Couple left stunned after discovering giant Monopoly board underneath their carpet

Renovating a home is always a bigger task than what many people first envision it to be – but nobody would imagine that they might wind up in jail!

That’s what one couple discovered when they ripped up the carpet in their home to discover a gigantic Monopolyboard painted on to the floorboards beneath.

The discovery was shared on Reddit by user u/Yamaha243 who explained: “While tearing up their carpet, my in-laws found a giant monopoly board.”

The board is surprisingly detailed and features all the squares you would need to pay the game. Sadly there are no sign of the extra big pieces, cards or money though.

The post has since gone viral on Reddit and understandably piqued a lot of interest, mostly from people who were keen to know exactly what was going on.

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One person managed to shed some light on why the Monopoly board might have been painted on the floor. They wrote: “Showed this to my wife, and she reminded me that there’s a whole neighbourhood near us, built in the mid-50s, that has game boards painted or tiled onto their basement floors. Seems to have been a selling point or something.”

Another added: “I’ll never forget always wanting one of these when I was younger. I must have begged almost every day, just longing to be able to finally get one of these. I don’t know why - I didn’t even like monopoly, but the gimmick of it just seemed... cool. I thought my friends would have been visiting my house every night, just to see this cool monopoly board, despite the fact that most of them had an SNES or Genesis, which was obviously much better.”

Not much else has been disclosed about the picture or the discovery since but the in-law did add: “Trying to convince them to cover it in epoxy and do the rest of the flooring around it how they originally wanted.”

At least this wasn’t a giant game of Hungry Hungry Hippos. We can imagine that would be a bit more difficult to cover up and conceal.