Sudden appearance of hundreds of Monopoly boxes leaves neighbourhood puzzled

People have been left scratching their heads following the discovery of hundreds of Monopoly board games dumped in a front garden. One baffled local took to Reddit to share a photo of the bizarre sight, which showed a huge pile of boxes of the popular game on the overgrown driveway of a bungalow.

"Anyone wanna play monopoly? Got a neighbour who's getting rid of a few sets," they joked. "Just for reference, I have no idea what's going on, I just walked past this house and it looks abandoned."

The collection wasn't just made up of standard versions of the Hasbro classic either, with editions ranging from Elf and Minions to World Football Stars. The strange spot duly sparked a flurry of wild theories about how it came to be.

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One person suggested: "To come up with a totally random theory, perhaps someone who collected them died, and the family didn't know what to do with them, reselling didn't seem worth it since it's such a niche thing to collect without much resale value.

"So they chucked them out while cleaning the house, maybe planning on getting a tip in to collect them at some point. I'd imagine there are funko pops collections which may experience a similar fate, if the next of kin don't have storage to stick them all in boxes and forget about them."

Another Reddit user speculated: "My guess is messy divorce. They know they'll be round in a couple of days to save the collection so the collection is spending those days in the rain."

A third quipped: "My guess is that the wife of a board game collector found out he had been playing tiddlywinks with another woman and when he'd gone off to the national Ludo convention she dumped his prized Monopoly collection on the drive and changed the locks."

Meanwhile, a fourth pondered: "My guess is someone has cleared out a warehouse/storage unit of unsold stock and flytipped everything at this abandoned house? Either that or a hoarder/collector/reseller lived at this house and has died or been sent to a home.

"The latter doesn't seem so likely to me though as whoever would do that would be a monumental moron to not just give them to charity, try to sell them or at the very least put it all in a skip."

Others noted the potential value of the discarded games, with some modern editions of Monopoly fetching between £15 to £30. "That is like at least a couple thousand pounds' worth of Monopoly just left there to rot, sad to see," lamented one observer.