American couple visits elderly cousins in rural Germany, explore the property and find an abandoned barn. Inside is an old chest and in it they find a canvas bag and inside the bag is a little-used Monopoly board from the 1940s. They don’t tell their hosts about their explorations, and later when asking for a sewing kit to mend a button, they find a thimble – the game piece had evidently been used by the female cousin when she was a child. Asking about it, she seems unaware of where it came from, but her older brother begins acting suspiciously. They see him go to the barn and retrieve the Monopoly board in the middle of the night.
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Dog, battleship, boot,, iron, cannon. The car!
I did a bit more research and the WWII era pieces were not metal but composite of paper and sawdust. Which casts doubt on a little girl in Germany in 1944 using the thimble AS a thimble, but perhaps. I know the Army-issued sets were smaller and lightweight. So the story idea could hold up, but like a lot of them, well, plot holes?
I loved the Scotty Dog piece.