10 Board Games That Lead To Real-Life Violence

2. The Monopoly Murders

It’s not really that surprising, is it. Like, if I told you that in the 80 years of its existence that one of the most frustrating, luck-driven and cruel-spirited games ever made has led to actual human murder, it just seems legit, and sure enough Monopoly has blood on its hands. In Santa Fe, New Mexico a woman called Laura Chavez attacked her boyfriend Clyde with a kitchen knife when she suspected him of cheating, in 2009 a man in Michigan attacked a friend when she refused to sell him Park Place and Boardwalk. In both those cases, thankfully no one died, but there have been Monopoly deaths, of course there have. In 1991, a young couple murdered a 56 year old man they were lodging with at the time after a blowup over the game. In in an even more insane story, two friends, Marc Cienkowski and Michael Klucznik, who argued over monopoly house rules (we’ve all been there) but then this argument escalated to the point where Marc shot his friend Michael in the chest with a bow and arrow, killing him. We haven’t all been there. All things considered, that awkward drunken scene your dad made over a monopoly board last Christmas doesn’t seem quite so bad now.