Great. Now this is going to drive demand for Monopoly up, and it's going to jack up the price of the game, while Parker brothers will print more sets and more money for them. That means crazy Monopoly money inflation. Goodbye economy again. Thanks, Obama.

Subby is my jo

MaxxLarge: Games of Monopoly played in America last year: 343,867.

Games of Monopoly actually finished in America last year: 9.

THIS.

I'm a Monopoly purist. If it isn't in the rulebook it doesn't get done.

Seriously, people who biatch about how long the game is are the ones who put money on free parking. The whole point of the game is limited funds which is balanced. Same with extra houses. See below.

People hate playing Monopoly with me.

I always take the dog because I like to do psychological warfare by pretending to have it piss on your token and shiat on your property as I go by. While not highbrow, it gives me a distinct psychological advantage.

For buying strategy I try like hell to get the four railroads, even if I have to pay way more than they are worth. According to the official strategy guide, there is a 62% chance of landing on one during a trip around the board. Considering they don't need development costs they are cash cows. The orange properties are next in line, then light purple, the red properties, the yellow ones, dark blue, purple, utilities, and last and certainly least, the green ones.

Housing. This is where being by the book comes in handy. I love to carefully build up all the properties to four houses and then leave it there, creating a housing shortage. You wouldn't believe how pissed off people get when you do this. Also, when getting houses, try to build to three asap. There's a substantial jump from 2-3 in terms of income.

One of my favorite tactics is to quietly tuck the money I get under the title deeds, leaving about a third showing openly. One game this was useful in was when I had two of the orange properties and a green, while the other player had the reverse. I traded the green for his orange and then slammed 12 houses down with the over a grand hidden under my cards he had forgotten about. I had tied up the housing market with the light blue properties and this so he had a block with only one house on it. He was destroyed in three turns.

Fun game!

My least favorite thing about Monopoly is its inaccurate portrayal of city planning. Seriously, who the fark builds a square with nothing in the middle?

I'd kick any of your asses at either game

Starryeyes: You have thought about this far too much.

If I put one tenth of the energy I've spent on Monopoly into getting laid, Hugh Hefner would be taking pointers from me.

What? No love for Mouse Trap?

bullwinkl: Great. Now this is going to drive demand for Monopoly up, and it's going to jack up the price of the game, while Parker brothers will print more sets and more money for them. That means crazy Monopoly money inflation. Goodbye economy again. Thanks, Obama.

Will his reign of terror know no end?? I said nothing when he took Baltic Ave. with ACORN. I stood by when he took St. James Place, whats next? I bet he'll open the jail and let those bastards pass go.

I'm stealing ur money while u pee.

EEEEEEE

/ May be obscure.

I'll take Settlers of Catan anyday!

Monopoly is one of the worst designed games ever. No strategy, too much luck, little interaction.

I bought Park Place back in 2005, god damn real estate market crashed on me and now it is worth jack shiat. I think I am going to foreclose on the property, I just need the value to go up. If those assholes next door in boardwalk weren't constantly playing loud music, that would help alot too.

/RAGE!

The English Major: Sup dawg, I heard you like qi, so I put a xu in your ar so you can de while you ut.

Ha!

eddyatwork: If it isn't in the rulebook it doesn't get done.

Unlike actual U.S. economics, where you could just lobby to have the game deregulated. Considering Monopoly is about real estate, imagine what credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations would do to the game.

The English Major: Sup dawg, I heard you like qi, so I put a xu in your ar so you can de while you ut.

Brilliant!

+1 internets

FTFA: Ten of the leading Christmas presents for children were tested by a panel of six to ten-year olds. The time they spent playing the games was then recorded and analysed to see which offered the best "cost per play".

They must not have factored the Nimbus 2000 into that analysis. From what I hear, girls like to play with it over and over, for hours.

eddyatwork: I'm a Monopoly purist. If it isn't in the rulebook it doesn't get done.

Seriously, people who biatch about how long the game is are the ones who put money on free parking. The whole point of the game is limited funds which is balanced. Same with extra houses. See below.

