The abuse comes from people who don’t play by the rules. No property auctions, put tons of money on free parking that goes to whoever lands there, that kind of shit. This is what makes monopoly take hours.
Even playing that way, monopoly is still a single-winner game of course, which is what elizabeth magie wanted to demonstrate.
Another other unintended lesson is that ruthless profit-seeking hacks will enclose / steal any idea or invention, reinvent it, and claim it as their own. It was and remains a model for silicon valley.
And that’s what we do IRL too, a bunch of people aren’t playing by the rules, creating false hope through windfall lotteries, so it’s taking longer to get to the part where we flip the board in frustration and destroy the bank… Behead the mega rich and seize the means of production.
The way my wife and I play is who can cheat the most and get away with it. If your caught cheating it’s a flip of the coin whether or not you get put in jail. At which point people usually forget that they have to pass you and you can usually just start rolling the dice again and hope you don’t get called out for escaping from jail.
The abuse comes from people who don’t play by the rules. No property auctions, put tons of money on free parking that goes to whoever lands there, that kind of shit. This is what makes monopoly take hours.
Even playing that way, monopoly is still a single-winner game of course, which is what elizabeth magie wanted to demonstrate.
Another other unintended lesson is that ruthless profit-seeking hacks will enclose / steal any idea or invention, reinvent it, and claim it as their own. It was and remains a model for silicon valley.
And that’s what we do IRL too, a bunch of people aren’t playing by the rules, creating false hope through windfall lotteries, so it’s taking longer to get to the part where we flip the board in frustration and destroy the bank… Behead the mega rich and seize the means of production.
I love playing free parking rules! Makes the whole game feel much more realistic since its literally a diceroll
The way my wife and I play is who can cheat the most and get away with it. If your caught cheating it’s a flip of the coin whether or not you get put in jail. At which point people usually forget that they have to pass you and you can usually just start rolling the dice again and hope you don’t get called out for escaping from jail.
Wait what’s this rule about someone going past you in jail? I thought you had to roll doubles to get out?
Also jail is the best place to be late game.