Everyone who owned Mouse Trap played it properly once, learned that the game itself was fucking lame, and then just proceeded to fuck around with the contraption part.
IMO, the “free parking rule” is necessary for a healthy game of Monopoly. Otherwise, the game will drag on for hours with players just slowly whittling away at each other’s properties until eventually everybody has been completely bled out.
However, that’s an intentional part of the game design; the original Monopoly was meant to showcase just how agonizing unchecked capitalistic greed can be, so games that run a long time with Pyrrhic victories are completely intended. But if you’ve got a life to live, you need to play with a few house rules to speed things along.
Everyone who owned Mouse Trap played it properly once, learned that the game itself was fucking lame, and then just proceeded to fuck around with the contraption part.
Free parking rule is complete ass and makes the game take ages. People going bankrupt faster is a positive.
Alternate Free Parking rule for faster gameplay: Landing on Free Parking immediately bankrupts the player. This rule is called “Expensive Parking.”
I prefer Antimonopoly.
It’s a real game, look it up.
I love how Wikipedia says the idea for anti-monopoly goes back to The Landlord’s Game, which is what became Monopoly in the first place. 🤣
I remember we had that when I was a kid with all the other family board games, but I don’t remember anyone ever playing it.
IMO, the “free parking rule” is necessary for a healthy game of Monopoly. Otherwise, the game will drag on for hours with players just slowly whittling away at each other’s properties until eventually everybody has been completely bled out.
However, that’s an intentional part of the game design; the original Monopoly was meant to showcase just how agonizing unchecked capitalistic greed can be, so games that run a long time with Pyrrhic victories are completely intended. But if you’ve got a life to live, you need to play with a few house rules to speed things along.