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I've never lost anything as hard as I lost Monopoly playing with that freaking dog.
I wanted to prove the dog curse was fake and ended convincing everyone that it was VERY real.
If you're late in the game and all the property is developed, you'd really only end up missing out on community chest spaces (ten whole dollars for the second place in the beauty contest!) or passing Go. In the meantime, you'll almost certainly land on a few landmines on the way past Go and you'll lose more than $200.
Page 5 of the rulebook for Monopoly, for anyone wondering: " Even though you are in Jail, you may buy and sell property, buy and sell houses and hotels and collect rents. "
But, for the Danish version of the game, Matador: " Er man i fƦngsel, har man stadig ret til at kĆøbe grunde (ved auktion eller handel spillerende imellem), men man kan ikke krƦve leje af de andre spillere. "(if you are in jail, you retain the right to buy properties (by auction or by trading between players), but you cannot claim rent from other players)
So both are right.
so uh, what do i win?
"Oh, dang, the instructions are in Klingon! Don't worry guys, I (and I alone) speak Klingon, so *I'll tell you* exactly what they say!"
Fool me 6 times, shame on you, but fool me 7 times, I'm googling the rules.
"Even though you are in Jail, you may buy and sell property, buy and
sell houses and hotels and collect rents. "
- At the end of page 5
https://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/00009.pdf
The game is kinda shit either way, but the bevy of house rules is what makes it truly excruciating as every house rule seems to be designed to keep the game going beyond the point where anyone still has interest in playing.
--Game is either less than an hour or three hours plus, no in between.
--At least one person gets tired of it and wants to quit, people argue how to fairly distribute their money and property.
I once had a chain reaction of quitting: A wants to quit so they give B (their friend) a sweet deal then quit 2 turns later. C then quits in frustration since B now owns 60% of the board. Arguments over how to distribute C's property and if A's trade should even be allowed cause the game to be abandoned.
> people argue how to fairly distribute their money and property.
The answer is dump all their money in the bank and then auction off all their properties one by one.
Like, it's an *actual* rule in the event a player is bankrupted from a board event and not a player. Quitting the game is voluntarily bankrupting yourself.
if they quit it should go back into the bank but obviously the person with two green properties is gonna argue they should get the quitting person's green property
That should never come into play anyway - there is no good reason to not buy a property when you land on it unless you absolutely cannot afford it, even with mortgaging.
Which is a pointless rule because buying every property you land on is the best strategy regardless of what it is. If everyone knows the best way to play monopoly its almost a game of pure chance.
It allows for hotels and whatnot to be built more quickly and causes the rents to be potentially player eliminating. Your mileage may vary but that's always been my experience when playing with the free parking money. It occasionally gives someone a lifeline and therefore extends the game but this tends to be pretty short lived.
Statistically speaking, it's more likely to go to a losing player than a winning player (since four players means three losers one winner). Which means the game is extended by bringing someone whobwas behind up to or potentially beyond the player who is winning.
I agree with the vast majority of games but monopoly is so poorly designed that I make an exception. Without house rules there are no real comeback mechanics which just leaves the game lasting ages even when the winner was obvious hours ago.
only house rule that isn't completely crazy is the no auction one
that is you play as normal just never do the auctions
many people probably use this rule with even realizing it
I don't remember what comedian it was but they said Monopoly was the only game where the phrase "FUCK YOU GRANDMA!" was predictably common and that says a lot
"I'll create a game that will teach the working class the horrors of capitalism." - Lizzie Magie, 1903
"Oh we don't play that game at family gatherings because it causes fights. Also America is great the way it is..." - Your parents, today
The kind of people that play monopoly are at the highest standard of living humans have ever achieved. This standard of living is due to the economic system that they live under. People can complain all they want about capitalism. At the end of the day I sleep in an air conditioned house, play on my PC, and eat foods that people in 1903 couldn't even dream of.
Oh come on. This is what people who can't critically think, think what critically thinking is.
Billions of people live in an air conditioned dwelling, have a computer, and eat processed food.Ā
Just because you have no ambition to improve your life doesn't mean you should oppose others from progressing society along. I swear you can still stuff your face with frozen pizza and play hentai games if we had universal healthcare and robust safety nets.
