Errors and Omissions

How much does Reading Railroad cost again?

From today's Times:

An article on Friday about Hasbro's decision to eliminate Atlantic City as the setting of its flagship version of Monopoly misstated the cost of putting a hotel on Ventnor Avenue and referred imprecisely to another property, Marvin Gardens. A hotel on Ventnor costs $750 ($150 each for four houses and another $150 for the hotel), not $400. Marvin Gardens was the final property created by Charles B. Darrow, the man who devised the game for Parker Brothers in the 1930's; the final space on the board is Boardwalk. The article also misspelled the name of the neighborhood in Margate City, N.J., that inspired Marvin Gardens. It is Marven Gardens, not Marvyn. (Go to Article)

Perhaps the writers and editors are rushing a bit, put off stride by the pressures of needing to update web sites with new content throughout the day, but two of the primary errors listed here (out of the no fewer than four errors total!) could have been avoided by merely looking at the game board.

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posted by Unknown @ 5/03/2006 08:45:00 AM