People hate playing Monopoly with me.

I always take the dog because I like to do psychological warfare by pretending to have it piss on your token and shiat on your property as I go by. While not highbrow, it gives me a distinct psychological advantage.

For buying strategy I try like hell to get the four railroads, even if I have to pay way more than they are worth. According to the official strategy guide, there is a 62% chance of landing on one during a trip around the board. Considering they don't need development costs they are cash cows. The orange properties are next in line, then light purple, the red properties, the yellow ones, dark blue, purple, utilities, and last and certainly least, the green ones.

Housing. This is where being by the book comes in handy. I love to carefully build up all the properties to four houses and then leave it there, creating a housing shortage. You wouldn't believe how pissed off people get when you do this. Also, when getting houses, try to build to three asap. There's a substantial jump from 2-3 in terms of income.

One of my favorite tactics is to quietly tuck the money I get under the title deeds, leaving about a third showing openly. One game this was useful in was when I had two of the orange properties and a green, while the other player had the reverse. I traded the green for his orange and then slammed 12 houses down with the over a grand hidden under my cards he had forgotten about. I had tied up the housing market with the light blue properties and this so he had a block with only one house on it. He was destroyed in three turns.

Fun game!



I rolled a 6 and a 2.

eddyatwork: Seriously, people who biatch about how long the game is are the ones who put money on free parking. The whole point of the game is limited funds which is balanced. Same with extra houses. See below.

when I play it is only fines, no "seed money"

People hate playing Monopoly with me.

because you're a dick?

I always take the dog because I like to do psychological warfare by pretending to have it piss on your token and shiat on your property as I go by. While not highbrow, it gives me a distinct psychological advantage.

are you 8?

Fun game!

YMMV

gorgor: I'm stealing ur money while u pee.

Glad to see you haven't been banned. There are Farkers in other threads who miss you.

Just wanted to get this in before it gets lost in the crowd.

eddyatwork: I'm a Monopoly purist. If it isn't in the rulebook it doesn't get done.

Seriously, people who biatch about how long the game is are the ones who put money on free parking. The whole point of the game is limited funds which is balanced. Same with extra houses. See below.

People hate playing Monopoly with me... strategy


Fun game!

This is more or less my strategy as well.

In our house, the cost per play winners are: Scrabble, Rummikub, and Bananagrams.

People hate playing Scrabble with me because I have a huge vocabulary (thanks trashy romance novels as a teen!).

I love Rummikub because it warms my little black OCD heart to rearrange the tiles. Bananagrams is just plain fun.

mysticcat: xu

"Word Freak" by Stefan Fatsis is a great book on competitive scrabble. Really. Trust me.

I know most of the people profiled in the book, so I got a kick out of that reply.

notmtwain: Once we started playing by the rules and stopped giving money for landing on Free Parking, the games got a lot shorter. Not surprisingly, people go bankrupt faster when there's not an extra $5,000 buying hotels around the board.

Wait, you get money for landing on free property? I was under the impression that "free parking" meant you get to rest there for no cost, to build up the tension of the following massacre on the railroads and the greens?

I'm ranked in the top ten of competitive Monopoly players in this country, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies!

guvnor: I rolled a 6 and a 2.

And that's the really exciting bit?

/Actually it was Risk

Ponzholio: gorgor: I'm stealing ur money while u pee.

Fair enough, I'm peeing in your sink...

Hey, that's where we wash mom!

Carcassonne, Settlers of Catan, Chess, Go, Scrabble, and Cranium are all far superior to Monopoly. However, I do love Monopoly's playing pieces.

Monopoly is one of the worst designed popular board games of all time.

/is a board game geek
// Agricola, BSG and Dominions are my favorites.

Sapper_Topo: Give me Risk any day of the week! Although I do like Scrabble and Monopoly for family game night, Risk is hands down my favorite to play with friends. Why yes I am a big dork thanks for asking!!

Risk breaks friendships. Period.