Norway

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version 2000

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versie 2000.

Number of versions: 8

Edition: June 16, 1999
Rewritten: January 8, 2012

Map of Norway.

Soon after the introduction of the Monopoly game in America in 1935 Damm company introduced the Monopol editions in Norway, based on the Matador games from Danmark and Iceland, where the properties are in a circle instead of a square. However, somewhat later they continued making those games but changed the name in Millionær.
From 1961, the year Parker (later Hasbro) had revoked all their representations, they started manufacturing and distributing their very uniform editions themselves. Typical of these editions are a.o. the black engines on the stations, the blue treasure chests on the Community Chest spaces and the gold ring on the "Extra Tax" space.

It is hard to determine the age of the first two games mentioned and where their design comes from.
The games only mention Damm company as the publisher of these editions, referring to N.W.Damm & Søn, a publishing house founded in 1843 in Olso by Niels Wilhelm Damm. It was taken over by the Danish media group Egmont in 1984.
Damm must have maintained some kind of relations with the games manufacturer Waddington - UK and/or with the games distributors in the neighboring countries Denmark and Sweden, because they all apply a circular distribution of the properties in a "monopoly-like" game but yet under the name Monopol, a name copyrighted by Parker Brothers in America in 1935 for their so well known "Property trading game" with the distribution of the properties in a square.
The oldest known reference to a game with circular distribution is an advertisement in an Icelandic newspaper of Dec.28, 1939 (see chapter Iceland), in which the game is referred to as Miljóner (Matador).
In all Scandinavian countries these games have been published between ±1937 till shortly after WW II.
Comparing these 2 early Norwegian editions to eachother as well as to the early editions of the other Scandinavian countries and Iceland it is resoneable to suppose game (1) to be from ±1937 and game (2) from ±1950.

Hageby-or-Haveby-and Bastoferja-or-Bastoferjen. Torggata-or-Torvgaten-and-Stortorget-or-Stortorvet. ±1937 Monopol-board: From Start (1) onwards all properties are:

Parkveien (2) - Prøv Lykken (Try your luck) (3) - Kirkeveien (4) - Betal 10% i skatt (Income Tax) (5) - N.A.L. (6) - Kongens gate (7) - Prøv Lykken (8) - Prinsens gate (9) - Øvre Slottsgate (10) - Fengsel (Jail) (11) - Nedre Slottgate (12)- Nylands Verksted (13) - Trondhjemsveien (14) - Nobels gate (15) - B.D.S. (16) - Grensen (17) - Prøv Lykken (18) - Gabels gate (19) - Ring gate (20) -Trafikkfyr (21) - Bygdøy allé (22) - Prøv Lykken (23) - Skarpsno (24) - Slemdal (25) - Kosmos (26) - Karl Johans gate (27) - Stortorget (28) - Akers Mek. Verksted (29) - Torggate (30) - De settes i fengsel (You are in jail)(31) - Trosterudveien (32) - Pilestredet (33) - Prøv Lykken (34) - Sinsen (35) - Bastøferja (36) - Prøv Lykken (37) - Ullevål Hageby(38) - Extraordinær formueskatt (39) and Rådhus Plassen (40).

± 1950 Monopol-board: From Start (1) onwards all properties are:

Parkveien (2) - Prøv Lykken (Try your luck) (3) - Kirkeveien (4) - Betal 10% i skatt (Income Tax) (5) - N.A.L. (6) - Kongens gate (7) - Prøv Lykken (8) - Prinsens gate (9) - Øvre Slottsgate (10) - Fengsel (Jail) (11) - Nedre Slottgate (12) - Nylands Verksted (13) - Trondhjems veien (14) - Nobels gate (15) - B.D.S. (16) - Grensen (17) - Prøv Lykken (18) - Gabels gate (19) - Ring gate (20) - Trafikkfyr (21) - Bygdøy allé (22) - Prøv Lykken (23) - Skarpsno (24) - Slemdal (25) - Kosmos (26) - Karl Johans gate (27) - Stortorvet (28) - Akers Mek. Verksted (29) - - Torvgaten (30) - De settes i fengsel (You are in jail)(31) - Trosterud veien (32) - Pilestredet (33) - Prøv Lykken (34) - Sinsen (35) - Bastøfergen (36) - Prøv Lykken (37) - Ullevål Haveby(38) - Extraordinær formueskatt (39) and Rådhus Plassen (40).

Seeing the uniformity of the names of the properties in the different game boards it must surely mean that during all these years, even after Hasbro has revoked its agreements in the 80's with most of its distributors, there still is a special bond between Damm /Egmont and Hasbro.

±1937 Monopol mini box with separate board. Edition: Monopol - small box with separate game board (1)
Publisher: N.W.DAMM & SØN - Oslo - ±1937
Dimensions of the box: 17.2 x 20.0 x 3.2 cm
of the game board: 49.5 x 48.7 cm
The game:
This edition as well as the next one are both from the collection of David Miller - UK. They are those very early editions consisting of a small box for all accessories with a long, separate game board.

Dull-tokens-from-the-1937-edition. That what is immediately obvious in these games:

	The circular distribution of the properties over the game board with a numbering in the inner circle of all 40 spaces.
	The illustration on the small box showing a scenery of a harbor through the windows of a shipping company's office.
	One of the words Monopol in the red circle in the board's center is perpendicular to the Start corner and the other is parallel to the Start space.
	Contrary to the fact what happened with the yellow streets all over the world from the start with Parker Brothers in 1935 till about 1980, viz. the rent on the unbuilt most expensive street to be the same as that of the other 2 has not been copied by the Damm company for their Monopol games! This is very exceptional! See: http://www.muurkrant.nl/monopoly/print_and_production_mistakes.htm
	There is only 1 kind of cards, viz. Prøv Lykken cards. The only space on the board, reserved for the stock cards is called Sjansekort, positioned on top the spaces 33-37 of the board.
	The 6 very different metal tokens compared to those from Parker/Hasbro are: cup - horse - cow - sailing boat - cross-country skier and a milk boy.
	The well-known stations are replaced by shipping lines, although there railways in Norway as well.
	The 6 banknotes are of Damm design, so without little engines and houses. Their nominations are: 10 - 50 - 100 - 500 - 1000 and 5000 (on white paper).
	The Rules are printed on a white paper; only the "spillet inneholder" (content of the game) is listed inside the lid.

Rough wooden houses and hotels. Typical for this edition are:

	Your "salary" over Start is still 2000 Kr(onor).
	The Prøv Lykken cards are large orange cards showing a weave to it, size: 82x43 mm. One of them reads: "Hunden Deres har overfalt mjelkegutten. Betal for tort og skade 100 kroner." (Your dog have attacked the milk boy. Pay for pain and damage 100 kroner.)
	The Parker/Hasbro banknotes
	The blue-green houses and red hotels are made of wood but apparently not cut with a fine blade. See the rough edges and coars grain.
	The end of the Rules show the companies' address at that time: N.W.Damm & Søn Øvre Slottsgate 6 Oslo followed by the note: "Nye pengesedler leveres à Kr.1.-- pr.set." (We can supply a new set of banknotes for Kr.1.- per set.)

The price of this set amounted to US$ 208.- November 2007.

±1950 Monopol mini box. Edition: Monopol - small box with separate game board (2)
Publisher: N.W.DAMM & SØN -Oslo - ±1950
Dimensions of the box: 17.2 x 20.2 x 3.2 cm
of the game board: 49.5 x 48.7 cm
The game:
Except from the different notations of a few properties (see above) this edition from about 15 years later is almost unchanged against version (1).
Smooth wooden houses and hotels.

Typical for this edition are:

	Your salary over Start still is 2000 Kr.
	The Prøv Lykken cards are smooth large orange cards of different size: 80x48 mm.
	The blue-green houses and red hotels are made of wood, but this time they are slightly different in size and the surfaces are smoother.
	The metal tokens of this set are more gleaming than those of set (1).

Gleaming tokens.

