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I refuse to play monopoly because it’s a horrible game.
by zeroonetwothree 4y ago
I refuse to play monopoly because it’s a horrible game.
- lukifer 4y agoIt was literally designed to be a horrible game: it was originally a teaching tool for Georgist economics, attempting to illustrate that rent extraction made one player rich and everyone else broke. Then you're supposed to flip over the board and play "Prosperity", the alternative economic system in which all players prosper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Monopoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Monopoly
- tralarpa 4y agoAnd many older people don't like boardgames because it is the only one they know. Fortunately, game designers like Teubner (Catan) knew how to make fun games.
- kqr 4y agoWhat have you tried to do to make it more interesting? I find that when a group wants to play a game I don't like, it's significantly easier to swap in some fun house rules than swap out the entire game.