Monopoly is the most boring fucking game with terrible mechanics. If everyone plays perfect strategy then the person with the better dice rolls wins, and it drags on forever, fuck this game.
When you get going you can easily finish in 15 mins.
There is little turn order benefit or starting-player advantage. Turn order reverses every age (only three ages in the game).
Who you sit next to absolutely matters. Out of 7 plays you will only have direct contact and conflict with 2 players. The other four players can only be interacted with indirectly.
Burning great cards is akin to playing scorched earth. There are five ways to point combo your way to victory (red, blue, green, yellow, and purple). These colors provide wambo-combos every age. When you have no good play, you can bury the best cards before anyone else can play them--denying your opponents refuge.
You get to play one card (if you met the requirements) every turn, at the end of the turn you pass your whole hand to one of your neighbors (in the current direction of turn order).
4 - Hatedrafting another player is generally a losing strategy. You won't win and he won't win, but one of the other players will win. You're just gifting the win to another player by hatedrafting.
Hatedrafting only makes sense if you're in 2nd and the other person is in 1st.
I.e., getting a useless science card to block the science player on your right. You cost him 7 points but cost yourself 5 points.
Also, 7 Wonders is good to play on BoardGameArena. The computer keeps score and enforces the rules, so the game goes quickly.
Truth is there is always the one person who spreads too thin, changes cards too soon and doesn't defend their border. I loved when these friends would bring a game I never played before they'd focus on each other and I'd always win. Eventually they'd gang on me even though I never even played the game because they were tired of always losing to me
Risk against good players is about holding a stalemate and breaking your opponents continents each turn long enough for card values to build up. Then time it to turn in your cards and do whatever you can to knock out the weakest player when they're holding 4 or 5 cards. You can immediately turn them in for more troops and reenforce mid attack. It's a quick snowball to a win when you get ~50 troops in a turn because you've got enough continents and territories to have a big edge even if someone else turns in cards.
Yup. People focus in too much on keeping a single continent bonus. Once I realized that, I started spreading my troops out in clusters so that no one could wipe me in one turn while I spent every turn taking at least one weak territory (preferably one that denies a continent bonus). Rinse repeat while everyone stalemates and overspends troops trying to consolidate continents. Since I was not fighting to hold a continent, most would make the mistake of ignoring or not prioritizing me.
Once I got enough card turn ins under my belt I'd go mongol horde and wipe the weakest player off the board and then steamroll everyone else.
I used to let my friends get away with that shit. I'd pretend like I didn't see so that they would feel like shit when they lost to me despite having cheated. Was one of the mind games I'd play on them. Like manipulating them against each other in risk and then picking up the pieces.
I read best way to win is to get a monopoly, build 3 houses on each, and never build again. Try to do it with two monopolies. (After people land on your first)
The strategy is to cause a housing shortage, so no one else can build, even if they get a monopoly.
I heard this too but never tried it. Mostly because I haven't found actual people who want to play monopoly. I played the card game which goes much quicker and it's actually kind of fun, my wife introduced it to me not long ago I'm not sure how long it's been around
I tried an idea that I had for Monopoly with some friends. "New rule," I said. "We are all independent real estate agents. We do not get paid a salary for doing nothing." So the rule change I made was no $200 for passing Go. Everything else was the same. I just shut off the influx of money into the system. (Four players, that's $800 extra cash entering the game every round, causing inflation)
It was really interesting. Money became VERY valuable. Recovery was impossible. I won by sinking all my resources into Baltic and Mediterranean. $250 was a fortune.
Lose your right to travel unmolested, your right to bear arms, your privacy was never there to begin. You will also be banned from all tech platforms which have become the new public square. And the old one is roped off for covid so don't think about yelling out loud in public either. Or you will be quarantined as a super spreader. And we will have plenty of space for you in the new covid prisons because they emptied out all the old prisons of pedophiles and gang bangers who now live in your community again.
The problem with these games is the roll to move mechanic. The whole flow of the game is based on what you roll and what you land on, what card you draw. Your choices are pretty much limited to “buy this or not”.
