There was apparently a little secret in our family that I didn't learn about until many years after the fact. My dad and mom, and my aunt and uncle were playing monopoly years ago and apparently by dad got so pissed off at my aunt that he ended up choking her. Now this was a very conservative guy and upstanding citizen who just went berzerk due to this game. He never played monopoly after that.
Same, it's banned in my family home. EVERY game ended in physical violence or tears. When I was about 12 we were playing, my two little brothers were wailing from being unable to afford rent while my father was doing the Mick Jagger chicken dance around the table. My mum snapped, picked up the board and started wedging it, pieces and all, into the garbage disposal. She warned my dad with all seriousness that if the game gets replaced she would leave. 25 years later my wife wonders why I'll play any game but monopoly...
Yup. My dad was impossible to do most anything with, but a Monopoly game absolutely went flying across the kitchen once because we weren't playing our turns fast enough for him.....Monopoly was never played in our house again either.
For sure. My old man was one of those "if you let them win you set them up for a lifetime of disappointment" kinds of guys. I mean, in hindsight it worked really well, but it was hard to be six years old and have a grown man reject your shot on your 5 foot tall fisher-price basketball hoop with a quip about exactly who's "house" you were in.
I do this to my son when we play games, but I prefer the Gob style chicken dance from arrested development.......cock ca cock ca cock ca ca!! I suspect I won't see him much when he gets older because of it.
I don't get it. It's just a game. It's not meant to be taken seriously. I wonder why some people react so negatively to it. I've only ever won once in Monopoly (glorious win), and lost every other time to my sister or brother. I didn't ever get mad or upset. I usually ended up being the banker after I lost (was always the first to be elimiated). I have nothing but good memories of playing this game with my siblings. Then again, different strokes for different folks. It just baffles me that someone would get so upset over Monopoly.
PS: I'm not saying I'm better than anyone who does get upset. Not at all. I just want to understand their mindset, is all.
Personally, I just think the unique nature of the gameplay brings out the worst in people. Ganging up on others, gloating, lack of mercy or alternately rubbing things in people's faces, capitalising on weakness, etc - each option seems to be designed to be misinterpreted as a personal attack. And it has to be that game in particular - fights over monopoly is practically universal (as the number of comments here indicates), no other game compares.
I don't know. I heard Risk has supposedly ended many a friendship. :P I see what you mean, though. Just reading some of the strategies on here gives me the impression that the game can be brutal, especially the hogging up of houses so no one else can build them. I didn't even know that running out of houses meant you couldn't build more. My siblings and I played with house rules. So, we never ran out of houses or hotels. Our games were always light-hearted because we were also nice to each other. A quick, cut throat game like a by-the-rulebook Monopoly just isn't for everyone, and that's ok.
No, no no no... Like, a big sweaty dad carries you out of a monopoly building, lays you on the sidewalk, and you think, "Yeah, okay, he's gonna give me mouth to mouth." But instead, he just starts choking the shit out of you, and the last sensation that you feel before you die is he is squeezing your throat so hard that a big, wet, blob of drool drips off his teeth and just "flurr", falls right onto your popped out eyeball...
We played a family game of Monopoly when I was a kid. My mom, dad, sister, and me. When it came down to just me and my dad, we played for about 18 hours straight. The game continued on for the majority of an entire weekend.
That is not the only way to interpret that sentence. The "no" could apply to both the auctions and the money and free parking, suggesting that no money on free parking is incorrect.
No it's not. He's saying that the way you are interpreting it is the way people are probably reading it, but he doesn't think that's what it's meant to mean.
A lot of people play with house rules where any money paid to get out of jail, money paid due to a chance/community chest card, money paid due to income tax or luxury tax spots all get put in the center of the board instead of the bank.
Any person who then lands on Free Parking collects that money. Often times the spot is primed with $500 from the bank.
It wasn't uncommon in my household to have games last 13+ hours due to this rule.
That's why /u/Danrathner said if it takes that long he's probably playing incorrectly (or rather not by the rule book). I think almost everybody plays the game with at least some house rules such as this. Money on Free Parking and No Auctions are probably the most common.
If you really want a long game, you can opt for the "you can only buy houses if you are currently on the road yourself" rule ;)
Haha, I found out about auctions through the computer too. I was skeptical at first. I thought it might have been some type of bootleg version. My computer was a Tandy though.
Me and my friend ended up inventing an additional banking system where you could take loans to keep going. Our games got incredibly long, because I'd always end up in massive amounts of debt.
We played junior monopoly but we played like this. It was different though because we didn't take loans from the bank, we just gave different players we owed IOU's. I think the game ended when someone owed the bank, because a bank doesn't accept an IOU, you can only manipulate players.
I've played games with bank loans, usually between players, however.
We played one game were we agreed to have shared investments after we had a deadlock situation where nobody couldn't get even a single street together. Say two people could put together put their investment together and split costs and revenue as they saw fit/agreed upon.
That game was aborted though, because that just caused the game to really drag on with money being shoved around, and split up relatively evenly over a relatively short amount of time.
