was a slow Monday evening when Eddie Leeds, Howard Finkel, Allen Paulenoff and Sherman Fogel sat down to play a game of Monopoly.
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