Euro style games use dice for some randomness but almost never as roll to move.
There are a ton of games out there that work better than monopoly, even some with elements of luck involved. Monopoly intentionally creates an early game advantage that snowballs into something insurmountable.
Some games that have chance that create tension and great back and forth moments:
Sheriff of Nottingham: A bluffing game with randomly drawn cards. I've come back from dead last to win because it depends on social dynamics to keep people in the game.
Ticket to Ride: Build trains across the country according to randomly drawn cards. The 'winner' isn't known until the end and will often have an upset victory.
Munchkin: Level up your hero and kill monsters, all with randomly drawn cards. The winner is rarely who gets to level 9 first, and there is no such thing as 'perfect' play.
Catan: Build your network of towns while dice rolls determine what resource nodes produce. While technically a solved game that allows for perfect play, perfect play is a set of a dozen or so rules, and requires a lot of modification for other players who also play perfectly.
I love playing board and card games, and few ever have had the Monopoly style mechanics that reduce the game to dice rolls and perfect play. Monopoly has no hidden information (every player knows everything at once), so it's impossible to guess or converse about anything. The only resource is money, and managing it is simple: Buy everything you land on. Upgrade everything when you have a monopoly. Don't trade to give others a monopoly.
There are a ton of games out there that work better than monopoly, even some with elements of luck involved. Monopoly intentionally creates an early game advantage that snowballs into something insurmountable.
People actually forget it was supposed to be a satirical take on Capitalism and how the robber baron is an inevitable outcome. It's missing the part where you get to sue each other or get arrested for cheating the system until you can afford to pay off the government for Liability protection.
Then it needs a late game feudalism stage, where the top players declare themselves kings and duke it out in four centuries of risk like warfare using the losing layers as cannon fodder.
It can also be a great simulator for communism. If everyone agrees not to own property, all players can keep going around the board collecting $200 until the bank runs out of money.
Exactly. The game does what it is supposed to do. Brainwash, not entertain.
I would play the heck out of a board game that started out as an economic sim and ended up in warfare. I love the RTS genre on my PC. Age of Empires / Civilization are both great games.
Sounds like a great time. I put the most time into AoE 2 when i was in my early teens.
I played mostly with a small group of friends. None of us liked losing in the early game so we'd usually have a 1 hour truce to start any game. And we'd build massive empires. Every game went 3+ hours.
I also played a lot with my family. Me, a sister, and my parents (Dad owned a PC sales business, so we always had spare PCs around for a LAN party).
My favorite strategy came from my Mom. She'd load a boat full of monks and hide it in the corner of the map. She'd wait until war started, and then convert all of your houses. It took me forever to realize what had happened, and by then it was too late.
Also, have you seen the Definitive Editions that were just released? They did an incredible job of updating the game for today's PCs. I don't have as much time to play as I did back then, but the game looks and plays smoother than ever. And they've included a ton of new content as well.
Just have a deeper game tree.
The same issue of game theory optimal gameplay solutions (nash equilibrium) exists in poker, but it's a lot more fun because no human can implement those solutions perfectly.
Remember Miss Monopoly where the rules say that women had to start with more money than the men to make up for the pay gap and those idiots didn’t realize if no men played, all of the players would have the same amount of money?
Cuz if you are a male playing Ms Monopoly, don’t forget to tell your wife bye as she goes to her boyfriend’s house. Jeez.
Oh man, just imagine how it will look like in a few years, new feminist movement against trans-patriarchy, because trans creatures will dominate the female world 😂
My local Walmart got in a huge pallet of those a couple months before Christmas the year it came out. By January, they still had 3/4 of the pallet and it was discounted by 50%.
In order for a more equitable outcome, black tokens will now receive an automatic universal basic income of 2000 per move, a free bond card for the jail, and no need to pay any rent when landing on the racist hotel spots.
It is an accurate depiction of zero liability Corporatism since there is no legal system whatsoever.
Everything the left hates about Capitalism is what the right hates about major corporations and the fact that they outright control our government. They've just been convinced that is "capitalism" while we are talking about "free trade" when we use their own marxist word to defend ourselves.
