This second part of the three part series took a look at the way games had influenced Britain over the last two hundred years. Woolley showed us how the board games had been altered as a method of teaching moral dilemmas, which had a surprisingly political and social impact as an outcome.
Once this style of board game was taken to america it had to be changed to fit the american dream style of play that people had come to expect in america. This lead the game developers to make a lot of money. This paved the way for the most popular board game in history, monopoly, a game that came about through the transfer of money between players and the want to own as much as possible during the great depression, This game is part of the holy trinity of board games, Cluedo, Scrabble and of course Monopoly. These three games all have a feeling of reality and aura of real life to them, which was the main reason for their success. This is something that has continued to be used in games today, an example of which is war on terror.
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