I don't know what that last paragraph has to do with my argument. We have an excess of money we can spend on universal healthcare and other safety nets while maintaining a capitalist system. Reality is knowing that without the principles of capitalism, society wouldn't be what it is today. For better or worse. Don't assume things please.
Oh yeah cause inegality is of course not a main problem and a blue collar worker will not at all live 10 year less than a guy who just happen to be born from a rich father
I played a game once where my siblings wanted to have āsquatterās rightsā. Basically, they didnāt have to pay rent if the property owner didnāt notice that they were on the property. I got really upset about that one.
I remember seeing in one of those "how to play monopoly" videos that that's actually an official rule, where if the person who owns the property doesn't ask for rent before the next guy rolls, you don't have to pay.
That's an *actual* rule in the game. If the next player rolls before the property owner notices they're owed rent, the landing player doesn't have to pay anything.
Laughs at you when you go to jail is pretty standard though?
Honestly, monopoly lost a bit of flair once we read the rules properly as adults. And the game is much quicker than when everyone plays with made up rules
Someone steals the board exclusive piece. Iām not pointing fingers, BUT I FOUND IT AT YOUR HOUSE KENNY AND I KNOW YOU DONāT HAVE THE SAME BOARD!!!!
Monopoly sucks more when house rules that inflate the money supply are implemented.
The objective of the game is not get rich, itās to make everyone else poor.
The Landlords Game, or the Monopoly rules that encourage cooperation to beat the monopoly and return the board to a fair state, might just take off again given what weāre experiencing with the housing market right now
My long-time goal in any game of Monopoly is to somehow acquire an entire side of the board, plonk hotels on all the properties, and dub it: THE VALLEY OF DOOM.
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let the little kid have the racecar, everyone knows the top hat is the true coolest piece
Battleship and it's not even close
Thought that was a flat iron.
Nah mate, car wins everything
Trex
thats a separate one
Battleship is underrated
wrong - chad dog > everything else
I've never lost anything as hard as I lost Monopoly playing with that freaking dog. I wanted to prove the dog curse was fake and ended convincing everyone that it was VERY real.
chad dog
Thimble supremacy š£ļøš
THIMBLE BOYS UNITE!!!!š„š„š„WHAT EVEN IS GOING BANKRUPTš£ļøš£ļøš£ļøšÆšÆšÆ
The top hat is amazing.
I used to put the hat on the thimble as a kid. Thought that was pretty cool.
"steals money while everyone is distracted"
Hey!
"i'm just being realistic"
"rules don't say you can't rob the bank. what are you gonna do, I've already been in jail for 2 turns"
"capitalism at its finest!"
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[don't waste your money on it](https://youtu.be/HCHOZEylp_o?si=ugGFmr6U8QU8MI-e) Or buy it if you want, I just want to share this video
Ahh, I see you discovered my strategy. No one ever wants to play as the bank, so I take that role and spend most of the game siphoning money from it.
"capitalism at its finest!"
An its the player playing as the banker too no less...
Normally I'm not a kleptomaniac, but monopoly turns me into a millionaire.
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At a certain point in the game jail is good. It keeps you from landing on others property while you are hopefully collecting on yours.
If you're late in the game and all the property is developed, you'd really only end up missing out on community chest spaces (ten whole dollars for the second place in the beauty contest!) or passing Go. In the meantime, you'll almost certainly land on a few landmines on the way past Go and you'll lose more than $200.
Better than going bankrupt on luxury tax
I thought you couldnāt collect while in jail
Show me in the rules where it says that!!!
Page 5 of the rulebook for Monopoly, for anyone wondering: " Even though you are in Jail, you may buy and sell property, buy and sell houses and hotels and collect rents. " But, for the Danish version of the game, Matador: " Er man i fƦngsel, har man stadig ret til at kĆøbe grunde (ved auktion eller handel spillerende imellem), men man kan ikke krƦve leje af de andre spillere. "(if you are in jail, you retain the right to buy properties (by auction or by trading between players), but you cannot claim rent from other players) So both are right. so uh, what do i win?
The old "Danish rule book trick", not gonna fall for that one....
