Locals can purchase a Bendigo Monopoly board after it was officially unveiled yesterday.
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The game was manufactured and customised by Winning Moves.
Their spokesmen, Michael Counsell, told Robbo on The Wake Up Call yesterday that that they judge a potential monopoly location by parallels with the original.
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“For us when we looked at Bendigo, it was almost a question of ‘why haven’t we done it yet?’,” he said
He added the game’s still a family favourite.
“So, our latest stats shows the game is played by over 1 billion people, globally, in over a 114 countries.”
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The custom themed squares on the Bendigo MONOPOLY board are:
Brown – Rosalind Park and The Capital
Light Blue – Golden Dragon Museum, Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo Art Gallery
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Pink – Drummond Golf, Queen Elizabeth Oval, Bendigo Jockey Club
Orange – Bendigo Pottery, Central Deborah Gold Mine, Bendigo Showgrounds
Red – Pall Mall, Lansell Square, Bendigo Marketplace
Yellow – JM Leech Jeweller, Cambrian Hotel, All Seasons
Green – Jenny’s Kindergarten, Victory Christian College, Bendigo Health
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Image: David Stewart, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
