A closer look
Parker Brothers claims that the longest recorded continuous game of Monopoly in human history lasted an excruciating 70 straight days. One has to wonder what profound level of psychological torture or sheer unemployment led these individuals to subject themselves to over two months of negotiating fake real estate and going directly to jail without passing go. Monopoly is already universally recognized as the absolute fastest way to permanently ruin a friendship or trigger a bitter holiday family dispute in under three hours. The idea that multiple people willingly dragged out this brutal capitalistic simulation for nearly a fifth of a year suggests they were either participating in a bizarre social experiment or simply lacked the physical strength required to finally flip the board over
