10 Controversial Board Games That Got BANNED

3. Gay Monopoly, Ghettopoly and Queue

So many Monopolies.

Pretty easy way to make a buck in board gaming, stick the word opoly onto something and wait for the cash from confused grandparents to trickle in.

Step right up three different ripoffs, which all saw the same fate. Gay Monopoly was a game created by Fire Island games and look it’s got Tom of Finland artwork on it, that’s awesome!

The game was a straight up, made-with-love parody from airquotes The Parker Sisters and yeah Parker Brothers sure put paid to that, hitting it with a storm of legal action.

Ghettopoly was also sued by Hasbro (who now owns Monopoly), but not before the game was blackballed from retailers like Urban Outfitters. People were cross about this.

And finally a polish game called Kolejka, which translates as Queue, which saw players desperately try and struggle to acquire basic human necessities under the old soviet regime, was branded by the Polish press as Communist Monopoly and unsurprisingly banned for sale by the Russian government who have just the best sense of humour don’t they.

Look at them, happy as clams.