Monopoly
This past Tuesday, Adiel and I did something I haven’t done for about 15 years - we played Monoploy together. Adiel ordered a bunch of new games for the two of us and this was the first one we played. It was a lot of fun and a different activity than the usual. We each ended up owning only one ‘Monopoly’ of colors, me the yellow and he the blue. And I had all the Railroads and he had all of the Utilities. Even though he had the blues and I landed on Boardwalk with a house once, I still won because I put THREE houses on Marvin Gardens, and he landed there three times!! But Adiel was a good sport and played until his last property was mortgaged and his last dollar was spent. I felt bad making my own husband go bankrupt but it was fun game to play.
The game is a classic, around almost 75 years. It hasn’t changed all that much either, although they did introduce the ’speed die’ which we opted not to play with. However, there were some things that I remembered doing as a kid which were different now, reading the rules. But almost everyone I spoke to remembers playing like me, so I don’t know if Monopoly used to have different rules, or if someone very popular made up some additional rules and they just spread like wildfire.
The rules were:
1) Snake eyes. Remember, if you got two ones, you get one of each bill?
2) Landing on Go. You get $500 instead of $200. This would’ve helped Adiel a lot, he landed on Go like 5 times.
And the best one of all; 3) Free Parking, you get all of the money that had built up from the ‘bank’ plus the extra $500. The Monopoly people must have even known about this because they clearly stated ‘when landing on free parking, you get no money, you just get to stay there for free’ (as opposed to paying rent when landing on properties of others).
Anyway, let me know if you remember anything different about playing Monopoly when you were a kid.
This week: The Trump Game! You’re all invited 