White long box, art.nr.92110/10. Edition: Standard long box, ref. 77314, art.nr. 92110/10
Publisher: Parker Brothers - ca. 1968
Dimensions of the box: 26 x 51 cm
The game:
This edition is probably the first one according to the Parker design in Norway since Parker took manufacturing and distribution outside the USA in their own hands. Recognize that there are 2 kinds of cards now, viz.: the pink Prøv Lykken and lightblue Sjanse cards, with the "locomotive-pattern" on their back, while the early Monopol and the actual Millionær editions only apply Prøv Lykken cards stacked on a Sjanse field.

The lid of the white box shows the game board on the left in a green and blue square. Under the red Monopol bar is Rich Uncle Pennybags in a red square, between 2 blue engines. In the red field the number 77314 is mentioned. In the lower left corner is the Parker logo.

The streets and stations in the Parker/Hasbro Norwegian editions from abt.1961 onwards are from Start:

Parkveien - Prøv Lykken (Try your luck) - Kirkeveien - Betal 10% i skat (Income Tax) - Oslo Stasjon - Kongens gate - Sjanse - Prinsens gate - Øvre Slottsgate - Fängsel/ Bare på besøk (Jail) - Nedre Slottgate - Oslo Lysverker (Oslo Electric Comp.) - Trondheims veien - Nobels gate - Skøyen stasjon - Grensen - Prøv Lykken - Gabels gate - Ring gate - Gratis parkering - Bygdøy allé - Sjanse - Skarpsno - Slemdal - Grorud stasjon - Karl Johans gate - Stortorget - Vannverket (Water Works) - Torggate - De settes i fengsel - Trosterud veien - Pilestredet - Prøv Lykken - Sinsen - Bryn stasjon - Sjanse - Ullevål Hageby and Rådhus Plassen.

Over Start you will collect Kr.20,000.

The fold in the board is parallel to sides 2 and 4.
On the dark green centrefield of the board is the word Monopol in black characters (without frame), parallel to the first side. The back side of the gameboard is blue. The execution of the gameboard, with the blue treasure chest on the Prøv Lykken field, the ring on the Luksus Skatt field and the black locomotive on the stations, is according to Parker Brothers (not Waddingtons).
The innerbox contains but one red plastic insert with 13 holes in total for the banker. The one sided printed banknotes are Monopoly money, "pat.app.for No 3796-36".
The dimentions of the attributes are of the:

	banknotes: 49 x 95 mm
	property cards: 55 x 85 mm
	Prøv Lykken en Sjansekort: 55 x 84 mm

The 8 metal tokens are resp. hat, shoe, iron, thimble, car, dog, wheel-barrow, and rider-on-horse.
The dark green houses and red hotels are of plastic.
The 2 wooden dice are red with gold pips.

Similarities and differences between this Norwegian set and the corresponding American and Dutch sets:

NORWAY	AMERICA	HOLLAND
no such mention on top the red bar	Parker Brothers Real Estate Trading Game Equipment	Licentie Parker Brothers U.S.A.
art.nr. 92110/10	ref.nr.9	ref. 602
nr. 77314® in red space	no number in red space	nr. 77314® in red space
no currency mark	$-mark under red space	no currency mark
no name in square	name in blue square	name in blue square
1 red plastic insert	white tray + red insert	red tray + red insert
no mention of kind of tokens; 8 metal tokens	the red insert tells what kind of tokens	the red insert tells what kind of tokens
back of the board blue	back of the board blue	back of the board blue
blank bottom	blank bottom	blank bottom
printed in France	manufactured in Salem-Mass.	printed in France

The price of this set amounted to Nkr. 98.- (€12.65) in December 1984.

Millionaer, ref.nr.11010 from 1992. Edition: Millionær long box, ref.nr. 11010 (1)
Publisher: Egmont Litor AS - Oslo - 1992
Dimensions of the box: 23 x 44.6 cm
The game:
Since Parker Brothers continued marketing their Monopoly game in Norway themselfs, Damm/Egmont continued selling their very similar game under the name of Millionær.
It may be well possible this new edition has been designed for the upcoming wedding of Crown Prince Haakon with the middle-class girl Mette-Marit in August 2001?
Not only was the most expensive street Rådhus Plassen replaced on the playboard by Slottsplassen but there was an additional large, yellow castle added to the stock of buildings, to be used as a hotel on the Slottplassen street.

