Brits baffled as hundreds of Monopoly board games suddenly appear on driveway

A huge pile of Hasbro's classic board game Monopoly has bizarrely appeared on the driveway in front of a bungalow, prompting several theories as to how they got there

A Brit has been left baffled after hundreds of Monopoly board games appeared in the front garden of a home in their neighbourhood.

Taking to Reddit, they shared a snap of their unorthodox discovery, showcasing a huge pile of Monopoly boxes on the overgrown driveway of a bungalow. "Anyone wanna play monopoly? Got a neighbour who's getting rid of a few sets," they quipped.

"Just for reference, I have no idea what's going on," they added. "I just walked past this house and it looks abandoned." They weren't just your standard versions of the Hasbro classic either, for the heap included a wide variety of editions - from Elf and Minions to World Football Stars.

It prompted scores of wild theories about how the bizarre sight came to be. "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," one person suggested.

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"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."

A second Reddit user pondered: "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 joked: "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."

While a fourth added: "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, meanwhile, pointed out the value of the pile, noting that various modern editions of Monopoly range in price from around £15 to £30 depending on their collectability. "That is like at least a couple thousand pounds' worth of Monopoly just left there to rot, sad to see," one person said.