With an actual media reporting reality, and education system teaching history, this divide would not exist.
Anti Communist would be. Everyone is given $200 ubi, but you have to pay $200 in taxes when you land on a building (all buildings are IRS offices. Game is over once you run out. The trains, jail, chance, community chest, and free parking is free though as they are supported by sky high taxes.
Agreed. My take on anti-socialism monoploy would work like this.
Every turn, each player is given $200 universal basic income. If you land on an owned property, the bank (governemnt) pays for you. If the bank runs out of money the whole system collapses and all players loose.
Pretty sure because they made the socialism one which was very much so treated socialsm like joke which pissed off a lot of antifa types on twitter until it got removed from stores.
That's what I was trying to remember but the closest I could was the feminism one, which I really couldn't understand the outrage because it came after the socialism one.
"Instead of properties, buy female made inventions!" (Paraphrased).
Then they go on to list things that were slightly altered or improved upon by women. Half the time outright lying about it.
Bulletproof vest was the biggest one I saw. Yes, KEVLAR was developed by a female, but the concept of the bulletproof vest has been around since the 1500's.
Why are all the volunteer jobs on the cards earning you money? Are we teaching people that they “deserve” to be paid for helping others in the community?
Honestly, not all of those are bad to anyone who actually read through that... I believe in shopping local, helping neighbors, organizing block parties to get to know your neighbors, giving to charity, volunteering at the old folks center.... Those are all traditional American values of honesty, community and helping others in your community!!..... I was waiting for the "you just got your first female hormone injection collect 20k" cards.... These are really not that bad... Before you comment read the article and the cards I don't really see a problem with most of them... Some of them are fucking soft and that type of shit turns our kids into pussies.... But the community stuff and shop local stuff... What's wrong with that??
Things like "you organized a bake sale, collect $25" make sense because its teaching kids simple entrepreneurship. "You cleaned the community garden and found a new bug, collect $25" not only makes no sense, it sounds like some commie CHAZ shit.
"You volunteer your art skills and point a mural at the local school! COLLECT $50"
vs.
"You organize a group to clean up your town's walking path. COLLECT $50
Those things COST money you absolute fucking mongs.
I agree. The article screamed "woke" several times, but finding a new insect and naming it or spending time with an elderly neighbor doesn't seem particularly left to me. I read the article expecting the worst, but came away more puzzled at its tone than anything.
This move seems more like a company trying to keep their game relevant. Especially nowadays when there are objectively more fun games out there eating Monopoly's lunch. Yes, Catan is better than Monopoly, stop denying the science.
These companies are missing a massive golden opportunity to play the game without playing the game and profit off both sides without taking a stance.
This one for example... Why not let anyone make any version of the game by filling in the required digital assets (graphics, logos, text, names) and let the free market decide? Anything with more than X pre-orders gets made.
Simple.
If the woke crowd wants to popularize their own version of Monopoly, have at it. Nobody here cares. But when they're offering up the original of anything to be erased by this nonsense people get really turned off.
Monopoly was already "woke" in that it put capitalism in a bad light. Changing the game is virtue signaling at it's finest.... OOH Look how woke we are!!
Monopoly has already gone woke. People make fun of their "communist" edition but they also made a YAS KWEEN SLAY edition with lies about women in history.
get woke go broke, I well never buy Hasbro again, I have many old games we play, especially when the power goes out and I can't be here, why ruin a game that teaches kids about economics, large rewards like the lottery, taxes, and the punishment of going to jail because your are at the wrong place at the wrong time, it also teaches investment and how to negotiate
Monopoly is the most boring fucking game with terrible mechanics. If everyone plays perfect strategy then the person with the better dice rolls wins, and it drags on forever, fuck this game.
I learned with Risk the objectives make the game objectively more fun.
But I really just play Catan.
It's a solid game that balances luck with strategy.
Every game is completely different than the next and it relies on shrewdness and good bargaining more than dumb luck
Do it, enjoy. I suggest random board minus desert. Non random number placement. Roll for snake placement.
Yo dawg, I'mma let you finish but Seven Wonders is the best board game of all time.