Slottsplassen met Konlijk Paleis. Karl Johans Gate in front of the Royal Palace.
The properties are in this 1992 edition of Millionær from Start (1)
onwards:

Frognerveien (2) - Prøv Lykken (Try your luck) (3) - Kirkeveien (4) -
Betal 10% i skatt (Income Tax) (5) - N.A.L. (6) - Kongens gate (7) -
Prøv Lykken (8) -Drottningens gate (9) - Kongensgate (10) - På
besøk ved passering/Fengsel (Jail) (11) - Nedre Slottgate (12) -SAS
(13) - Grensen (14) - Tordenksioldgate (15) - B.D.S. (16) -
Trondheimsveien (17) - Prøv Lykken (18) - Mosseveien (19) -
Drammensveien (20) - Trafikkfyr (21) - Bygdøy (22) - Prøv
Lykken (23) - Holmenkollen (24) - Slemdal (25) - Kosmos (26) -
Karl Joh. gate (27) - Studenterlunden (28) - Braathens Safe (29)
- Stortingsgaten (30) - De settes i fengsel (You are in jail)(31) -
Lambertseter (32) - Vålerengen - Prøv Lykken (34) - Sinsen (35) -
Bastøfergen (36) - Prøv Lykken (37) - Ullevål Haveby(38) -
Extraordinær formueskatt (39) and Slottsplassen (40).
Typical for this edition are:

	There is no content of the box mentioned, nor inside the lid, nor on the outside.
	Your "salary" over Start will be 20,000 Kr(onor), so 10 times as much as in 1937.
	The backside of the board is red, the play side is turned outwards.
	The insert in the innerbox, the socalled "bankers tray" is of black plastic. It has 5 holes and a money tray.
	The Prøv Lykken cards are white with a blue ? on one side, size: 91x60 mm. One of them reads: "Hev renter av din skattefrie banksparing med 5.000 kroner." (Raise the interest on your tax-free banksavings by 5.000 kroner.)
	The tokens are 6 simple, hollow, colored plastic cars.
	The 6 banknotes are of Damm design, so without little engines and houses, but with the Damm-logo. Their denominations are: 100 - 500 - 1000 - 5000 - 10000 (on grey paper) and 50 000 .
	The houses have wood color, the hotels are blue.
	The Rules are printed on a yellow sheet.
	Both dice are red.

This game is manufactured in Holland by the Nederlandse Spellen Fabriek (NSF).
Millionær was still available in all Norwegian Toyshops and Books and Paper shops at the price of NOK 279,- (€ 36.-).

Standard long box from 1993. Edition: Standard long box, ref. 06951NO
Publisher: Parker/Hasbro Scandinavia A.S. - 1993
Dimensions of the box: 26 x 51 cm
The game:
This is one of the early editions made in the Irish works, so with the fourth side of the gameboard on the lid, showing the collection of attributes on a green background. The bottom side of the box shows the well-known color picture of the laughing family.
The back of the game board is red, like the plastic insert of the innerbox.
The back of the Sjanse cards is printed with a red ?, while the Prøv Lykken cards are printed with the blue treasure chest.
The banknotes are not as shown on the lid but with "Monopoli® - Monopoly® - Monopol®" in a circle as well as the note "© 1992 Tonka Corporation".
Tje 10 tokens are of heavy metal and "made in China".
The plastic houses do have a chimney, the hotels don't.

The price of this set amounted to Nkr 269 (€34.70) in 1997.

