From the early twentieth century on the so called Folk Games were home made in America.  These monopoly-like Folks Games were designed and played by Quakers in the Philadelphia and Atlantic City area, in the east part of America. They were called "The Landlord's Game", the name Lizzie Magie already gave to the game she described in her 1904's patent. 
Till today over the whole world and for various reasons countless self-made games have been made. 

Edition: War scrap Monopoly   
Makers: Renée (12) and Jean (14) Guillot -1944
Present owner: Renée's granddaughter Audrey (13)
Dimensions of the game board: 45 x 45 cm
The game:
August 2004 Evelyne Chapat (daugther of Renée Guillot) introduced this game to me. The story going with it is as follows:

"My grandmother and her 3 children lived in the drowsy village of Tournan-en-Brie, some 50 km east of Paris, while her husband was war prisoner in Germany.
Shortly before the invasion of Normandy (June 6, 1944) a railway -junction at the nearby village Vaires-sur-Marne was intensively bombed by the English. All windows in a circle of 50 km were broken, so in the peaceful village of Tournan as well. Shortly after that day the English intensively bombed Tournan to prevent the Germans to escape home. The streets of peaceful Tournan must have been full with German troops.
The bombardment destroyed, among other things a coal store that burned for weeks and a printing-office. It was from this printing-office children demolished everything that wasn't burned, like: paper, cardboard, ink, wood rules etc..
Because the Game Boy wasn't yet in childrens' minds they decided to make a Monopoly game according to the original. I have no idea how long it took but everything was hand-cut, written with pen, in purple ink and even the houses and hotels were cut from the wood rules and subsequently immersed in ink.
It was my uncle Jean who wrote the word Monopoly in Gothic on the board's centre. 
As far as he can remember they made this set from the scrap of the bombed printing office for a friend who was injured in that same bombardment to play while hospitalised. 

My whole live I've never played any standard Parker edition, we always used our private game! I do not at all  intend to sell this set because today it is played by the third generation: my daughter Audrey (13)."

All properties are those of the standard Parker edition, so with the streets of Paris. However, the kids did not very accurately copy and so some remarkable differences occured:

Originally the board was protected by a sheet of paper sticked to the board with stamp borders. Later on we protected the surface by a plastic foil.

All Chance and Caisse de Communauté cards are handwritten with entirely different instructions probably invented by the kids themselves, like:

The 7 handmade banknotes (7x5 cm) are of white cardboard with a broad colored  border. They are in the denominations: 100 - 500 - 1000 - 2000 - 5000 - 10000 and 50000.
In this era the typical French tokens used in the Parker editions were simple flat wooden discs like checkers, reason for the kids to look for discs as well. They found wooden discs as well as plastic ones in different diameters. They dipped one in the red ink and one in the purple, the three other ones having a color of their own.
The purple houses and red hotels are all handcut from rules, reason why they differ in length, and subsequently dipped into the available inks. Today they are stored in the large matchbox shown, but this one must be of some later date.
This set unjust has 3 dice, but perhaps 1 of them is just hold in reserve?

Edition: Monopoly Self made War (?) edition, made of wood 
Maker: J.Ventajou, son of Gabriel Ventajou (?) - ±1944 
Dimensions of the board: 51.5 x 52 cm
The game:

This set was offered februari 2007 on the internetsite ebay for only € 10,-, while it probably is an edition with a very 
interesting historical background.

In the rusty biscuits tin that goes with the set for its accessories is a nicely hand-written card from the maker (same 
handwriting as of the Chance and Caisse de Communauté cards) with following address:
    J.Ventajou
    Murviel les Béziers

    Gare Béziers - Hérault

a little village in the south of France, where even a "Chemin de Ventajou"
exsist. Maybe he/she, or next of kin, can be found again, so that the true 
history of this game can be retrieved!

J. applied old, unused postcards of his father Gabriel for the property cards. Conclusion: Son had probably continued his fathers stationer's shop. There he probably had sufficient time to accurately write all property deeds.

There are a number of reasons to suppose this game was made around W.W.II, such as:

The streets and stations are those of the official French edition of course, so of the capital Paris. The design is of course from Waddington, shown by the "backwards driving" engines at the stations as well as the double names on the properties. For obscure reasons the maker did use (about) the the same colors for the color bars of the properties, however, for different groups. Besides he replaced Bd. Malesherbes by Bd. Magenta and calls Gare Montparnasse "Gare d'Orléans - Montparnasse" on the property deed only. 
It is also striking that the rent for the unbuilt, most expensive yellow street is not the same (fr.2,200) as those of the other 2 (as it used to be till about 1980), but here has been made even cheaper (fr.2,000)!
From Départ on the properties are:

Boul. de Belleville - Rue Lecourbe - Gare Montparnasse - Rue de Vaugirard - Rue de Courcelles - Avenue de la République - En prison/Simple visite - Boul. de la Villette - Avenue de Neilly - Rue de Paradis - Gare de Lyon (P.L.M.) - Avenue Mozart - Boulevard Saint-Michel - Place Pigalle - Parc Gratuit - Avenue Matignon - Boulevard Magenta - Avenue Henri-Martin - Gare du Nord - Faubourg Saint-Honoré - Place de la Bourse - Rue Lafayette - Allez en prison - Avenue de Breteuil - Avenue Foch - Boulevard des Capucines - Gare Saint- Lazare (État) - Avenue des Champs-Élysées and the Rue de la Paix.