I haven’t played that one yet. I’ve heard good things about it. I have a pretty large collection at this point.
It's the quickest 7 person game I've ever played.
When you get going you can easily finish in 15 mins.
There is little turn order benefit or starting-player advantage. Turn order reverses every age (only three ages in the game).
Who you sit next to absolutely matters. Out of 7 plays you will only have direct contact and conflict with 2 players. The other four players can only be interacted with indirectly.
Burning great cards is akin to playing scorched earth. There are five ways to point combo your way to victory (red, blue, green, yellow, and purple). These colors provide wambo-combos every age. When you have no good play, you can bury the best cards before anyone else can play them--denying your opponents refuge.
You get to play one card (if you met the requirements) every turn, at the end of the turn you pass your whole hand to one of your neighbors (in the current direction of turn order).
so wut game is?
4 - Hatedrafting another player is generally a losing strategy. You won't win and he won't win, but one of the other players will win. You're just gifting the win to another player by hatedrafting.
Hatedrafting only makes sense if you're in 2nd and the other person is in 1st.
I.e., getting a useless science card to block the science player on your right. You cost him 7 points but cost yourself 5 points.
Also, 7 Wonders is good to play on BoardGameArena. The computer keeps score and enforces the rules, so the game goes quickly.
Catan is broken. Sheep FTW.
Haha I got wood for sheep 😉
Truth is there is always the one person who spreads too thin, changes cards too soon and doesn't defend their border. I loved when these friends would bring a game I never played before they'd focus on each other and I'd always win. Eventually they'd gang on me even though I never even played the game because they were tired of always losing to me
so catan is worth first pede game? sounds like it has frens?
I say yes!
Fuck risk. When I was like 12 I played risk with* dad and my younger sibs. He destroyed us, never took the foot of the gas.
He was savage. Come to think of it even playing checkers with my grandfather (dad's pops) he never let us win either. Savages
I stopped playing chess with my dad because he would take forever to make a move. I'd be bored after the first 6 moves because an hour already went by
Fortunately my dad is Deep Blue so I never had that problem.
So he's good at playing the metagame, but potentially not the actual game. If you ever want to play with him again, insist on using a chess clock.
Risk against good players is about holding a stalemate and breaking your opponents continents each turn long enough for card values to build up. Then time it to turn in your cards and do whatever you can to knock out the weakest player when they're holding 4 or 5 cards. You can immediately turn them in for more troops and reenforce mid attack. It's a quick snowball to a win when you get ~50 troops in a turn because you've got enough continents and territories to have a big edge even if someone else turns in cards.
Yup. People focus in too much on keeping a single continent bonus. Once I realized that, I started spreading my troops out in clusters so that no one could wipe me in one turn while I spent every turn taking at least one weak territory (preferably one that denies a continent bonus). Rinse repeat while everyone stalemates and overspends troops trying to consolidate continents. Since I was not fighting to hold a continent, most would make the mistake of ignoring or not prioritizing me.
Once I got enough card turn ins under my belt I'd go mongol horde and wipe the weakest player off the board and then steamroll everyone else.
I approve this use of YOLO.
It's a great term. It's just dumb to use it to justify stupidity.
We used to ay "Risk" as a squad in Afghanistan - you really wanna up the ante in your board games? Give every player an M4 and a grenade 🤣🤣
I used to steal from the bank when the person holding the money looked away.
^ I fucking KNEW it Dave!
Might want to look into cheaters edition of monopoly.
I believe that would be the Dominion Edition.
I learned how to easily peel off 2 bills at a time. Found three looked to obvious.
I used to let my friends get away with that shit. I'd pretend like I didn't see so that they would feel like shit when they lost to me despite having cheated. Was one of the mind games I'd play on them. Like manipulating them against each other in risk and then picking up the pieces.
They won't play bored games with me anymore.
I call that the buy on every dice land strat.
Well hold on now. Me, you, and many other people have made tons of memories with this game. Good, bad, and friendship braking memories.
Monopoly is blood sport to my wife’s cousins, it’s ruined more than a few Christmas and Easter celebrations.
