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Number of versions: 8
Edition: February 25, 1998
Revised: December 19, 2010
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December 2010 I found Mr. Chadli Grati founded the Ranim
Jeux company in Tunis in 1963. He presumably started his site http://www.ranimjeux.com/ not
until early 2008.
He classifies his Monopoly editions under his group "Educational Games".
Tunisia is one of the few countries where the streets on the game board are
not those of a (capital) city, nor of a number of cities of the country, but very
general occurring streets.
The design of the board is that of Parker Brothers, so with the black
engines on the station spaces, the blue treasury
on the Community Chest spaces and the gold ring with diamond on the "Luxury
Tax" space.
In French they are from Départ onwards:
Rue 9 avril 1938 - Rue
Amilar - Gare de Tunis - Rue d'Antar -
Rue d'Annabar - Ave.
de la République - En prison/Simple visite - Ave.
Mohammed V - Société Tunisienne de l'Ëlectricité et du Gaz ( STEG) -
Ave. Hdi Chaker - Rue
Ebin Khaldoun - Gare de Sousse - Rue
Achmed Tlili - Ave. Ali Belhoune -
Pace de l'Afrique - Parc gratuit - Place
Yugurtha - Ave. Carthage - Ave.
Farhat Haced - Gare de Sfax - Boulevard
Bab Bnet - Place
Mohammed Ali - Societé Nationale d' Exploitation et de
Distribution des Eaux (SONEDE) - Rue
Bab Souika - Allez en prison - Ave.
de la Liberté
- Rue de Palestine - Boulevard
du 20 Mars - Gare de Gabes - Ave.
Khareddine Pacha and Ave. Habib Bourguiba.
The stations are those of the large cities along the long railway line
to Libia, viz.: Tunis, Sousse, Sfax and Gabes.
Version: Standard
- long box,
ref. 500
Publisher: Ranim Jeux - Tunis - ±1990
Dimensions of the box: 50 x 26 cm
The game:
Because of the fact that in 1985 (after 50 years) the Parker Brothers patent was
expired everybody can accurately copy Monopoly. And that is what what Mr. Chadi
Grati in Tunesia has done.
The board has the well-known appearance of the Parker Brothers issues, so
with the black engine at the station spaces pointing to the left, apart from the
language which is of course only Arabic. Under the Arabic characters for Monopoly is no reference whatsoever to any
patent.
The gameboard is solid and shows a " wallpaper pattern" at
the back. Of course the most expansive street is named after the (beloved) first
president of the country: Habib Bourguiba.
The innerbox contains 2 identical blue
inserts of soft plastic each having 5 trays.
The property cards are plasticized like the blue
Chance- and darkred Community
Chest cards. The banknotes are also in accordance with Parker
Brothers, so with 4 small spaces with resp. a house, an engine and twice the
amount. In the mid space is Monopoly (in Arabic) with the amount under.
The tokens are of poor plastic and in 8 different colours.
The design is the knight of chess! The 2 grey dice with black pips
are very coarse and hand made.
The red (!) houses and green
(!) hotels are of poor plastic as well. They have no chimneys.
A white sticker on the outside of the box that this is the plasticized
version of the game. Further is striking the most expensive blue
street on the lid is called Farhat Haced (instead of Bourguiba) at the price of
DT 14,000 (instead of DT 40,000). The less exspensive blue
street is called Mohammed V on the cover (instead of Khareddine Pacha) at the
price of DT 24,000 (instead of DT 35,000).
Furthermore the first street after Départ
is shown as a red street on the cover at far
too high a price.
The price of this set amounted to DT 16,130 (~ US$ 17.-) in April 1995.
Edition: Standard - long box, ref. ?
Publisher: Ranim Jeux - Tunis - ±1990
Dimensions of the box: 50 x 26 cm
The game:
The sole difference with ref. 500 is the soft gameboard of this set. A
gold sticker on the outside says this is a cheaper issue.
Edition:
Standard - small box,
ref. 50
Publisher: Ranim Jeux - Tunis - ±1990
Dimensions of the box: 25.4 x 25.4 cm
The game:
The gameboard is of soft carton, but for the rest all parts are equal to
those of the standard set. Very special however is Uncle Pennybags in relief on
the cover !
The price of this set amounted to DT 14,500 (~ US$ 15.-) in April 1995.
Edition: Standard - long box, without ref. nr.
Publisher: Ranim Jeux - Tunis - ±1996
Dimensions of the box: 50 x 26 cm
The game:
In the first instance this set resembles very much the edition ref. 500 because
a part of side fo
ur of
the board with Départ is shown, with the red
bar with Monopoly (in Arabic) under.
However, there are a great number of differences, viz.:
 | On both the lid and the gameboard the color of the play
field is dark bluegreen. |
| Both the 2 darkblue streets on the lid
as well as on the board are the same and the prices do not differ neither. |
| The lid shows a car on Ave. Bourguiba, while this edition is also supplied with 4 plastic knights of chess and 2 small pawns. |
| The Arabic word Monopoly is on the midfield of the board in open characters. |
| The back of the solid board has a green-pink
square-pattern with MONOPOLY in one corner and the same picture in Arabic
in the opposite corner. |
| The box does not have an insert - the component parts are loose in the
box. |
| The coarse dice are of red wood
into which the pips have been drilled. |
| The banknotes are the same as those of the set with ref.500, like
the property cards, the plasticized Chance- and
Community
Chest cards. |
| Als here the plastic houses are red
and the hotels green. |
These games are also exported to other countries. This set was bought in
Casablanca - Morocco!
The price of this set amounted to DH 179.50 (~ US$ 20.-) October 1998 in Morocco.
On the site of Ranim Jeux I found December 2010 the
following images without much explanation.
Because they are shown on the site from 2008 I take it they were published that
year:
Edition: Monopoly De Luxe - French, without ref.nr.
Publisher: Ranim Jeux - Tunis - 2008
Edition: Monopoly De Luxe - Arab, without
ref.nr.
Publisher: Ranim Jeux - Tunis - 2008
Edition: Monopoly Standard - French, without ref.nr.
Publisher: Ranim Jeux - Tunis - 2008
Edition: Monopoly Standard - Arab, without ref.nr.
Publisher: Ranim Jeux - Tunis - 2008
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