Just played it for the first time in 30 odd tears.
What a ####ing awful game.
Any fond memories from my childhood on that one have been erased.
Cludo was far superior anyway. In that they were only killing each other with blunt instruments rather than driving people to financial ruin.
The thing with Monopoly is that it was originally designed to show the evils of unchecked capitalism.
Over the years the rules and the aim of the game got modified:
we usually stop and count money and assets after the first person passes go ten times. If we play to the bitter end it gets unpleasant for everyone
You're doing it all wrong. The recognised way to end Monopoly is smack the board up, sending all the pieces airborne before storming out the room declaring 'I'm not playing this rubbish any more'
Have been playing a game with my two boys for the last couple of days, we keep leaving it to let everyone calm down as it all gets too exciting.
9yr old has got 4 houses on Mayfair and has everyone terrified of the last stretch to GO. 7yo has turned into a complete Scrooge McDuck, owns 2/3 of the board and has one entire side of the board covered in hotels.!!! I am completely outclassed and can barely scrape by every run round the board, I'm living on borrowed time.!!
Wife has pointed out that we can probably stop worrying about the retirement fund assuming we can rely on the income of our budding slumlords.!!
we usually stop and count money and assets after the first person passes go ten times. If we play to the bitter end it gets unpleasant for everyone
Not a bad idea. What annoys me most is knowing who's going to win after 20 minutes but it then taking hours more to play out.
yes its a slow painful death.. we're ontp day 3 but the end is night
Hah. [i]We[/i] played trivial pursuit after christmas dinner, what I wouldn't have given for a bit of monopoly. Though did have the highlight of my brother's girlfriend asking him to choose between the pink and the brown, him not noticing, and my mum falling off her chair laughing.
Great game but not played it this year yet only the junior Frozen version.
Top Tip: you can get Monopoly for iPad/ Android tablets.
Brilliant fun on long journeys - and the game is a lot faster than when a human is the banker.
You could try this version
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[url=ews.bfnn.co.uk/hasbro-release-monopoly-isis-edition/]Monopoly: ISIS Edition[/url]
[url= http://news.bfnn.co.uk/hasbro-release-monopoly-isis-edition/ ]Fixed link[/url] (though to be honest I don't know why I bothered)
We played trivial pursuit after christmas dinner
From what decade? Its important thats its older than the youngest player for the full experience
We had the joy of my brother in laws Trivial Pursuit Thunderbird Edition, he is a massive fan, I however am not and have barely watched an episode. Wiped the floor with him via pure guessing. This was followed by two games of Cluedo where my 11 year old daughter nailed it both times, damn kids.
Dreadful game, not withstanding having had a tooth kicked out during a game of monopoly once, the game just disintigrates rather than ends. Turns a family gathering into cabin fever.
James Ernest made a really nice reworking of it called Vegas - he published a revised board and a set of rules that you played with the money and counters from monopoly plus a deck of cards. It swapped the streets for casinos and when you land on a square rather than buy the street or (pay rent if someone has bought it) you gambled a sum of money (with odds that reflect the house advantage in a casino) so that you could either win or loose money rather than just pay rent. Each casino accrues the money players lose and as the game winds up there are chances to win each casino's acquired winnings.
Its a better game for keeping peoples interest as peoples fortunes can change quite radically as the game completes, unlike monopoly where the winner only gets to play to the end if the losers are polite enough to endure the boredom of watching them win.
As per the video above, Monopoly is painfully long because of hotels. If you can't recycle houses into hotels then the housing stock soon dries up.
Monopoly takes so long because almost no-one plays it correctly. Many seem to skip auctioning properties (presumably to keep it simpler for kids but it ends up staying), put fines in the middle to be collected on free parking, being lenient on bankruptcy rules, limiting trading, etc.
Play it as per the rules and it really shouldn't drag on.
...or just get the junior version. Even our 5 year old can't get bored with it as it's so quick. Plus he usually wins...
joshvegas - MemberFrom what decade? Its important thats its older than the youngest player for the full experience
We went the other way with the current version, so it has lots of history that's been rewritten since my dad went to school, and events that happened too recently for him to have noticed.
We used to play Pub Monopoly at Uni, many years ago.
The streets were replaced by pubs, the idea was that the boardmaster would keep the board in the 'home' pub, players were in teams of three and would throw the dice and go and have a pint in the pub on which they landed, then return to the 'home' pub to throw (the dice!) again. First team around the board was the winner. The Chance cards were also dodgy - the worst being 'Go to the Red Cow and have two pints of scrumpy' - not many people survived that one.
It used to get very messy, very quickly.
its a terrible game and you know who has won for days before it happens- have you tried the child's version OP - mercifully its shorter but basically the same.
We played a Dr who trivial pursuit game
Kids knowledge [ even of the very old doctors] far surpasses anything i can muster
I've never played Cluedo, is it any good?
I did ask for it this year but couldn't find it in the local hypermarket.
I'd rather frack my own lower intestine than play Monopoly.
We all played alco-snap after lunch.
I play to lose.
Cludo is very good. But my daughter doesn't read well enough to play it yet.
Hmmmm, looking at the comments regarding Monopoly, has nobody played Risk, then?
A bunch of us used to get together round a friend's place, play games, and neck a few beers. We played Risk once.
Basically I got lumbered with a fairly small country, but which was fairly strategically placed, so my mate's missus attacked me, so I defended myself. So she attacked me again, so I defended myself again. And repeat, with her getting increasingly cross, demanding to know why I bothered defending myself against her, to which I replied it was because she kept attacking me! The logic of this seemed to escape her, and things got really rather heated. Didn't occur to me at the time to reply to her question "because I'm not French", but that may not have done much good.
The game got put back in the box and stuffed into the depths of the cupboard under the stairs, where it may well still languish.
Monopoly was pretty placid, by comparison.
Who on earth plays any of those rules in your link GrahamS?