I watched two friends almost get a divorce over a game. Not even kidding.
Gonna go waaayyy out on a limb here and say there might have been some baggage leading up to that game.
Lmao was a little at the time. They are happy with two little ones now thankfully.
That simpsons episode when Millhouses got divorced after playing picturgraph
Monopoly and Parcheesi are the bloodsports in my family.
Euchre for mine.
I love Euchre, but I’m the only one in my family that knows how to play. I can’t count the score for shit, but I can play. 🤣
Scoring is a bitch. Alot easier with 2 5s vs the damn 2 and 3.
Do you play with the jokers?
I’ve played with jokers before, but it was too confusing. Usually play without them.
Are we related?
I bought it recently. They got rid of the thimble. BASTARDS!!
I read best way to win is to get a monopoly, build 3 houses on each, and never build again. Try to do it with two monopolies. (After people land on your first)
The strategy is to cause a housing shortage, so no one else can build, even if they get a monopoly.
Depends on the player count too. Buy red and orange properties for 3-4 players.
Top left corner iirc is the best one to develop.
I heard this too but never tried it. Mostly because I haven't found actual people who want to play monopoly. I played the card game which goes much quicker and it's actually kind of fun, my wife introduced it to me not long ago I'm not sure how long it's been around
I tried an idea that I had for Monopoly with some friends. "New rule," I said. "We are all independent real estate agents. We do not get paid a salary for doing nothing." So the rule change I made was no $200 for passing Go. Everything else was the same. I just shut off the influx of money into the system. (Four players, that's $800 extra cash entering the game every round, causing inflation)
It was really interesting. Money became VERY valuable. Recovery was impossible. I won by sinking all my resources into Baltic and Mediterranean. $250 was a fortune.
Monopoly is a boring game but with regard to your second statement, how would you suggest a game with elements of skill and luck work otherwise?
You were caught protesting a stolen election. Go directly to jail. Do not collect your stimulus check.
Lose your right to travel unmolested, your right to bear arms, your privacy was never there to begin. You will also be banned from all tech platforms which have become the new public square. And the old one is roped off for covid so don't think about yelling out loud in public either. Or you will be quarantined as a super spreader. And we will have plenty of space for you in the new covid prisons because they emptied out all the old prisons of pedophiles and gang bangers who now live in your community again.
thats pretty based
Too soon.
Good one 😂😂😂
You're a pretty funny dude
The problem with these games is the roll to move mechanic. The whole flow of the game is based on what you roll and what you land on, what card you draw. Your choices are pretty much limited to “buy this or not”.
Euro style games use dice for some randomness but almost never as roll to move.
There are a ton of games out there that work better than monopoly, even some with elements of luck involved. Monopoly intentionally creates an early game advantage that snowballs into something insurmountable.
Some games that have chance that create tension and great back and forth moments:
Sheriff of Nottingham: A bluffing game with randomly drawn cards. I've come back from dead last to win because it depends on social dynamics to keep people in the game.
Ticket to Ride: Build trains across the country according to randomly drawn cards. The 'winner' isn't known until the end and will often have an upset victory.
Munchkin: Level up your hero and kill monsters, all with randomly drawn cards. The winner is rarely who gets to level 9 first, and there is no such thing as 'perfect' play.
Catan: Build your network of towns while dice rolls determine what resource nodes produce. While technically a solved game that allows for perfect play, perfect play is a set of a dozen or so rules, and requires a lot of modification for other players who also play perfectly.
I love playing board and card games, and few ever have had the Monopoly style mechanics that reduce the game to dice rolls and perfect play. Monopoly has no hidden information (every player knows everything at once), so it's impossible to guess or converse about anything. The only resource is money, and managing it is simple: Buy everything you land on. Upgrade everything when you have a monopoly. Don't trade to give others a monopoly.
Thus the name?
People actually forget it was supposed to be a satirical take on Capitalism and how the robber baron is an inevitable outcome. It's missing the part where you get to sue each other or get arrested for cheating the system until you can afford to pay off the government for Liability protection.
