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Number of versions: 2
Edition: March 13, 2004
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With thanks to Mohamed Boukhalifa - NL for his
translations of the Arabic.
As far as is known so far, and as to be expected, there has never been issued
a Parker
Brothers/Hasbro "authorized" edition in this country. It
is anyhow astonishing that this originally American game is played in a country
that is so obviously anti-America.
 Edition:
Baghdad Game - Monopoly, entry number 15880/5/12
Publisher: Doudabdulrahim Works - 1986
Dimensions of the box: 51 x 27.5 cm
The game:
Randy and Yulia Liebermann from Virginia - USA are the proud owners of this interesting edition.
I guess everybody does recognize the little guy on a flying carpet and the oillamp
from the fairy tale "Alladin and the lamp" on the left side of the lid as well as
the Monopoly-like banknotes at the right. Less striking are those 2 dice
showing 3 and 5, clearly copied from the standard editions of Parker Brothers
and Hasbro since 1985.
The graphically good-looking box contains the solid, folding pressed
paperboard game board whose green
cloth backing is similar to the type of material used by a book binder. Although there are
deviations from the standard "authorized" editions, like:
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no game board spaces with railroad company names, instead the
following 4 Baghdad hotels
are listed: Ishtar Sheraton - Al-Mansour Mella - Babylon
and Al Rasheed, each with its
distinctive corporate logo at the top of the appropriate game board space. |
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the old man on the Jail corner, rather than a rascal behind bars. |
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new destinations for the "Income tax" - "Electric
Company" - "Water works" and "Luxury tax"
spaces, which are here resp.: Dharebet Emlek (= Property Tax) -
Djazira Bagdad Sijaha (= Bagad Tourist Island) - El Zjaniya and
Dharebet Daghel (= Income Tax). |
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are many examples of Parker Brothers' identical presentations like:
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the cards spaces are also next to corner 1 and 3. |
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the blue treasure chest (which is now Games
Chest) and the red
question mark (however with square dot) for Had (= Chance). |
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the red car with white tires on the
Intidar Mazani (= Free Parking) corner. |
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the pointing policeman with wistle (however in black instead of blue). |
Although most of the properties on the game board are streets indeed, there
are some strange ones like, Ministry, Salesman and Customer.
From Start onwards (where you collect 200 Dinar) the properties are
respectively:
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Hai Khahera (= Khahera street) - Hai
Shar (= Public street) |
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Kanoun Raribetou
(= Gerechtshof) - Beyaha (=Salesman) - Shareaa
Senaha (= Industry street) |
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Bagdad Zsedida (= New Bagdad) - Zebounah
(= Customer) - Medina Marmouk (= Marmouk
Town) |
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Shareaa Philisten (= Palestine street)
- Ouaziria (= Ministry) - Shareaa
Cefa (= Cefa street) |
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Aalaija - Shareaa
Zeria (= Zeria street) - ? |
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? - Shareaa Goulafeh (= Goulafeh
street) - Sahat Teherir (= Teherirs
place) |
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Shareaa Aladoun (= Aladoun street) - Shareaa
Al Rasheed (= Al Rasheed street) - Shareaa
Abinazes (= Abinazes street) |
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Mansour - Alzahria. |
The innerbox contains 16 slots to store:
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7 banknotes (60x102 mm), in the denominations: Dinar 1
- 5 - 10 - 20
- 50 - 100
and 500. |
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the 36 green plastic houses and
12 red hotels. |
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the 16 pink-backed Chance (= Had) and
16 blue-backed Games Chest (=
Sandok Aleuba) cards. |
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the very small (8x8x8 mm) white dice with black markings
except for the "one" dot on
each die which is very large and red. |
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the 28 circular, transparent plastic sheet over printed paper on metal
"badges" (diam. 55 mm), which represent the property deeds.
Six of these are white in color with black printing,
representing the 4 hotels and the 2 utilities, while 22 colored "badges" correspond with the rest of the properties. |
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the 6 tokens, smaller (diam. 36 mm) circular pieces in different
solid color. They are made in the same fashion as the property deeds. |
The Had- and Sandok
Aleuba cards do also have essentially the same texts as in the Parker
design, like:
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Advance to Start and collect 200 Dinar. |
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Advance to hotel Al-Mansour Mella. If you pass Start, collect 200 Dinar. |
The Rules are in a nice booklet, illustrated with a picture of the
lamp and the now laughing guy with a sack full of banknotes on his vagabond
staff.
 Edition:
Baghdad Game - Monopoly, without ref.nr.
Publisher: Doudabdulrahim Works? -
±1989
Dimensions of the box: 51 x 27.5 cm
The game:
This set is owned by Clive Barnard - UK. It was bought in 1989 by a Daily Telegraph Middle East
correspondent in Baghdad on one of his visits to Iraq.
(It is a pity the lid of the box is damaged by a light brown tape.)
The differences compared to the 1986 issue are:
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The front box cover picture of the little boy with the money falling out
of the sack has a white background instead of green.
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The board's back is brown with many
illustrations.
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The property cards are rectangular pieces of card rather than round discs.
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The color of the banknotes differ. The denominations are : Dinar 1
- 5 - 10 - 20
- 50 - 100
and 500.
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The Had- and Sandok
Aleuba cards are both blue green.
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This edition has 2 sets of dice, one very small (white) and one
larger ivory colored set.
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