Elvis_Bogart: Let's make it something relative to today's America.

I nominate Kim Kardashian's ass.

Jesus, Elvis - we do need to be able to see the board, after all.

Pocket Ninja: Only losers used the thimble and wheelbarrow, anyway. Monopoly winners play the car, dog, or top hat.

Top Hat FTW!

Monopoly always took hours to decide what piece everyone was. There was alot of punching, nougies and screaming.


Good good times.

TommyymmoT: I want a car with a dog riding on the roof.

Darth_Lukecash: I think the wheelbarrow should stay. But fark the Thimble. Seriously fark the thimble.

What's with all the thimble hate? I always play the thimble, it's the most substantial piece on the board.

Elvis_Bogart: Let's make it something relative to today's America.

I nominate Kim Kardashian's ass.

We're gonna need a bigger board.

Still thirty minutes too much spent on Monopoly. Seriously, is this the '80s?

Retiring the thimble? The fark they are!

bulldg4life: Everyone of you is a liar if you still use all of the actual monopoly pieces.

In my game, you get to choose from a dime, one of the playing pieces from Sorry!, a pawn from a travel chess set, and a mini ten sided dice.

I get the race car and that is non-negotiable.

I want to play with two dollars and a Casio..

Benevolent Misanthrope: Elvis_Bogart: Let's make it something relative to today's America.

I nominate Kim Kardashian's ass.

Jesus, Elvis - we do need to be able to see the board, after all.

Pocket Ninja: Only losers used the thimble and wheelbarrow, anyway. Monopoly winners play the car, dog, or top hat.

Top Hat FTW!


For over 40 years now, I have been the mutherfarking top hat. Everybody else grabs for the flashy racecar and the cute little dog, while I just casually pick up my spiffy hat.

An hour into the game, everybody else is jealous of my class and panache. I even move it slowly from square to square, like a gentleman squiring about town.

I'm the goddamn Top Hat. Deal with it.

Car or dog for me, but the car was the preference. Sometimes the tophat. The iron was lame, so was the thimble. The wheelbarrow I had no strong feelings for either way.

Mr_Fabulous: An hour into the game, everybody else is jealous of my class and panache. I even move it slowly from square to square, like a gentleman squiring about town.

I think I'll farky you as "Monopoly flaneur".

It's all about the battleship.

theorellior: Mr_Fabulous: An hour into the game, everybody else is jealous of my class and panache. I even move it slowly from square to square, like a gentleman squiring about town.

I think I'll farky you as "Monopoly flaneur".

I've been called worse.

Iron. Thimble. Shoe.

/hipster

I bought the Star wars edition of it, and always played Vader.

used to bring him over when I would play with friends on their regular monopoly

Best ones ever

dickfreckle: I have never played Monopoly without the race car. And I have never lost. Never, even playing cutthroat and with some asshole always getting the "free parking" payout. I make things happen out there. I make deals, son. I own some motherf*ckers when you break out that board.

/ITG

I'm actually pretty good at that Monopoly thing. My wife? Not so much. We played for a while, every night for two weeks. I beat her 13 times in a row. She won game 14. That was six years ago. We haven't played since.

/She might be a bit of a sore loser.

I always play as the iron. You never have to fight someone for the iron.

I like my Simpsons pieces.

Pewter casting is a time-honored tradition and certain types of tabletop-gaming enthusiast will tell you all about it if you so much as hint that you're interested.

As such, I made a few additional pieces for the family Monopoly set, simply because we have so many players on holidays, and my one cousin, the game expert, is designing a huge, eight-sided board that folds out onto a round table with six new colors, four new railroads, a second Jail, a second Go (necessary to maintain gameplay,) a lazy susan so the board rotates and a money tray on a TV stand for the banker. I'm also working on molds to cast the houses and hotels in pewter, so they're more substantial, and will either electroplate them in copper and chrome respectively (I know a guy who works at a chrome plant,) or hand-paint them the traditional red and green with little windows and stuff with Testor's enamel and then spray-seal them for maximum durability.

We've been working on it since Christmas and hope to have it ready in time for Grandma's ninetieth birthday, as Monopoly is her favorite game and she loves it so. Husband and I built the table and banker's tray (it even has a printing calculator built-in, because Grandma's House Rules mean a non-playing little kid is chosen to be banker and some of the kids are still iffy on math,) my cousin and her husband have been having us over to painstakingly hand-paint the board every weekend (we'll seal it with clear-coat once it's done,) and the whole thing is about half finished. The hardest parts were working out the expansion without affecting play (luckily cousin is a serious board-games expert,) and finding authentic names for the new streets, landmarks and railroads. We actually called a third cousin in Atlantic City to accomplish this.

