How Monopoly Helped WWII Prisoners Get Out of POW Camps Free

How one manufacturer created top-secret Monopoly sets to help prisoners of war escape

Disguised as a marketing move, Monopoly released the “Deluxe Edition” we still have today (Background by Mark_fleming, CC BY-SA 2.0)

As a teenager, Christopher Hutton had watched Harry Houdini escape from a packing crate. He couldn’t help but conclude the box must have been deliberately altered.