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Monopoly Game Tokens

Take a walk on the Boardwalk! Can you name the tokens that have been used in the standard U.S. edition?
Source: Wikipedia.
The train was only available in the deluxe version
Quiz by CBTemple
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Last updated: November 13, 2018
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First submittedApril 23, 2012
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Years
Token
1937–
Battleship
1937–
Racecar
1937–
Top hat
1942–
Scottie dog
2013–
Cat
2017–
Penguin
Years
Token
2017–
Rubber duck
2017–
T-Rex
1937–2017
Boot
1937–2017
Thimble
1942–2017
Wheelbarrow
1937–2013
Iron
Years
Token
1999–2007
Sack of money
1937–2000
Cannon
1942–2000
Horse and rider
1937–1942
Lantern
1937–1942
Purse
1937–1942
Rocking horse
63 Comments
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Level 44
Sep 12, 2012
ha, I got cannon but not iron. wow. 8/12
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Level 44
Jan 18, 2015
haha I got the cannon but forgot the stupid easy ones like wheelbarrow and the boot
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Level 37
Jan 18, 2013
I don't remember the canon or the sack of money... are they in more recent editions?
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Level 39
Jan 7, 2020
No. Much older ones.
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Level 72
Jan 7, 2020
No sack of money is a new invention.
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Level 35
Jun 21, 2014
I thought they recently changed the thimble to a cat? You should make a Canada version too. We have a hamburger, and air plane, a cellphone, a roller skate, and more.
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Level 94
Jul 14, 2014
As @MissTaylor133 noted, the Cat was added in 2013 (though I think it replaced the iron, not the thimble).
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Level ∞
Sep 5, 2014
The quiz has been updated.
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Level 94
Sep 8, 2014
Yay! Thanks QM.
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Level 74
Jul 16, 2014
I kept confusing some of these with Clue weapons - rope, wrench, candlestick, etc.
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Level 83
Oct 20, 2014
Ditto.
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Level 83
Dec 4, 2015
In my house we tend to use Cluedo weapons and other game pieces as counters because half the Monopoly ones are missing.
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Level 72
Jan 7, 2020
Same, wait no, the other way around I think. I think we had a Monopoly piece we used for Cluedo. Since for cluedo it is necessary to have all the pieces while for monopoly you usually dont play with 10 people, so in our case we only needed 3 pieces to use to go around the board. (And the type doesnt matter)
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Level 72
Jan 7, 2020
Im trying to remember, I think it was the iron that took on the role as a weapon, not sure what it replaced though... I think the dagger.
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Level 68
Oct 18, 2014
Why would they retire the horse and rider? That was one of the best ones. Much better than the thimble or the top hat!
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Level 18
Oct 18, 2014
There were other retired ones too but oh well!
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Level 76
Nov 5, 2014
We always warred over who would get the top hat. So much that I hardly remembered any other tokens.
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Level 66
Nov 13, 2019
In my house, we always warred over the thimble.
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Level 86
Nov 13, 2014
Battleship?! When did they add that?
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Level 68
Jan 15, 2015
That was in the original.
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Level 61
Apr 15, 2024
1937.
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Level 66
May 26, 2015
You won't take AAgun, anti-aircraft gun, or just gun for the cannon?!
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Level 78
Jan 20, 2022
no...because it's a cannon. Which were around far before aircrafts.
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Level 26
Jun 4, 2015
Aww I loved the iron :(
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Level 85
Nov 22, 2019
Somewhere along the way, I started using the iron...and then just always used the iron. Everyone always fought over the dog or the race car, but I never had any competition for the iron. Made it easy to always get the one I wanted, I guess.
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Level 65
Jun 16, 2015
Small mistake: there should be a question mark after the description, no period. :)
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Level 65
Oct 11, 2015
Clarification: I don't have OCD btw, just wanted to let you know.
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Level 72
Jan 7, 2020
Thanks for letting us know :)
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Level 70
Aug 11, 2015
I just learned that my parents' Monopoly game was missing tokens...I had never seen the horse & rider, bag of money, wheelbarrow, or cat.
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Level 72
Jan 7, 2020
They would only have a bag of money and a cat if they bought the game relatively recent. Usually games like that stay in the family so it is most likely people have versions older than 2000.
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Level 90
Apr 9, 2017
This fall, the thimble, boot, and wheelbarrow will be replaced by a penguin, duck, and t-rex.
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Level 74
Jun 25, 2018
Sigh.
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Level 72
Jan 7, 2020
I would have loved to have played with a t rex haha
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Level 83
Apr 9, 2017
Wow, in my country we only had different coloured pieces :)
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Level 40
May 25, 2017
How did i miss battleship?? It was all I ever used to play as
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Level 75
Mar 3, 2018
Quiz needs to be updated. Thimble, wheelbarrow and boot have been retired while T-rex, rubber duck, and penguin have been added.
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Level 76
Mar 4, 2018
Why were the classics retired for no reason?
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Level 75
Mar 5, 2018
Hasbro let everyone vote for which tokens would be added to monopoly or retired.
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Level 74
Jun 25, 2018
They didn't ask me, so it's not everyone.
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Level 81
Mar 4, 2018
The version I played was from the 1980s.
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Level 66
Mar 4, 2018
Dinosaur for t-rex?
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Level 74
Jun 24, 2018
Knew the thimble but couldn't recall its name for the life of me. Forgot Iron as well, probably because I never played with it.
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Level 57
Jun 24, 2018
Lived my whole life thinking it was "wheelbarrel". After searching the Internet, it's not that uncommon.
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Level 75
Apr 15, 2024
I looked at "wheelbarrel" in your comment for ages wondering what was wrong with it ... until it suddenly hit me! I don't think I've ever seen it spelled like that before but it certainly doesn't seem crazy.
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Level 64
Jun 24, 2018
As a kid my parents had an old set that had colored wooden tokens, simiilar to chess pieces. I always thought that those were the right ones, until I played at a friends house and they had these metal things!!