The dimensions of the property deeds are 68x 88 mm, those of the Chance and Caisse de Communauté cards are 52x88 mm. 
The neutral banknotes (54x95 mm) are made of thin paper and hand colored with color pencils piece by piece. Their denominations are printed with a rubber handstamp. The 6 denominations are resp.  500 - 1,000 - 2,000 - 5,000 -10,000 and 50,000. (Would those of Fr.100 never have been made?)

As it was usual till about 1950, the tokens of this game also exsist of flat, round discs with a diameter of 20 mm. They also are but 4, showing the numbers 4 - 6 - 7 and 8.  

Now only 24 small (10x10x10 mm) dark green houses and 6 unequal (abt.10x18x10 mm) dark red hotels are with the set

Edition: Métropoly 
Makers: Three friends of Jean-François Dias - Paris - 2000
Dimensions of the box: 51 x 27 cm
       of the game board: 48.5 x 48.5 cm
The game:
This very interesting game was given to the Parisian Jean-François by his friends on his 45^th anniversary. It concerns the Métro of  Paris existing exactly 100 years.

The game board's midfield situates you in a metro station rightaway, with it's  blue (station) sign, the orange Correspondance sign and the blue Sortie sign.

The properties are stations of 8 different Métro lines. They have the same colors as the lines 1 to 8 on all maps and plans. Of course Start is called Dépôt (the place  where the trains leave from). From Dépôt on the properties are:

Line 8: Concorde - Madeleine 
Gare Montparnasse
Line 7: Cadet - Pont Marie - Chaussée d'Antin
Simple préavis ou grève (Simple préavis ou grève (Simple warning or strike)
Line 6: Bercy - Passy -Service Electricité - St Jaques
Gare de Lyon
Line 5: Jaurès - Richard Lenoir - Austerlitz
Bon plan
Line 4: Châtelet - Cité - St Michel
Gare du Nord
Line 3: République - Bourse - Service d'Entretien (Maintenance) - Réamur
Manif, resoignez la grève (Go demonstrate; go on strike)
Line 2: Blanche - Porte Dauphine - Monceau
Gare St Lazare
Line 1: Etoile - Bastille

All property deeds show a picture of the concerning station. All these very high quality pictures have been spontaneously made available by the Paris Métro Organisation RATP.
Very original Chance and Caisse de Communauté have been substituted by Correspondance and Sortie. 
The space Income Tax is here .... Pickpocket. That has been thought of! The Free Parking field has been substituted by Bon Plan, meaning as well Good Card as Good Plan. And so the Extra Tax space is now Contrôle des billets (Ticket control).

The banknotes are also very original, because the currency is expressed in Dias a pithy name very useful for this purpose. The "International Bank" is named after the Rue Mathurins (sailors) in which street  the company is settled where Jean-François is working. The portraits on the banknotes are of Mr. Monopoly and Mr. Dias himself.  Besides Dias is also the the abbreviation of "Devise Internationale des Actions Souterraines" (International Subway Auction Currency).  There are 7 banknotes in the denominations of 1 - 5 - 10 ( white) - 20 - 50 - 100 and 500.

Instead of houses you now buy yellow  "2- eme classe tickets",  right angled chips divided into the zones 1 to 4. The hotels are blue green "tickets toutes zônes". 
The 6 tokens are made of metal and are elements of the metro: Blue ticket, present-day 2^nd class ticket - Set of 4 tickets, all the  tickets used since the opening - Wagon - M(full), the old Métro-logo - M(open), the present-day Métro-logo and a full metal Door, the entry made by Guimard, the first designer of the Métro.
The total is in a "borrowed" box  with the well-known red plastic insert.

The owner is looking for a publisher for this very special game collectors from all over the world will certainly be very interested in. 

Edition: Familypoly
              "Le célèbre jeu de transactions familiales (The famous game of family transactions) Édition spéciale juin 2005"
Makers: J-F's daughters Laurène and Camille with their grand-uncle Michel - Paris
Dimensions of the box: 51 x 27 cm
       of the game board: 48.5 x 48.5 cm
The game:
Jean-François Dias still seems to be an avid collector since his family could gladden him by making another game for his 50^th anniversary. He proudly tells about this unique gift: