2-8 Players -- 8+
designer: Charles Darrow and George S. parker
artist: Charles Darrow
publisher: Parker Brothers, Hasbro
list price: $18.75
play time: 2-1/2 hours
The classic real estate game. Buy properties, build houses and hotels, collect rent from fellow players. Repeat as necessary until everyone else is bankrupt.
*****
If you haven't heard of Monopoly, then looking through this blog is probably not for you. This is the original 'bad-ass' board game. It takes forever to play and you win by completely dominating (or bankrupting) all the other players.
There's not a lot of thought that goes in to this -- you march around the board based on your dice roll and if you have the money, you buy property when you land on it. If someone else already owns it, you pay rent for the time you are there. The owners try to collect property of the same color. When they own all of one color, they can begin to build houses, and ultimately hotels on their property, making the rent more expensive for the other players.
I've never been much of a fan of the game, even as a youngster ... it just takes too darn long to play! Two and a half hours is not unusual. And you are generally at the mercy of the dice rolls as to whether or not you land on property that you can buy. Generally, those who own the pricier properties win the game, which makes sense, but certainly eliminates what little strategy there might have been.
Once again, one member of the family really enjoys Monopoly. The rest of us prefer a number of other games.
Rating: * * *
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