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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.

It sucks when playing by the rules too.

Last game of monopoly we played strictly by the rules with four players. So I'm coming around the board and can know the the most likely outcome is that I'm going to land on a property with a hotel and go bankrupt. According to the rules I'd have to hand over all of my properties to that person that person just won the game even though there would still be three players. There's nearly zero probability that someone with a big pile of cash that owns half the properties with hotels on a bunch of them already will ever lose.

So before rolling the dice, I sold all of my houses. Band made a couple of deals with the youngest family member in the game. First deal, I bought the electric company for all the money I had. Second deal, I sold all of my property (including the electric company) for $1 to that same player. Rolled the dice and as expected, landed on a property with a hotel. Handed over the $1 I had and I was out. This is all fine to do within the rules.

It actually made for an interesting game after that because the players left were evenly matched. But not everyone saw it that way so we never played again.

Really the properties should go back to the bank if someone goes bankrupt, otherwise a game with more than two people is effectively over as soon as the the first person goes bankrupt. Still nothing you can do about someone just setting up someone else to win by making a bad deal (whether intentionally or not).

It's just kinda a shit game no matter what you do.

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.

I love playing free parking rules! Makes the whole game feel much more realistic since its literally a diceroll