For all you war-history buffs, a classic tale:
During World War II, the British secret service hatched a master plan to smuggle escape gear to captured Allied soldiers inside Germany. Their secret weapon? Monopoly boxes. The original notion was simple enough: Find a way to sneak useful items into prison camps in an unassuming form. But the idea to use Monopoly came from a series of happy coincidences, all of which started with maps.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/12/monopoly-and-wwii/223080/
