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Decent article, except for lumping the excellent board game of Scrabble with Monopoly
by cdelsolar 9y ago
Decent article, except for lumping the excellent board game of Scrabble with Monopoly
- jackaroe78 9y agoI never land on Boardwalk or Park Place either
- TylerE 9y agoMonopoly is a perfectly fine game. The problem is no one bothers to actually play it by the rules (auctions, no dumb house rules like fines go to free parking).
- yesenadam 9y agoI don't think that's the problem! It's (as noted in many online articles) the last 2/3 of every game is the richest person getting more and more so, until too long later they win. Kind of a drag for everyone else. (p.s. I play it by the rules.)
- tim333 9y agoThat was kind of by design to illustrate the evils of capitalism and advocate for a land value tax. Bit of a pity it didn't work. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Magie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Magie)
- michaelt 9y agoI think what TylerE means is: A well-known criticism of the game is it goes on too long after the winner is already clear - and though _part_ of that is the game's design, _part_ of it is house rules that make the game take longer, like not auctioning properties and putting fines on free parking.
- once_inc 9y agoMonopoly is in its core a flawed game, because it was created as criticism against capitalism. The 'cutt-throat' way to play it is buying 4 houses on your streets, but not getting a hotel. Since there is a limited supply of houses, you prevent other players from getting better, then win by attrition. The title of the game is about getting a monopoly on houses.
- rubinelli 9y agoThere are better games to play, though. Machi Koro is a card game with a similar theme and mechanics, but it removes player elimination and ends much faster.
- erispoe 9y agoScrabble, at a top level, is a game of memorizing as many words and combinations as you can. Some top players in english don't even speak english very well. That's a pure memory game.