The Landlord’s Game became popular with his students, who shared it among their friends. The game was played by like-minded socialists, eventually making its way in 1910 to Scott Nearing, a professor at The Wharton School and Swarthmore College. Her hope was that players would reject the game’s winner-take-all strategy, which results in only one player owning all of the game’s land while everyone else is driven into bankruptcy. The intent of the game was to demonstrate the evils of concentrated landownership.
Magie created The Landlord's Game and applied for a patent in 1903. Magie was particularly influenced by Henry George, whose 1879 book, Progress and Poverty, espoused a belief that workers should own what they produce, but that the natural resources and economic rents derived from land should be owned by society as a whole.
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