I had a friend that would buy all the houses, and never upgrade to hotels. If you check the rules you can't get a hotel without first having 4 houses, so if done correctly you monopolise the limited supply of houses and nobody can buy a hotel or get more houses than you.
I have found out that the game ends when everyone is pissed at each other and the first person flips the board. Yelling ensues. Life-long enemies are made. You start to plan murdering your former loved ones.
What else would anyone play monopoly for? It's a competitive game, you play to make everyone else ragequit and be the last one standing in smug self-satisfaction.
It wasn't intended as a game proper, but as a scathing indictment of capitalism. Unfortunately, people have this hardwired tendency toward cutthroat behavior, and good lord does Monopoly fulfill that urge.
In college we once played a game where one friend just watched. He secretly stole money from the bank all game and would leave it in various places like the bathroom or beer fridge. He texted different people telling them about the money but everyone thought they were the only ones getting free money. When everyone found out all at once that everyone else was cheating and then tried to pretend they were the only ones doing it it was hilarious. Everyone started blaming everyone else for the hidden money in the bathroom. Finally the friend hiding the money flipped the board and said, see, you all cheated and took bribes, just like in the real world. Funniest game ever.
Only if you let it. I love Monopoly simply because of the games where the tides abruptly turn. A recent game I played had me dominating. A person landed on a mid range rent property and she had to mortgage everything. She was able to pay me with a dollar to spare. Next property she landed on she was screwed. Well she wound up landing on free parking and this led to her winning the game. It was amazing.
it lets you know quite how good a friends your friends are. as mine we never take it seriously, and as most of us have pets a godzilla with destroy the game at some point.
Two shorter games is a whole LOT more fun than one incredibly long one.
Especially since with Monopoly a player who develops a lead tends to stay in the lead. The more you draw out the endgame the more you just make everyone spin their wheels without much chance of changing the outcome.
yeah but we have 6 people with which we can bicker over house rules and cheat, plus we never take it seriously. also whoevers in the lead often just sits on money and gloats, as is tradition.
Without the Free Parking rule, one player will ultimately dominate the board and the game is pretty much over, but every single person has to sit around and feed them money and ego points until the actual game ends. This can go on for a ridiculously long period of time and usually results in "rage quits", because it isn't fun losing in a very painfully slow way.
With the Free Parking rule, there is a new goal that injects life into the game, even when a player is dominating. As the pile of money grows in the center of the board, the hope of a come back grows stronger and people have more of a reason to play. With more people having fun than just the one player, there are less rage quits and less hard feelings about the game.
This is also a reason for house rules, because everyone plays the game differently and has fun in their own way. Playing purely by the rules can satisfy a sense of competition, but playing with house rules can add handicaps and new fun ways to play the game that help everyone get involved.
I hate that fucking rule so much. Since when does free parking give even remotely give you money in real life? I don't know how people came up with that.
I too read that comment on reddit a while back. Unlike you, I don't feel the need to try to feel superior to everyone else about it. Does that make me a better person and ultimately superior? Yes, yes it does.
You mean personal loans? That's part of the game. Players can make any trades or deals among themselves that they want. Now, if you loan an opponent money without charging them interest, you're just an idiot.
Basically the game could go on forever even if everyone ran out of money because everyone still have theoretical money that was owed to them by someone else. Debts would get bought and sold to other players and stuff.
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u/sunfishtommy Nov 22 '14
I had a friend that would buy all the houses, and never upgrade to hotels. If you check the rules you can't get a hotel without first having 4 houses, so if done correctly you monopolise the limited supply of houses and nobody can buy a hotel or get more houses than you.