> I never really played a game of Monopoly where the person who landed somewhere didn't buy whatever they could. True, but the rule would still come in handy.

> I never really played a game of Monopoly where the person who landed somewhere didn't buy whatever they could. True, but the rule would still come in handy. When my brother and I would play, he would buy everything he landed on - which meant by the second or third trip around the board, he wasn't able to afford the more expensive properties without mortgaging (which he never did). So if they had gone to auction, I could have taken them just by offering more than he had, or mortgaging my own properties.