One of America's favorite board games is going global.
Hasbro is swapping Broadway and Park Place for Montreal and Riga. (Do you even know where that is? I didn't. Answer at the end of this post) for a new Monopoly: World Edition.
New York City still made the cut, but it's the only U.S. city to do so. More than 5 million Monopoly fans voted online earlier this year for the cities they wanted to see in the new edition.
Here's the official line from a company press release: "We are thrilled that the first-ever global game board includes an interesting mix of cities that showcases the dynamic cultures, sights and history of the planet."
Next, I'm waiting to read about some goal-oriented traveler on a mission to visit each of the cities on the new board.
Riga is in Latvia, in case you were wondering.
And Latvia -- for everyone whose brain didn't pull up an instant mental map -- is in Eastern Europe, kind of sandwiched between Russia and Poland.
My friend Erica Vitins-Jackson used to live in Riga...which is in Latvia-didn't have to look. She is Brady's Godmother and was here for his baptism.