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Everybody remembers the
monopoly game - that's why it's still the most popular, most widely played, and best-selling board game in the world! Across the generations and around the globe, what other game brings back so many memories of wheeling-and-dealing family fun' No other game has turned so many game playing moments into memories! Whether you're discovering the fun for the first time or reliving the carefree days of youth, get out there and Buy! Sell! Mortgage! Build houses and hotels! And collect those rents! That's what makes
monopoly the great American game - just ask Rich Uncle Pennybags! For 2 to 8 players. Game includes: game board, 10 tokens, title deed cards, play money, chance cards, community chest cards, 32 houses, 12 hotels and two dice.
This is the original version of monopoly.
Although house and hotels are plastic, the board game is solid and so are the cards and money.
Very highly recommended
This is a fun game with reminders of my childhood included. It's nice to have a family game without electronics or new rules to learn, which so many of the games I grew up with have these days. Monopoly still teaches counting and money management skills! There is a new twist - the speed die, but it's optional. The speed die helps you move the game along quicker in case you don't have a full day to spend at the game table.
I own and have spent hundreds of hours playing this classic board game. It is loads of fun and great to play with your friends or at family gatherings.
I bought this for a little girl of 12 years old. She requested this game.I am glad that some kids today still likes board games.It brought back memories for me growing up in th 60's.
This toy is a classic that you will never get board of! The game will probably outlast any others. It's very educational also!
Who would have guessed that the street names of a small and seedy New Jersey town wouldn't be the basis for a fascinating and fun game? Surprisingly, Monopoly turned out to be a game that (1) was incredibly long; (2) involved slow, grinding failure for those who were losing; (3) involved almost no skill but also (4) none of the excitement of chance. As far as I can tell, the only joy people get out of it comes from handling play money.
In many board games one goes round and round. But generally there is the sense one is going SOMEWHERE. In Monopoly--more true to life--there is nowhere to go. Just keep working and paying the man. If one is attracted to the idea that repetition can be the highest ethical moment, one only needs to play this game to be quickly disabused. In contrast to, say, Mousetrap [see my review] which highlights the nature of irreversible transitions, in Monopoly one orbits around a gaping hole of debt, slowly circling inwards towards failure.
This is also, unfortunately, one of those games that children always think will be fun. But for some reason it is incredibly unpleasant to lose at monopoly. In chess, you die an honorable death. In Monopoly you are slowly sucked dry by other, increasingly hateful, players.
The funny thing is, apparently Monopoly was actually invented (not by the goofball who gave it the street names) precisely to demonstrate the theories of the great American radical economic theorist Henry George. George argued that the cause of human misery was private ownership of land, an ethical monstrosity in itself. The game shows that when we allow people to own property, then even if all start out equal and are equally industrious, things can only end in the most extreme inequality.
That was NOT supposed to be enjoyable. It is a testament to the perversity of the American economic and judicial system that we turned this cautionary tale into a game in which the goal is to "win" by sapping everything from everyone else. This is simply a horrible game: I don't understand why there aren't analogue games like "ethnic cleansing" or "slum clearance." [24]
Never get too old for this game....must have for every kid, no matter the age. I enjoy playing it with my granddaughter as much as I did playing it when I was a child with my brothers and sisters.
Monopoly is an excellent game for almost all ages (eight years and up). The object of the game is to use your money and income to buy properties, railroads and more--and then charge rent to the other players when their tokens (playing pieces) land on them. Players simply roll the dice to see how many steps ahead they have to move their token; and the game can go on for hours and hours if the players are savvy enough and have the right experience playing the game.
I agree with many reviewers when they note that part of the fun of Monopoly is that you can make up a few of your own rules as you go along. You can get more than $200 for passing the "go" space, for example. You can trade properties, print your own extra money if you need more money and of course Monopoly official rules let you mortgage properties so that you can buy even more real estate. The game also comes with a special set of rules for a shortened version of the game.
The real estate starts relatively inexpensively and get more and more expensive as you and the other players go around the board. This helps to make the game exciting.
This game has another clear advantage: it teaches children how to count their money (counting skills) and it also helps to teach children how money is used in real life. Very young players just starting out should play this game with an older relative or a parent who can explain the rules to them.
Overall, I predict that Monopoly will be around for ages to come. There are many different editions of the classic Monopoly game. The newer versions of Monopoly have all been designed in the last twenty years or so--thus the game's popularity is very high.
I recommend this awesome game for ages eight and up.
Great game that i hadn't played in 25 years. We had a game night last wek and my seven yeare old loved to play also. Its a good way to teach a child his age counting money and different denomonations.
This is the same game I remember playing as a child. Still the metal pieces and the play money and cards haven't changed either. The only thing that is different to me is the way the board has a "cut" in it and folds into fourths. Otherwise this is the same basic game. There are other versions out there that change the material the playing pieces are made of, or that change the theme of the board. Now there's one that even has an electronic banking system. I prefer to let my children get experience handling money and counting/subtracting with the play money. We opted for the "original" version and we've had many fun family nights playing.
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About Monopoly detail
- Amazon Sales Rank: #381 in Toys & Games
- Brand: Hasbro
- Model: 00009 97
- Dimensions: 15.80" h x 10.60" w x 2.10" l, 2.25 pounds
Features
- Classic family board game
- A game of luck, chance, and savvy wheeling and dealing
- Buy and sell properties in Atlantic City
- Corner parts of the board, build houses and hotels, and charge other players exorbitant rent
- Includes a new game piece and rules for a shortened version of the game
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