A worldwide vote for countries to be included on the first-ever World Monopoly board was launched in Times Square, New York, yesterday. Rose of Tralee, Lisa Murtagh cast the first official vote for Ireland at the event, while in Dublin, Miss Ireland Bláthnaid McKenna called for support for the Irish vote.
Global games company Hasbro is launching the worldwide vote to find the 22 greatest cities in the world that should be included on the new Monopoly Here & Now: World Edition board.
Monopoly fans can visit www.monopoly.comto vote. Voters are allowed to cast their ballots for up to 10 cities each day of the vote, which will be open until February 28th.
Bookmakers Paddy Power has put odds on Ireland being represented by Dublin making the board at 1/3 and for Dublin to achieve the highest rent position at 20/1. Two spaces on the board will be reserved for cities that are nominated through a wild card vote. The wild card winners will occupy the low-rent property spaces.
The cities voted on to the final game board will be announced in August.