Common Monopoly House Rules that are just awful.No Buying Before First Lap of the board.The Rules that people ignore make the game longer.Establishing a metric for “A Good Board Game” that will make Monopoly seem alright.Rob: Also Greg and I are tagging along on this one to talk about Monopoly because it’s Wednesday night and we felt like abusing our editor powers. GREGNOTE: Buddy if you want a lesson on the dangers of capitalism that takes less than an evening to play out, may I recommend a little television program you may have heard of, called THE NEWS? Blammo, mindfreaked. That said, it can be pretty fun to get in bidding wars that screw your friends over by forcing them to overpay for Baltic Avenue and if you find yourself stuck having to play Monopoly with family this holiday season, you may as well play the best possible version of the game, and become That Guy Who Forces His Family to Abide By the Rules of Monopoly. There are plenty of easier ways to learn about the soul-crushing dangers of capitalism, such as just being alive in the 21st century. Rob “TheChirurgeon” Jones’s Editor Note: Despite Rob “Vre’kais” Chilton’s insistence that Monopoly can, with the right adjustments, not be a completely awful time, it is not, in fact, a good board game and here at Goonhammer we do not recommend that you play it. In my personal experience one of the key problems is how long the game takes to play, though would you believe me if I told you that if you actually play by the rules in the box the game should only take about an hour and a half? That many of the rules your family cling to aren’t even in the book and actually make this hellish experience longer? What if I told you there was actually a board game with Monopoly in the title that was GOOD? Read on for all this and more! There’s many many reasons for this, such as the fact that it was designed ON PURPOSE to make people miserable as an allegory for the dangers of capitalism. Here’s the thing though: Monopoly is a bad board game. Pokemon, Simpsons, Star Wars Episode 1… you get the idea. It’s a festive time of year for many right now, and nothing helps to build happy family memories like a good board game! As a kid I loved Monopoly – I even have a small collection of variants of the game as I would get a new one for Christmas each year.

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