Then it needs a late game feudalism stage, where the top players declare themselves kings and duke it out in four centuries of risk like warfare using the losing layers as cannon fodder.
We'll call it the Great Reset Edition.
It can also be a great simulator for communism. If everyone agrees not to own property, all players can keep going around the board collecting $200 until the bank runs out of money.
Exactly. The game does what it is supposed to do. Brainwash, not entertain.
I would play the heck out of a board game that started out as an economic sim and ended up in warfare. I love the RTS genre on my PC. Age of Empires / Civilization are both great games.
Sounds like a great time. I put the most time into AoE 2 when i was in my early teens.
I played mostly with a small group of friends. None of us liked losing in the early game so we'd usually have a 1 hour truce to start any game. And we'd build massive empires. Every game went 3+ hours.
I also played a lot with my family. Me, a sister, and my parents (Dad owned a PC sales business, so we always had spare PCs around for a LAN party).
My favorite strategy came from my Mom. She'd load a boat full of monks and hide it in the corner of the map. She'd wait until war started, and then convert all of your houses. It took me forever to realize what had happened, and by then it was too late.
Also, have you seen the Definitive Editions that were just released? They did an incredible job of updating the game for today's PCs. I don't have as much time to play as I did back then, but the game looks and plays smoother than ever. And they've included a ton of new content as well.
Just have a deeper game tree. The same issue of game theory optimal gameplay solutions (nash equilibrium) exists in poker, but it's a lot more fun because no human can implement those solutions perfectly.
Learn to slide dice? Sneak a pair of load die?
It has to be based on luck or else the parents would destroy their kids or the dumb kid would always lose and develop self esteem problems.
I tried playing Mario Party as an adult and found the same thing... it mostly depends on where the stars show up.
In other news Chess announced they’re updating their pieces to nothing but white knights.
Oh that's fucking good mate.
i agree LOL
Not sure if this was a pun, but I’m taking it as if it was
I'll allow it!
Black knights, you fucking rayciss.
Remember Miss Monopoly where the rules say that women had to start with more money than the men to make up for the pay gap and those idiots didn’t realize if no men played, all of the players would have the same amount of money?
Cuz if you are a male playing Ms Monopoly, don’t forget to tell your wife bye as she goes to her boyfriend’s house. Jeez.
Lmao, you're so yesterday
Just identify as a woman, bigot! Problem solved!
Identify as a woman, smoke them, prove men are better at everything including being a woman.
Oh man, just imagine how it will look like in a few years, new feminist movement against trans-patriarchy, because trans creatures will dominate the female world 😂
My local Walmart got in a huge pallet of those a couple months before Christmas the year it came out. By January, they still had 3/4 of the pallet and it was discounted by 50%.
You get a $40k head start because you open by suing the bank for blatant illegal sexism.
In order for a more equitable outcome, black tokens will now receive an automatic universal basic income of 2000 per move, a free bond card for the jail, and no need to pay any rent when landing on the racist hotel spots.
Are you allowed to choose your method of hotel removal? Fire, sledge hammer, looting spree?
Only if you draw the Mostly Peaceful Protest card.
This is fake news. No adult ever liked this game.
And kids only like it if they win and can make the other players miserable for hours.
Kids like it for about a half hour. Then they get bored because it basically becomes math.
Stealing from the bank when they got up for a drink was the best part.
Hahaha! You guys are killing me.so true.
Monopoly is an anti-capitalist game The whole point of it was to 'prove' how rent makes the rich richer and the poor poorer.
It's not a good game because it's designed to make the losers hate capitalism.
It's not 'going woke'. it's returning to its roots.
An anti-communist monopoly would work like this:
All properties can't be bought and don't charge anything except for utilities, since they are all government owned.
You can only go around the board and collect your $200 UBI, land on "go to jail", and the tax, chance and community chest spots.
The game is over once everyone is out of money.
Sounds as fun as the original!
Honestly, though. Even the real game is terrible. It is 100% the liberal mindset.
It is an accurate depiction of zero liability Corporatism since there is no legal system whatsoever.