Doing a search now, I find out the wooden ones date pre 1937! (or perhaps a short period during WW2).

PS.

It had plastic houses/hotels, but the 8 colored wooden tokens, so not sure what era it's from.

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Level 81
Jun 24, 2018
"dinosaur" and "tyrannosaurus" not acceptable for "T-Rex?"
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Level ∞
Jun 25, 2018
Fixed, thanks
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Level 90
Jun 25, 2018
Plz accept dinosaur for T-rex. You also don't specify which breef of cat or dog it is.
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Level 67
Apr 17, 2024
You think T-Rex is a breed of dinosaur? ;)
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Level 73
Jun 25, 2018
My family wasn't big enough for me to play Monopoly on a regular basis, but I want the thimble back. When I played, it was either with that or the hat.
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Level 90
Jun 25, 2018
Anyone ever play steadfast by the rules? It takes all week.
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Level 68
Apr 14, 2024
No, 45 minutes if you read the rules!
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Level 83
Jun 25, 2018
Racecar my favorite.
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Level 15
Jun 26, 2018
I remembered only two tokens from movie "Over The Hedge".

RJ: [getting out Monopoly game pieces] Now, this is us.

Hammy: Can I be the car?

Bucky: I wanna be the car!

Spike: I'm the car! You be the shoe.

Bucky: Shoe is lame.

Lou: Why don't you be that snazzy lookin' iron there?

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Level 39
Jan 7, 2020
They also have a bathtub token.
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Level 60
Mar 6, 2020
What about the spinning wheel?
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Level 75
Apr 16, 2020
I wondered about the spinning wheel too, presumably they don't have it in the American version.
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Level 58
Dec 2, 2020
I think you're mistaking the cannon for a spinning wheel
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Level 75
Apr 14, 2024
Ok so I only just realised that the spinning wheel is actually a cannon!
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Level 76
May 15, 2023
My mother still insists that the battleship is actually a factory.
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Level 65
Apr 14, 2024
I have the older version of monopoly which has the lantern in it, and I always played as it, but I always thought it was a bell and not a lantern. I have played as that piece so many times and I kept trying it in this quiz, but it kept not working. I am shocked.
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Level 75
Apr 15, 2024
My Peruvian version (2010) has an inline skate, aeroplane, F1 car, mobile phone, skateboard and hamburger. A disappointing selection - nothing classic and nothing remotely to do with Peru.

Annoyingly, I see that the newer Peruvian version has the classic top hat and battleship, plus a guitar, football, mototaxi, and llama!

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Level 67
Apr 17, 2024
Was going to complain that the Tank was missing but it looks like the USA has different tokens to the UK - where Thimble has returned! It replaced the T-Rex, and I still don't get why there was a T-Rex for this property management game...

We also never had the purse or lantern.