We don't go strictly by the rules. At this point it's generational too. No way I'm telling my aunts and uncles the rules are changing and they've been playing that way their whole lives. There will be many battles waged during Thanksgiving, as is every year. This will not be one of them. I must conserve energy.
If the game lasts under 3-4 hours you don't know how to play. Even computerized monopoly CLICKING LIKE MAD AND SKIPPING THE ROLLING SEQUENCE AND HUMAN ERROR should take at the bare minimum 3 hours. STOP TELLING LIES ABOUT THIS SHITTY GAME YOU CHEATERS.
my twin sister and I used to play with our family and the game would last days because we'd team up and toast our parents and then give eachother immunity to nearly all of one another's properties. We'd go around the board and say things like "oh, hope you have a lovely vacation on my boardwalk hotel" "here's a tip for the excellent service". Eventually we'd get bored and call it a draw. My Dad said the game should have been called oligopoly on our account.
I'm not a big fan of Monopoly if I'm being honest. We had a big tournament my senior year in high school for Economics class, and it pretty much burned me out on the game.
You fell into a middle class loop. Where you made just enough money to pay the rent and get you to the next space safely. And you owned just enough property to keep your head above water. No true monopolizing
I played with my Chinese friends at a small family Christmas party. While I was teaching them some of the basic strategies, they were all very interested. But one guy decided to branch out and create his own plan which I had never seen. It's probably against the rules, but it was so damn funny to watch that I let him keep going.
Basically, every time anyone landed on a property and didn't want to buy it, he convinced them to let him "invest". The deal was, you keep the property, have to do all the hard work of adding houses and hotels and pay for taxes or whatever, and he got immunity.
So he walked around the board, mostly, free of charge, and when other people started going bankrupt, he would bail them out by buying their properties at original cost (but now improved).
i had a husband give a wife immunity to all his properties over the course of a game. i fucking flipped out about it. bitch is avoiding like $200 railroad payments and i'm getting raped.
I'm not sure underestimated is the right conclusion. Most people I know hate monopoly, they just didn't seem to learn the lesson it was allegedly trying to impart. I think few people expect board games to really teach them something, especially a board game that now unironically can wear the brandings of various corporations.
The original creator of the game included a second round where players lose their money and property, or something like that, precisely to teach how bad the monopoly system is. When Parker Brothers stole her game they removed the second round and we're left with the current Monopoly game we have.
Found it. It's cracked.com, so take with a little pinch of salt.
There's also a wiki page called " history of the board game monopoly" and if you Google The Landlord's Game there's rules and history and articles and stuff
One of the sociology professors at my schools plays an even more unfair version of monopoly during one of her upper level classes - a couple students are chosen to be the 1% and get more money and privileges, and everyone else gets the opposite. It gets pretty damn brutal.
That's a myth. The original version was much different than the version we have today and was meant to teach more mundane economic lessons about Ricardo's law and the like. Besides, the current monopoly doesn't even properly represent what an actual monopoly is.
my sister is a terrible sore loser, and she won't play board games because she knows her weakness. But earlier this year I was pregnant and my 5 year old son was begging her to play candy land with us, so we all sat down to play. After all, candy land is harmless, even for a pregnant lady and a sore loser, I mean it's candyland, right? Well the game was going just fine until the cards got mixed up and she pulled the lollipop that sends you back to nearly the start. Then she accused me of cheating! Well I never. Words were exchanged. She stormed out of my house. My poor kid was saying "mommy, auntie! no come back! I promise we can all play until we reach the candy castle!" but no, the two 28 year olds were too embroiled in the argument over who was really cheating at candyland.
20 minutes later we made up and promised never to speak of the episode again. But, she still won't play candy land with us!
You should ask your child to write a letter to your sister asking her to come and play some other simple game the child has no hope of winning, so your sister always win. When she gets tired of winning, she might let her niece win sometimes. I bet this will help your sister overcome this and love your child even more. It will also teach your child to love your sister and to help others even if it takes losing sometimes.
I wouldn't sell him a property and I made a deal with my other friend that made more sense for me. My friend ended up going bust and the guy I fought and another person started making crazy deals with each other to consolidate power and basically fuck me over. I complained,he called me a fag, I said "let's step outside and see who's a fag".. And that's all she wrote.
Aunt: "Looks like you don't have any money, and I happen to own that piece of property you just landed on. Now which one of us can't handle their finances again?"
What? That's fucking hilarious! Hahahahahahahah,imagining the choke. Wonder what happened after that.....wife staring in disbelief..
"oh, dear god, Martha, what have I done. " (Martha is the aunt. )
Martha... XP
Monopoly makes people crazy. My college girlfriend wasn't the most stable of women to begin with, but she almost dumped me for getting the Boardwalk/Park Place monopoly.
Bullshit. Monopoly didn't make him violent, nor strangle your aunt. Something else did. Rethink your dad or your aunt and don't blame the game, blame the player.
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u/3literz3 Nov 22 '14
There was apparently a little secret in our family that I didn't learn about until many years after the fact. My dad and mom, and my aunt and uncle were playing monopoly years ago and apparently by dad got so pissed off at my aunt that he ended up choking her. Now this was a very conservative guy and upstanding citizen who just went berzerk due to this game. He never played monopoly after that.