Everything the left hates about Capitalism is what the right hates about major corporations and the fact that they outright control our government. They've just been convinced that is "capitalism" while we are talking about "free trade" when we use their own marxist word to defend ourselves.
With an actual media reporting reality, and education system teaching history, this divide would not exist.
They have a monopoly socialism edition and it's fucking hilarious. some of the customer reviews are from libs crying about the cards in the game lol.
Or when the bank runs out of money
Anti Communist would be. Everyone is given $200 ubi, but you have to pay $200 in taxes when you land on a building (all buildings are IRS offices. Game is over once you run out. The trains, jail, chance, community chest, and free parking is free though as they are supported by sky high taxes.
Agreed. My take on anti-socialism monoploy would work like this.
Every turn, each player is given $200 universal basic income. If you land on an owned property, the bank (governemnt) pays for you. If the bank runs out of money the whole system collapses and all players loose.
Its just a game peoople jeez
If you asked to play a game of it with me, I'd still play.
If you tell me it's going woke, I'll remind you of its history.
This wasn't an invitation to a game.
Didn't monopoly make a joke version about feminism?
You sure it was a joke?
It definitely was, but they weren't joking.
Pretty sure because they made the socialism one which was very much so treated socialsm like joke which pissed off a lot of antifa types on twitter until it got removed from stores.
Also a Socialism edition. It was hilarious and really pissed the communists off.
That's what I was trying to remember but the closest I could was the feminism one, which I really couldn't understand the outrage because it came after the socialism one.
Trollopoly.
Yes.
You sure it's a joke?
Boardwalk replaced with "Chocolate Chip Cookies". BWHAHAHA!
The Ms Monopoly game makes me laugh.
"Instead of properties, buy female made inventions!" (Paraphrased).
Then they go on to list things that were slightly altered or improved upon by women. Half the time outright lying about it.
Bulletproof vest was the biggest one I saw. Yes, KEVLAR was developed by a female, but the concept of the bulletproof vest has been around since the 1500's.
the Community chest already has positive cards in it.
<< the Community chest already has positive cards in it.
[only for POC though..]
"You shat out another baby with an absentee father. Collect $50 on every roll from every other player."
“You successfully crossed the US - Mexico border. Collect $100 from every other player and a property of your choosing.”
"... every time you pass a railroad."
That one would probably be glued together to the "Get out of Jail Free" card.
😄
'Bank accidently adds a '0' to your balance, Collect $100. bucks.'
Why are all the volunteer jobs on the cards earning you money? Are we teaching people that they “deserve” to be paid for helping others in the community?
New chest card: "Smoke weed all day and complain online. Collect nothing."
Honestly, not all of those are bad to anyone who actually read through that... I believe in shopping local, helping neighbors, organizing block parties to get to know your neighbors, giving to charity, volunteering at the old folks center.... Those are all traditional American values of honesty, community and helping others in your community!!..... I was waiting for the "you just got your first female hormone injection collect 20k" cards.... These are really not that bad... Before you comment read the article and the cards I don't really see a problem with most of them... Some of them are fucking soft and that type of shit turns our kids into pussies.... But the community stuff and shop local stuff... What's wrong with that??
Mostly I don't like that they are so long. You'll read once and then never again.
"Spread your Asshole open for your lonely Faggot neighbor. He pays you $50"
Get a sex change, collect $10
"Derek Chauvin exonerated on all charges. Pass Go, Collect 27 million."
Things like "you organized a bake sale, collect $25" make sense because its teaching kids simple entrepreneurship. "You cleaned the community garden and found a new bug, collect $25" not only makes no sense, it sounds like some commie CHAZ shit.
It will be renamed as communist chest
The get out of jail free card is no longer relevant due to no cash bail. Pass an NGO and collect $200 Soros bocks.
Community Chest-feeding... don't want to offend anyone...
You find a bug and get $25. Wtf
He named it, so obviously he's retarded.
I also saw the ‘you play loud music and your neighbors didn’t like it, go to jail’ one. Absolutely stupid.
It should say "your neighbor didn't like it, and came over to tell you to stfu, so you decapitated him on the spot, go to jail" very woke
I’m shocked they didn’t just abolish jail for wokeness.
