The Monopoly X game board — as this reconstruction shows — hid useful items for prisoners of war.© Philip E. Orbanes How a Monopoly board helped World War II prisoners get out of jail free ...

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One police station is handing out Get Out of Jail Free cards, but unlike a game of Monopoly there's some fine print. The Bath Township Police Department posted an offer for local residents to come ...

Authorities said Haro had written codes onto the famed “Get out of jail free” card from the Monopoly board game, and then sent the card in a letter from prison to facilitate the drug ...

A “Get out of jail free” card from the game Monopoly was found by Massachusetts Department of Correction officials. But the code on the back wasn’t part of game night.

In the bitter winter of 1941, British military prisoners in Nazi-occupied Germany huddled around a Monopoly set, dazzled by the contents that awaited them. They didn’t pluck Community Chest cards.