Within the game, the spaces beyond the board are inaccessible in a fundamental way, since they are unavailable to physical access (moving a piece to such a hypothetical space), perceptual access (the game does not allow us to glimpse these spaces), or to imaginative projection. The reason why such spaces are disallowed by the game should be obvious: the game depends on a certain scarcity of spaces (hence the name, Monopoly), and to allow access to new spaces simply by moving off of the initial number of spaces would fundamen tally change the game.