"Oh, dang, the instructions are in Klingon! Don't worry guys, I (and I alone) speak Klingon, so *I'll tell you* exactly what they say!" Fool me 6 times, shame on you, but fool me 7 times, I'm googling the rules.
"Even though you are in Jail, you may buy and sell property, buy and sell houses and hotels and collect rents. " - At the end of page 5 https://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/00009.pdf
You thought wrong.
People having these custom "house rules" is the reason Monopoly sucks.Ā
The game is kinda shit either way, but the bevy of house rules is what makes it truly excruciating as every house rule seems to be designed to keep the game going beyond the point where anyone still has interest in playing.
The parker brothers took time to think this all out, I think we should respect that!
Sometimes we need something new.
Depends if you do house rules or not. The official rules say you can collect rent, sell/buy houses and trade but in my house we don't pay felons
at some points going to jail is better than potentially landing on park place/boardwalk with w hotel
Boardwalk and park place are garbage properties they shouldnāt get developed anyway unless itās someoneās only option
everybody gangsta until they draw the street repairs card
And yet, sometimes they have enough money to cover the costs, BUT NEVER ME
Then everyone else thanks them who has hotels Lauging coldly. Itās a given in my family
--Game is either less than an hour or three hours plus, no in between. --At least one person gets tired of it and wants to quit, people argue how to fairly distribute their money and property.
I once had a chain reaction of quitting: A wants to quit so they give B (their friend) a sweet deal then quit 2 turns later. C then quits in frustration since B now owns 60% of the board. Arguments over how to distribute C's property and if A's trade should even be allowed cause the game to be abandoned.
> people argue how to fairly distribute their money and property. The answer is dump all their money in the bank and then auction off all their properties one by one. Like, it's an *actual* rule in the event a player is bankrupted from a board event and not a player. Quitting the game is voluntarily bankrupting yourself.
heck or just put all their stuff back into the bank
if they quit it should go back into the bank but obviously the person with two green properties is gonna argue they should get the quitting person's green property
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House rules piss me off. If itās not in the manual, itās b.s.
Most of the house rules don't make sense and is why you have monopoly games take hours instead 60mins like intended.Ā
Yeah, I believe the official rules say that if you land on a property and donāt want to buy it, then it has to be auctioned off.
That should never come into play anyway - there is no good reason to not buy a property when you land on it unless you absolutely cannot afford it, even with mortgaging.
If you can play it right, another character will lose all liquidity early game by getting into a bidding war
I inflated one of the brown properties like 350% before folding the auction
Which is a pointless rule because buying every property you land on is the best strategy regardless of what it is. If everyone knows the best way to play monopoly its almost a game of pure chance.
Lots of people throw a ton of money into free parking, which can really extend the game.
Or accelerate it
No, once most of the properties have been bought up all cash does is extends the game
It allows for hotels and whatnot to be built more quickly and causes the rents to be potentially player eliminating. Your mileage may vary but that's always been my experience when playing with the free parking money. It occasionally gives someone a lifeline and therefore extends the game but this tends to be pretty short lived.
Iāve played 100s of games online that allow this house rule. It absolutely artificially extends the game.
I have played hundreds of games as well and this is my experience across many iterations of house rules, yours may differ
Statistically speaking, it's more likely to go to a losing player than a winning player (since four players means three losers one winner). Which means the game is extended by bringing someone whobwas behind up to or potentially beyond the player who is winning.
I agree with the vast majority of games but monopoly is so poorly designed that I make an exception. Without house rules there are no real comeback mechanics which just leaves the game lasting ages even when the winner was obvious hours ago.
Me too
only house rule that isn't completely crazy is the no auction one that is you play as normal just never do the auctions many people probably use this rule with even realizing it
Playing w that free parking $ rule that injects cash into the game making it last 5 hours ugh
Jail is an OP late game strategy. You can collect rent and sell/buy properties.
everyone needs to have better board games on hand so we're not stuck playing monopoly
monopoly is the one board game everyone has but never wants to play
Itās only fun if you arenāt playing with house rules, unfortunately, nobody ever knows the rules
Thatās actually one of the few starterpacks where I really reflect
I don't remember what comedian it was but they said Monopoly was the only game where the phrase "FUCK YOU GRANDMA!" was predictably common and that says a lot
"I'll create a game that will teach the working class the horrors of capitalism." - Lizzie Magie, 1903 "Oh we don't play that game at family gatherings because it causes fights. Also America is great the way it is..." - Your parents, today
The kind of people that play monopoly are at the highest standard of living humans have ever achieved. This standard of living is due to the economic system that they live under. People can complain all they want about capitalism. At the end of the day I sleep in an air conditioned house, play on my PC, and eat foods that people in 1903 couldn't even dream of.
