Editing Board game (section)

===Golden era===

The 1880s–1920s was a board game epoch known as the "Golden Age", a term coined by American art historian Margaret Hofer<ref name="golden-era_hofer_2003"/> where the popularity of board games was boosted through [[mass production]] making them cheaper and more readily available.<ref name="Hofer">{{Cite book|last=Hofer|first=Margaret|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icYtGRUZrZUC|title=The Games we Played: The Golden Age of Board and Table Games|date=1 March 2003|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|isbn=978-1-56898-397-4|language=en}}</ref>{{rp|11}} The most popular of the board games sold during this period was ''Monopoly'' (1935), with 500 million games played as of 1999.<ref name="monopoly_guiness-world-records_current(2025)">{{cite web|title=Most popular board game|website=Guinness World Records (www.guinnessworldrecords.com)|language=en|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/72473-most-popular-board-game|access-date=6 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426181116/https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/72473-most-popular-board-game|archive-date=26 April 2022|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref>