Answers!

The Answers for Some of the Mystery Questions...
Q:  When Does A Bill Become a Beak on a Bird?
A:  The truth is there is no difference!  Bill is generally accepted as a scientific term, were as beak is a 'normal' word.  A.K.A. spoken by us people who don't have a p.h.d. in science.

Q:  Why Does Monopoly have Such Weird Playing Tokens?
A:  To answer this, it's time for some history.  In the early 1930's, "inventor" (he actually borrowed from two existing games) Charles Darrow self-published his game 'Monopoly'.  The great success of the game brought the attention of the Parker Brothers, who bought the rights to Monopoly in 1934.  When the Parkers bought the game, the instructions told you to use buttons or beads.  So in the 1935-1936 used wooden tokens that looked like pawns.  Chess pawns.  Did I say boring?  Boring.  So the Parker Bro's made metal tokens in the shapes of a car, flatiron, lantern, thimble, shoe, top hat, and rocking horse.  Later, a battleship and cannon were added - 10 tokens.  The lantern, purse and rocking horse were kicked out in favor of the horse and rider, dog, and wheel barrow.  Finally a sack of money was added to promote the true spirit of the game.  So no tokens, to boring ones, to cool ones.  Maybe we'll have electronic boards with hologram projectors attached.  You tap the start square to start and each person says an image.  Then you tap your way around the board.  COOL!

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