I've played monopoly strictly by the rules and it ends up being equally terrible as any house rules imo. Perhaps even worse, once you get someone who drops in

I've played monopoly strictly by the rules and it ends up being equally terrible as any house rules imo. Perhaps even worse, once you get someone who drops in with the hyper optimized bleed-everyone-to-death-with-no-hotels strategy. (Or worse, 2+ people with this strategy, because they it becomes a neverending game of trying to block all monopolies) I'll agree though, playing without the auction rule is super slow and boring. Maybe stock rules with infinite houses, I haven't tried that before.