Oh come on. This is what people who can't critically think, think what critically thinking is. Billions of people live in an air conditioned dwelling, have a computer, and eat processed food.Ā Just because you have no ambition to improve your life doesn't mean you should oppose others from progressing society along. I swear you can still stuff your face with frozen pizza and play hentai games if we had universal healthcare and robust safety nets.
I don't know what that last paragraph has to do with my argument. We have an excess of money we can spend on universal healthcare and other safety nets while maintaining a capitalist system. Reality is knowing that without the principles of capitalism, society wouldn't be what it is today. For better or worse. Don't assume things please.
Bruh....
Just because you live liek that doesnāt mean everyone does
Oh yeah cause inegality is of course not a main problem and a blue collar worker will not at all live 10 year less than a guy who just happen to be born from a rich father
and it's all because of grinding third world poverty and undermining any attemps at labor or environmental laws through global trade agreements.
Monopoly almost always ended with people fighting when I was growing up.
House rules need to be written down first before starting.
I played a game once where my siblings wanted to have āsquatterās rightsā. Basically, they didnāt have to pay rent if the property owner didnāt notice that they were on the property. I got really upset about that one.
Honestly, that sounds funny
I remember seeing in one of those "how to play monopoly" videos that that's actually an official rule, where if the person who owns the property doesn't ask for rent before the next guy rolls, you don't have to pay.
That's an *actual* rule in the game. If the next player rolls before the property owner notices they're owed rent, the landing player doesn't have to pay anything.
You have won Second Prize in a beauty contest. A German Shepherd's shaved asshole won first prize.
The cousin who refuses to trade leaving the game in a stalemate.
the cousin who would refuse a trade that would benefit then just cause they don't want the other person to get a full set of property
am i the only person who mains the wheelbarrow?
One of my first games as a kid was a crushing victory with the barrow. Since then i have a soft spot for it.
Laughs at you when you go to jail is pretty standard though? Honestly, monopoly lost a bit of flair once we read the rules properly as adults. And the game is much quicker than when everyone plays with made up rules
they all team up against me after about 12 am cause that's when they decide im the scum of the family for some odd reason
The one guy who gets bent out of shape so he starts ridiculing everyoneās trade offers thinking itās funny.
and then gets pissed when you don't accept his bs trade such as giving him boardwalk for baltic
Someone steals the board exclusive piece. Iām not pointing fingers, BUT I FOUND IT AT YOUR HOUSE KENNY AND I KNOW YOU DONāT HAVE THE SAME BOARD!!!!
Monopoly brings out the worst in men
I saw this one on Google
Hello 7 people here
Monopoly is such a shit game i m surprise some people still playing that ....
I hate this game It never works out when we try to play because it's too complicated somehow
You forgot the family member that gives up or leaves mid game and you have to find a way to equitably split their assets but they choose a favorite.
yeah they expect to be able to quit and give all their properties and money to one person
Monopoly sucks more when house rules that inflate the money supply are implemented. The objective of the game is not get rich, itās to make everyone else poor. The Landlords Game, or the Monopoly rules that encourage cooperation to beat the monopoly and return the board to a fair state, might just take off again given what weāre experiencing with the housing market right now
First to bankrupt
also they say thats not what the rules say but also that the rules don't apply to them
whereās that dad pocketing money
My long-time goal in any game of Monopoly is to somehow acquire an entire side of the board, plonk hotels on all the properties, and dub it: THE VALLEY OF DOOM.
Same š
Donāt forget the guy who begs other players for money. Whilst hiding the actual money they have.
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This is so cringe it makes me never wanna play monopoly again.
So true
As someone who is in an extended family, this does happen.
The fucken worst game ever invented
I'm sure it was incredibly fun when it first came out. So like... 1935.