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Friday, January 11, 2013

Monopoly Piece Will No Longer Pass Go

The makers of the popular board game has asked the public to choose a token for retirement and its replacement.

Each time the Monopoly box is cracked open, one of two things happens right away: Everybody rushes to get the best piece, and somebody is bummed that they got the one token nobody ever wants. Well, now is your chance to vote that one token out of the box. Hasbro, the makers of the real estate-based board game, has started a campaign where fans can choose which of the eight classic tokens will be retired, and which of five possible replacements will be added to the mix. Votes can be cast at the "Save Your Token" Facebook page from now until the contest ends on Feb. 5. The token with the fewest votes will be removed and replaced with the new token that earned the most votes for games that hit the shelves in mid to late 2013. To review, the …

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