Fun fact: Monopoly was originally called “The Landlord’s Game” when it was created and was meant to teach people about the fundamental absurdity and contradictions inherent in the capitalist system of land ownership. It was later co-opted by a family member of the creator who sold it to Parker Brothers. They renamed it Monopoly and turned it into the commercial success it is today.
To be fair, it still teaches that, but everyone wants to be the villain.
Now I want to try a variant of monopoly where the younger you are, the more turns you have to wait to start the game.
We also have a game called Anti-Monopoly
No rewards for passing Go until you’re late in the game.
They had to redo the rules a whole bunch to make it so that people’s don’t get bankrupted so fast.
That’s why monopoly games take forever nowadays. Just like with real life, capitalists just said “just imagine the bank can print endless money and act as if that were true”.
Because that’s never lead to anything bad right
From a board game review standpoint, the slowness of the game is my biggest issue. Losing a game of monopoly isn’t just counting the score and shrugging off a “good game”. You realize that the game is lost way before you actually lose. Meanwhile, you will have to spend a long time - possibly hours - just going through the motions. Roll the dice, pay your dues. Every small gain is slowly erased by the grinding losses. I refuse to play monopoly again.
On the contrary, a regular, by-the-book monopoly game is relatively short. It lasts forever because people don’t follow the rules and house rule catch-up mechanics - precisely because the rules as written are obviously lopsided and people can instinctively tell they’re unfair.
They at least had the forethought to implement a $200 universal basic income.