I read the options and it doesn't look that woke to me.
The only feel-good moment you need, is driving your entire family into bankruptcy.
Did any of you actually read the cards or just get mad at the clickbait title?
The cards really are not woke, there is no SJW bullshit, they’re all about being a good neighbor, shopping local, and doing volunteer work.
Those are all good things and not woke at all. This is clickbait bullshit.
I gave up on mainstream board games when they replaced Mrs White in Clue.
Hold on theu got rid of ms white? Guess they are coming after me next then
Lol nice name.
Yeah they replaced her with an Asian female named Dr. Orchid.
Add board games to list of things commies have ruined!
"You burn down your city. Get out of jail free!"
"You successfully rigged your local election. Gain $200!"
"You said offensive words on Facebook. Go directly to jail."
So all the cards were woke gay shit and at the end, in typical democrat commie fashion, it says,
"WANT TO REALLY MAKE SURE YOUR VOICE IS HEARD? CLICK BELOW TO VOTE AGAIN!"
🤦♂️
Fact check: false.
Most Monopoly games nearly end in fist fights.
Those things COST money you absolute fucking mongs.
Honestly, the new cards don't really seem bad. There's plenty of woke shit out there, but this ain't it.
Stuff changes, not always for the worse.
I agree. The article screamed "woke" several times, but finding a new insect and naming it or spending time with an elderly neighbor doesn't seem particularly left to me. I read the article expecting the worst, but came away more puzzled at its tone than anything.
This move seems more like a company trying to keep their game relevant. Especially nowadays when there are objectively more fun games out there eating Monopoly's lunch. Yes, Catan is better than Monopoly, stop denying the science.
Those cards are peak cringe and autism mixed into one.
These companies are missing a massive golden opportunity to play the game without playing the game and profit off both sides without taking a stance.
This one for example... Why not let anyone make any version of the game by filling in the required digital assets (graphics, logos, text, names) and let the free market decide? Anything with more than X pre-orders gets made.
Simple.
If the woke crowd wants to popularize their own version of Monopoly, have at it. Nobody here cares. But when they're offering up the original of anything to be erased by this nonsense people get really turned off.
you mean pay $1000 to each illegal player
Nothing is sacred....
Monopoly was already "woke" in that it put capitalism in a bad light. Changing the game is virtue signaling at it's finest.... OOH Look how woke we are!!
Monopoly has already gone woke. People make fun of their "communist" edition but they also made a YAS KWEEN SLAY edition with lies about women in history.
get woke go broke, I well never buy Hasbro again, I have many old games we play, especially when the power goes out and I can't be here, why ruin a game that teaches kids about economics, large rewards like the lottery, taxes, and the punishment of going to jail because your are at the wrong place at the wrong time, it also teaches investment and how to negotiate
New cards to include " Your business was looted by BLM protesters, pay $1,000" and "Get arrested for attending a Trump rally, go directly to jail."
This is my husband’s favorite game and he just stormed out of the room because I read 5 of them outloud.
I mean, I hate monopoly. But way to kill your fan base.
Guess we'll just have to keep the old ones.
Cuz Hasbro did not learn their lesson from Ms. Monopoly
This version will make people flip the board at the beginning of the game.
Can we stop falling for these obvious marketing scams?
Get Woke....
I bought a copy of monopoly socialism edition and will probably keep it in the package still. I was surprised they even made it and it's hilarious.
As long as everyone feels good, who cares about strategy.
BLM burned down your building, pay $200.
Your restrooms were not gender neutral, go straight to jail.
Get woke go broke. Fuck monopoly and fuck hasbro.
One of the new cards: "Your career criminal relative OD'd on fentanyl. Collect $27 Million."
I really hope they update "go to jail" with a more inclusive "go to the overflow facility".
Half those cards are “Volunteer -> collect payment” ... communists. Lmao.
Fuck these people. Seriously. Fuck them
This is so cucked. Fuck the lowlifes of society & everything about them for enabling bullshit like this to happen. They can all go to hell