Entertainment & Sports: July 2011 Archives
Monopoly is much more fun if you play by the actual rules in the rule book and auction off properties that players land on but don't buy.
Have you ever played Monopoly?Of course you have. Everyone's played it at some time in their life. It's shared culture, a common element that weaves together our modern world.
But when was the last time you played it?
You can't remember, can you? We've all played it sometime, when we were kids; but never recently, and why?
Because it's crap. It takes ages to play, suffering long action-free periods in which the players endlessly circle the board in search of the streets they need to complete a set, and lacks the interaction between players that we look for in a game. In short, it's boring and lacks skill.
Except that it isn't crap. Actually. You just have to play it the way it was designed to be played.
Monopoly is an auction strategy game, and when you take the auctions out the game is very boring.
