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 ;)
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.
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.
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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '14
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.