The boardroom battles waged by the activist investor Carl C. Icahn have drawn comparisons to poker. But Mr. Icahn apparently prefers to think of his career in terms of a different game: Monopoly.
On Sunday evening, he posted a photograph to Twitter showing an artist’s rendering of what “Icahnopoly: The Activist Edition†would look like. The framed artwork was a “great gift from my daughter,†Mr. Icahn said in the tweet.
The imagined board game reworks Monopoly to reflect Mr. Icahn’s playbook of taking stakes in companies and loudly calling for change. Park Place? That’s Herbalife, the nutritional supplements company that Mr. Icahn is betting on in real life, pitting him against a longtime rival. Boardwalk? That, of course, is Apple.
In this billionaire’s version of the game, there is no jail. And players collect substantially more than $200 when they pass Go.
Here is what a set of directions in “Icahnopoly†might look like:
Go directly to the cocktail party. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200 million.
When he is not taking umbrage at corporate directors or plotting his next target, Mr. Icahn has been known to play chess with his son, Brett, staking thousands of dollars on a game. In his younger days, he helped pay his way through Princeton with winnings from poker.
Mr. Icahn’s daughter, Michelle, who gave him “Icahnopoly,†previously worked as a schoolteacher. She now works at Mr. Icahn’s firm, along with Brett.
The “Icahnopoly†board is less a workable game than a playful rendering of Mr. Icahn’s résumé. Here is Dell, the company whose buyout he tried unsuccessfully to block last year, and here Netflix, which delivered hundreds of millions of dollars of profit for Mr. Icahn. The game includes some memorable fights from the 1980s, like Viacom, Texaco and T.W.A.
One company the game does not include is eBay, the latest technology firm in Mr. Icahn’s sights, which on Monday rejected his board nominees. But he said in the tweet that a second edition was “coming soon.â€