New sized box, ref. 14535 from 1996. Edition: Standard edition, ref. 14535
Spillet om eiendommer og rikdom
Publisher: Parker/Tonka Corp./Hasbro Scand.A.S.-1996
Dimensions of the box: 26.8 x 40.3 x 5.3 cm
of the double folded board: 25.2 x 25.2 cm
The game:
Remarkable of this game are the new dimensions of the box. Hasbro advises that this is because of "standardisation" of the shapes of their sets. So from now on the long box we till so far called "Standard" disappears.
In this new box is one red, plastic insert containing 7 slots for the banknotes, 10 slots for the property cards and 4 trays for the other equipment.
The board is folded in four, like in the so called "small box". Its back is red, the play side is blue green. The word Monopol stays in black characters and in a frame diagonal wise over the board. This set is made in Ireland and so it has a picture of the laughing family on the bottom again.

Your salary at the Start corner will be Kr. 4.000.
On the game board are those nice Sjanse- and Prøv Lykken cards. They are white with the text in a frame printed in red. The back side of the Prøv Lykken cards is blue with a treasure chest in a yellow field; those of the Sjanse cards is red with the ? in a yellow field as well.
The property cards do not have rounded corners as a result of what they look like slightly larger (dim.: 56 x 87 mm). The back side of these white cards is printed red.
The banknotes are of the new model, viz. with a black ribbon with "Monopoly with Uncle Pennybags" in the upper part of the circle and, hardly visible, the remark "1996 Tonka Corporation" in the lower right corner.
The 10 tokens are of pewter (without the mention "made in China").
The green plastic houses do have a chimney, the red hotels don't!
Both the dice are white.

This set was made in Ireland.

Red box, ref.11010 (2), ±2001 Edition: Millionær long box, ref.nr. 11010 (2)
Publisher: Egmont Litor AS - Oslo - ±2001
Dimensions of the box: 23 x 44.6 cm
The game:
This box is almost exactly the same as the former one, except for a few differences. Houses, hotels Castle.

Typical for this edition are:

	The content of this box is shown in a blue ribbon on the lid's left side.
	Your "salary" over Start will be 20,000 Kr(onor).
	The backside of the board is black, the play side is turned inwards.
	The insert in the innerbox, the socalled "bankers tray" is of black plastic. It has 4 holes, one of them for the dice only, and a money tray.
	The Prøv Lykken cards are white with a blue ? on one side, sizes: 91x60 mm. One of them reads: "Etter tante Olga på Toten har du arvet 4 katter, en grønn papegøye, 16 juletrær på rot (uten pynt) og 10.000 kroner som utbetales av banken." (Because aunt Olga died you inherited 4 cats,1 green parrot, 16 christmas trees on the root (without garnish) and 10.000 kroner paid by the bank.)
	The tokens are 6 simple, hollow, colored plastic cars.
	The 6 banknotes are of Damm design, so without little engines and houses, but with the Damm-logo. Their denominations are: 100 - 500 - 1000 - 5000 - 10000 (on grey paper) and 50 000 .
	The houses have wood color, the hotels are blue.
	The Rules are printed on a yellow sheet.
	Both dice are red.

Millionaer edition square box from ±2009. Edition: Millionær square box, ref.nr. 110101
Publisher: Egmont Litor AS - Oslo - ±2009
Dimensions of the box: ±23 x ±23 cm
The game:
I encountered this square box somewhere on Internet, apparently being the latest edition so far.

This assumption was confirmed by the fact that the Rules of the last 3 Millionær editions from Egmont Serieforlaget AS Oslo can be ordered at:

http://spillregler.egmont.no/Million%C3%A6r_1992.pdf
http://spillregler.egmont.no/Million%C3%A6r_2004.pdf
http://spillregler.egmont.no/Million%C3%A6r_2009.pdf

A lady from the NSF company in Wognum - NL told me (November 2011) these games are still manufactured by them in Holland.

Millionær (11010)

06-01-2012:
Today it appeared this latest issue, again under ref. 110101, was publised in 2011.

The price of this edition amounted to NKR 298, - (€ 38,85) at this moment.

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Number of versions: 8

Edition: June 16, 1999 Rewritten: January 8, 2012

Edition: June 16, 1999
Rewritten: January 8, 2012