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Also ... the history of the game monopoly was supposed to be an education to teach people about the terrible idea of 'monopolies' in general
It was intended as an educational tool to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)
Everyone thinks of it as cute fun game ... when it reality, we've all been conditioned to think of the idea of monopolies as a benign thing in society that isn't a problem.
Nobody thinks it’s fun.
Wow that game is so infuriating. Anyhow back to work.
I don’t know anyone who thinks of monopolies as a good or benign thing, they’re usually brought up in the context of the harm they’re causing (ISPs, sysco) or as something to avoid in the case of a pending merger/acquisition
It was ~~made~~ (edit;: manufactured) by the same company that made Ouija boards.
No the original "monopoly" was known as Landlord's Game which was the educational game. If anything it would be a better statement to say the company that made the ouiji board also copy/stole the game Landlord to make Monopoly. This company being Hasbro.
Fuck Hasbro
In late game it’s actually better to stay in jail as much as possible
On the other hand, when you need to go to prison, you can just pay to be freed instantly and many house rules dictate that taxes and such are not paid to the bank but collected in the middle and hitting "free parking" get you all this money back. So... Tax evasion and collection of subventions is also covered.
That damn house rule is why Monopoly takes like 5 hours to play.
Wait until you can als get credits from other players…
Best way to win/get hated a Monopoly: BE a monopoly. Get streets of the same color. Build houses. Build more houses. DO NOT, NEVER EVER upgrade to hotels, focus on building as many houses as you can.
Many people forget: No one can force you to upgrade to hotels and return your houses to the pool. If no more houses are available in the box, no houses can be built. To build a hotel, you must build 4 houses before - but those houses need to be build. Don’t just pay everything in one go, skip the (unavailable) houses and build a hotel. No - if you cannot get 4 houses down, you cannot get a hotel.
If people don’t realize what you’re doing, they’ll be in great trouble soon…
Also helpful to collect colors and oftentimes overlooked: If someone hits a street that is available, they must buy it. If they don’t, it will instantly trigger an auction where every player can bid. This works both ways - forcing players with little money to lose this opportunity, as well as getting things cheaper if you trigger it yourself and no one wants to/can bid against you
You're not wrong as far as the rules, but who hurt you?
Probably everyone who's made them sit through interminable games using house rules. Never again, if we're playing we're playing by the book.
Those are the book rules and they make the game insuffferable if used right.
It was a well known copypasta that was posted a looooot on 4chan and reddit. He's pulling from it to put it into lemmy terms.
Ah so.
Also, it's boring as shit