Considering the game was actually invented with the goal of demonstrating the evils of capitalism and the [ill effects of land monopolism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Magie#The_Landlord's_Game), I feel like your graph shows that the mission was accomplished.
If you play the game with the rules as written a four-player game tales about two hours, sometimes less.
People decide they’re going to implement all these house rules, like if you land on free parking you get extra money, or if you land directly on Go you get extra money, if you land on income tax you just ignore it because it has math involved, which is the same thing as getting extra money, and on and on, to make it more fun. Then, consequently, no one ever runs out of money, and the game lasts forever and people say it isn’t fun.
Just play it with the rules as written, including the auction rules, and it will be much more fun.
That’s because it was designed to illustrate the unfair and exploitative nature of capitalism, it wasn’t designed to be fun. It’s an objectively unfair game.
If you follow the rules as written Monopoly plays out in 2 hrs. The game is still about crushing your opponent, but it doesn’t take as long as people say.
Monopoly teaches you that their are two types of people in the world: 1) those that believe the rules dictate what you can do and 2) those the believe you can do anything that isn’t specifically forbidden.
As kids, my friends and I all grew up loving the game but no one ever wanted to play with us. Fast forward to adulthood and we turned it into the ultimate drinking game. No money. Beer is your money. All costs are converted into seconds of drinking (divide costs in half and drop a zero to get seconds of drinking, 5 sec min.) You can only “buy” one house per turn. Pass Go? Give out seconds. Pay rent? Drink up. Must finish your “payment” before your next turn. Can’t do it? You lose. Game goes as long as it can, haha. Great times!
I flat out refuse to play monopoly. The dice absolutely hate me and it doesn’t matter what strategy or plan I follow, I always get screwed over somehow.
Monopoly is a garbage board game, even if you play by the rules, which no one does. It’s honestly detrimental to the board game industry that so many only play this one ridiculously bad game that sours them on board games as a concept
And all house rules do is prolong the game instead of cutting it short, which would allow for more games and less of the endless boring hours of slowly and inevitably bleeding out your money, then your income sources. Absolute worst mechanics ever.
EDIT: Man it took me a while to understand that this is just 7 different graphs superimposed on each other. -1 point but it’s all good since the assignment is worth 100 points.
Strategy is buy as many houses as you can and do not convert to hotels. Eventually there won’t be enough homes and no matter what you don’t allow ” I’ll just use the hotel as a house, since there are not enough” it’s the proper way to play, eventually everyone that doesn’t have homes runs out of money and you win.
So I decided to play strictly by the book and be totally cutthroat about it. Just to see what playing that way was like. I wanted to see if it shortened the game (it does, a lot).
I warned my family in advance. I explained my reasoning. I was very clear this was a one time test.
The game was over in a couple hours… No one had fun and no one wants to play with me again.
Just a friendly reminder that there are some genuinely amazing board games out there beyond the usual tripe of Monopoly. Don’t let this game put you off the wider world there is out there, full of themes, difficulty levels, and mechanics for every kind of person!
Monopoly isn’t meant to be fun, it’s meant to be an indictment of capitalism.
Monopoly by the actual rules is usually a pretty brief, brutal, one-sided ass kicking. The only reason games last more than like 20 minutes is because people make up their own rules.
I love monopoly. I always win but noone ever wants to play it for these reasons
Considering the game was actually invented with the goal of demonstrating the evils of capitalism and the [ill effects of land monopolism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Magie#The_Landlord's_Game), I feel like your graph shows that the mission was accomplished.
Even though I won the last time I played, I have forbidden this game from ever existing in my household.
The game doesn’t take forever if you don’t implement like 20 house rules that keep people in the game when they should have lost.
stop putting money on free parking
that’s not in the rules and it lengthens the game by ten times
If you play the game with the rules as written a four-player game tales about two hours, sometimes less.
People decide they’re going to implement all these house rules, like if you land on free parking you get extra money, or if you land directly on Go you get extra money, if you land on income tax you just ignore it because it has math involved, which is the same thing as getting extra money, and on and on, to make it more fun. Then, consequently, no one ever runs out of money, and the game lasts forever and people say it isn’t fun.
Just play it with the rules as written, including the auction rules, and it will be much more fun.
“There’s no way I can win, I give up”
“No you can’t give up you still have a chance”
*2 hours later*
“I won who would have guessed”
“yeah fuck this”
As a colorblind person, this chart destroys me mentally
[The problem with Monopoly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzSVRxEc6XE)
I actually developed a strategy to winning monopoly and I have never lost. Nobody will play with me anymore tho.
36 hours for monopoly? I’m starting to see the problem
Replace all the chance and community chest cards with GO TO JAIL and the game ends quickly.
That’s because it was designed to illustrate the unfair and exploitative nature of capitalism, it wasn’t designed to be fun. It’s an objectively unfair game.
***THIRTY SIX HOURS?!***
No, nononono. Try two or three.
I don’t know who has the leisure time and mental capacity to play for *thirty-six hours*, let alone a board game like *Monopoly*.
If you follow the rules as written Monopoly plays out in 2 hrs. The game is still about crushing your opponent, but it doesn’t take as long as people say.
I thought this was suppose to be monopoly not life.
Monopoly teaches you that their are two types of people in the world: 1) those that believe the rules dictate what you can do and 2) those the believe you can do anything that isn’t specifically forbidden.
As kids, my friends and I all grew up loving the game but no one ever wanted to play with us. Fast forward to adulthood and we turned it into the ultimate drinking game. No money. Beer is your money. All costs are converted into seconds of drinking (divide costs in half and drop a zero to get seconds of drinking, 5 sec min.) You can only “buy” one house per turn. Pass Go? Give out seconds. Pay rent? Drink up. Must finish your “payment” before your next turn. Can’t do it? You lose. Game goes as long as it can, haha. Great times!
Monopoly is trash.
I prefer games like Le Harve, Caylus, Agricola, and such.
I flat out refuse to play monopoly. The dice absolutely hate me and it doesn’t matter what strategy or plan I follow, I always get screwed over somehow.
Monopoly is a garbage board game, even if you play by the rules, which no one does. It’s honestly detrimental to the board game industry that so many only play this one ridiculously bad game that sours them on board games as a concept
And all house rules do is prolong the game instead of cutting it short, which would allow for more games and less of the endless boring hours of slowly and inevitably bleeding out your money, then your income sources. Absolute worst mechanics ever.
What even is the Y axis? Enjoyment?
EDIT: Man it took me a while to understand that this is just 7 different graphs superimposed on each other. -1 point but it’s all good since the assignment is worth 100 points.
Strategy is buy as many houses as you can and do not convert to hotels. Eventually there won’t be enough homes and no matter what you don’t allow ” I’ll just use the hotel as a house, since there are not enough” it’s the proper way to play, eventually everyone that doesn’t have homes runs out of money and you win.
So I decided to play strictly by the book and be totally cutthroat about it. Just to see what playing that way was like. I wanted to see if it shortened the game (it does, a lot).
I warned my family in advance. I explained my reasoning. I was very clear this was a one time test.
The game was over in a couple hours… No one had fun and no one wants to play with me again.
I definitely flipped a table over monopoly as a child
Just a friendly reminder that there are some genuinely amazing board games out there beyond the usual tripe of Monopoly. Don’t let this game put you off the wider world there is out there, full of themes, difficulty levels, and mechanics for every kind of person!
Monopoly isn’t meant to be fun, it’s meant to be an indictment of capitalism.
Monopoly by the actual rules is usually a pretty brief, brutal, one-sided ass kicking. The only reason games last more than like 20 minutes is because people make up their own rules.