Atlantic City version

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The board consists of 40 squares, containing 28 properties, 3 "Chance" squares, 3 "Community Chest" squares, a "Luxury Tax" square, an "Income Tax" square, "GO", "Jail", "Free Parking", and "Go to Jail". In the US version shown below, the properties are named after locations in Atlantic City, NJ.

Standard (American Edition) Monopoly game board layout
GO ⇒ Mediterranean Avenue
$60
Community Chest Baltic Avenue
$60
Income Tax
Pay 10% or $200
Reading Railroad
$200
Oriental Avenue
$100
Chance Vermont Avenue
$100
Connecticut Avenue
$120
Jail
              
Boardwalk
$400
   Monopoly    St. Charles Place
$140
Luxury Tax
Pay $75
Electric Company
$150
Park Place
$350
      States Avenue
$140
Chance    Virginia Avenue
$160
Short Line
$200
Pennsylvania Railroad
$200
Pennsylvania Avenue
$320
      St. James Place
$180
Community Chest Community Chest
North Carolina Avenue
$300
      Tennessee Avenue
$180
Pacific Avenue
$300
      New York Avenue
$200
Go To Jail    Water Works
$150
      B&O Railroad
$200
      Chance    Free Parking
Marvin Gardens
$280
Ventnor Avenue
$260
Atlantic Avenue
$260
Illinois Avenue
$240
Indiana Avenue
$220
Kentucky Avenue
$220


Note that Marvin Gardens on the above board is actually a misspelling of the original street name, Marven Gardens. The misspelling was originally introduced by Charles Todd, whose home-made Monopoly board was copied by Charles Darrow and subsequently used as the basis of their design by Parker Brothers. They have never corrected the error. Short Line was not a real railroad but a bus line that had a depot in Atlantic City, and Atlantic City does not have a Water Works -- its water is piped in from the New Jersey "mainland" through two pipes.