And yes, in our family Monopoly is Serious Business. Every child gets a set for their thirteenth birthday, and on holidays we have the kid's version at the 'little kids' table, the regular version at the regular kids' table (ages eight to thirteen,) and a big adults-only game that has been known to last well into the night. Some years we have to have four adult-division boards going and tournament brackets to decide who plays on Christmas Day, but the new eight-sider board should enable many more players at a given time.

I have never once won a Christmas Day game in the adults' division, but since only Cousin, I, and our husbands have seen and play-tested the new Ninetieth Birthday board, I am cherishing vague hopes.

SpiderQueenDemon: Pewter casting is a time-honored tradition and certain types of tabletop-gaming enthusiast will tell you all about it if you so much as hint that you're interested.

As such, I made a few additional pieces for the family Monopoly set, simply because we have so many players on holidays, and my one cousin, the game expert, is designing a huge, eight-sided board that folds out onto a round table with six new colors, four new railroads, a second Jail, a second Go (necessary to maintain gameplay,) a lazy susan so the board rotates and a money tray on a TV stand for the banker. I'm also working on molds to cast the houses and hotels in pewter, so they're more substantial, and will either electroplate them in copper and chrome respectively (I know a guy who works at a chrome plant,) or hand-paint them the traditional red and green with little windows and stuff with Testor's enamel and then spray-seal them for maximum durability.

We've been working on it since Christmas and hope to have it ready in time for Grandma's ninetieth birthday, as Monopoly is her favorite game and she loves it so. Husband and I built the table and banker's tray (it even has a printing calculator built-in, because Grandma's House Rules mean a non-playing little kid is chosen to be banker and some of the kids are still iffy on math,) my cousin and her husband have been having us over to painstakingly hand-paint the board every weekend (we'll seal it with clear-coat once it's done,) and the whole thing is about half finished. The hardest parts were working out the expansion without affecting play (luckily cousin is a serious board-games expert,) and finding authentic names for the new streets, landmarks and railroads. We actually called a third cousin in Atlantic City to accomplish this.

And yes, in our family Monopoly is Serious Business. Every child gets a set for their thirteenth birthday, and on holidays we have the kid's version at the 'little kids' table, the regular version at the regular kid ...


You should post picts of this when you're done. Sounds pretty, damn cool.

We have to confiscate the wheelbarrow from the new games before we can give the games to our inmates. If we let them have the wheelbarrows, they steal them and use them as screwdrivers for the security screws. They all know that if we catch them with one their ass is grass. They will get a charge of interfering with security proceedures. They do not want that charge.

SpiderQueenDemon: Pewter casting is a time-honored tradition and certain types of tabletop-gaming enthusiast will tell you all about it if you so much as hint that you're interested.

As such, I made a few additional pieces for the family Monopoly set, simply because we have so many players on holidays, and my one cousin, the game expert, is designing a huge, eight-sided board that folds out onto a round table with six new colors, four new railroads, a second Jail, a second Go (necessary to maintain gameplay,) a lazy susan so the board rotates and a money tray on a TV stand for the banker. I'm also working on molds to cast the houses and hotels in pewter, so they're more substantial, and will either electroplate them in copper and chrome respectively (I know a guy who works at a chrome plant,) or hand-paint them the traditional red and green with little windows and stuff with Testor's enamel and then spray-seal them for maximum durability.

We've been working on it since Christmas and hope to have it ready in time for Grandma's ninetieth birthday, as Monopoly is her favorite game and she loves it so. Husband and I built the table and banker's tray (it even has a printing calculator built-in, because Grandma's House Rules mean a non-playing little kid is chosen to be banker and some of the kids are still iffy on math,) my cousin and her husband have been having us over to painstakingly hand-paint the board every weekend (we'll seal it with clear-coat once it's done,) and the whole thing is about half finished. The hardest parts were working out the expansion without affecting play (luckily cousin is a serious board-games expert,) and finding authentic names for the new streets, landmarks and railroads. We actually called a third cousin in Atlantic City to accomplish this.

And yes, in our family Monopoly is Serious Business. Every child gets a set for their thirteenth birthday, and on holidays we have the kid's version at the 'little kids' table, the regular version at the regular kids' table (ages eight to thirteen,) and a big adults-only game that has been known to last well into the night. Some years we have to have four adult-division boards going and tournament brackets to decide who plays on Christmas Day, but the new eight-sider board should enable many more players at a given time.

I have never once won a Christmas Day game in the adults' division, but since only Cousin, I, and our husbands have seen and play-tested the new Ninetieth Birthday board, I am cherishing vague hopes.

Pix when done.

fark that