Detroit scores spot on new Monopoly board

Detroit has scored a spot on a new edition of the classic Monopoly board, Hasbro announced today, the game's 80th birthday.

The Motor City is a red property along with Boston and Milwaukee.

Fans were asked to pick which cities to include and Detroit garnered the ninth-most votes. (Pierre, S.Dak., got the most.)

The layout of the new Monopoly Here & Now: U.S. Edition, in order from most to least expensive, is:

Dark blue: Pierre, S.D..; Minneapolis

Green: New York; Virginia Beach, Va.; Los Angeles

Yellow: Chicago, Indianapolis. Charleston, S.C.

Red: Detroit, Boston, Milwaukee

Orange: Cleveland; Asheville, N.C..; Denver

Magenta: Atlanta, Little Rock, Seattle

Light blue: Portsmouth, N.H.; Charlotte, N.C., Dallas

Brown: Waconia, Minn.; Chesapeake, Va.

The edition go on sale in the fall.

"It's great that so many people voted for the city of Detroit to be included in the new Monopoly game," John Roach, Mayor Mike Duggan's spokesman, told the Free Press in an e-mail. "Like a lot of other Detroit-themed merchandise lately, it should be very popular."

Pawtucket, R.I.-based Hasbro also is unveiling a new Monopoly Here & Now: World Edition, which includes China, Peru, Russia, Greece, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, Latvia, England and Serbia. All countries, except the Netherlands, have only one city on the board; the Western European nation has Amsterdam and Giethoorn. The United States is represented by New York.

According to Hasbro which had joined forces on this project with BuzzFeed, 4 million votes in 182 countries were cast.

Today is World Monopoly Day, marking the day in 1935 when Parker Brothers got the rights to the game from Charles Darrow.

In the interim eight decades, the game has been translated into 47 languages and has been played by more than 1 billion people in 114 countries, Hasbro said.

"Inviting our fans to get involved in the creation of the newest MONOPOLY game was a great way to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the brand," Jonathan Berkowitz, vice president of global marketing for gaming at Hasbro, said in a statement. "It was amazing to see both fans and local organizations around the world rally behind their cities and we were wowed by the overwhelming pride people displayed during the Here & Now vote."

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Monopoly statistics

No. of players: 1 billion-plus in 114 countries

No. of languages translated into: 47

Longest game: 70 straight days

Most expensive version: $2 million (23-carat gold board, diamond-studded dice)

No. of houses and hotels built since 1935: 6 billion-plus and 2.25 billion, respectively