How Monopoly Helped WW2 Prisoners ‘Get Out Of Jail Free’ | Board Game History
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In WW2, over 200,000 allied prisoners were taken captive. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and a hare-brained scheme was hatched to bust POWs out of their camps. The method? Monopoly.
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24.12.2022
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Liked for the opening line alone, what a great video!
I really enjoyed watching this . Please make this this a series . But one negative point if you are going to dress up , Adam is wearing an WW2 American flight person uniform not British also they had enamel mugs not modern day ones . But what an extensive board game collection .
He said the thing!
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Describing how the silk map could be folded up small to hide gave me a "Pulp Fiction" flashback.
Well this video has everything.
Escape from Colditz references, cheap Cena gags, and managing to successfully sh*t all over Monopoly while praising it at the same time.
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Board Games wouldn't even be around anymore if it weren't for Monopoly and games like Risk or Life
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Why does he keep saying monopoly's shit. I think it's great
And Monopoly goes on forever and ever and ever and ever
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Fantastic video well done! Great timing as well as this year does mark the 65th anniversary of the end of WWII. Everyone should share the shit out of this video, it deserves so many views!
Found this fascinating and brilliant
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I hoped you was going to book better the rules of Monopoly xD
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"Italians. Check your attics!" Had to watch the rest of the video again because I was laughing so loud at that
I can only imagine the checks for those packages of Monopoly
“Safe, safe, safe, knife, safe, gun, safe, WWE Championship, safe…”
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Certainly the best monopoly video
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How dare you cloud Escape From Colditz with the stench of Monopoly. It's in the better half of games, if you compare it to all the stuff that's been made. BGG ranks it on par with Balderdash and Spades!
4:57–5:08 Hilarious
They “designed a game to help prisoners get out of jail free”
….. I see what you did there !!! Lol 👏 😂 👏 😆
This is so interesting! It's so unreal to me how much spy stuff is actually based off of some insane shit that actually happened