# Monopoly is going cashless?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-is-going-cashless/422636 "2007-10-14T02:24:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![rhythmonly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rhythmonly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhythmonly)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-is-going-cashless/422636/61 "2007-10-16T20:50:51Z")
Those bastards! They’ve killed Monopoly! ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-is-going-cashless/422636/62 "2007-10-16T21:13:32Z")
So you’re saying it’s dead? ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-is-going-cashless/422636/63 "2007-10-16T22:33:23Z")
Not dead, just discontinued. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-is-going-cashless/422636/64 "2007-10-16T22:57:22Z")
It’s not dead. It’s just pining for the fjords. The doggie. I was always the doggie. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-is-going-cashless/422636/65 "2007-10-17T04:58:14Z")
No, it’s restin’. All that cash… lovely plumage. ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-is-going-cashless/422636/66 "2007-10-17T07:35:25Z")
Man, it’s a shame. All those memories of classic Monopoly money, now consigned to the dustbin of history. I guess my old copies of the game will become collector’s items once that line is discontinued. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-is-going-cashless/422636/67 "2007-10-17T12:41:13Z")
[QUOTE=Indistinguishable] Man, it’s a shame. All those memories of classic Monopoly money, now consigned to the dustbin of history. I guess my old copies of the game will become collector’s items once that line is discontinued. [/QUOTE] Absolutely, you better buy them up now before it becomes impossible to find one of the 100 million copies in existence… I heard that the real reason that they’ve discontinued the real Monopoly is that Monopoly and Anti-Monopoly collided and caused a capitalism-Marxism explosion. All the cash was destroyed so… ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_Lurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_Lurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_Lurker)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-is-going-cashless/422636/68 "2007-10-17T15:43:37Z")
Anyone know if it’s still possible to find a classic version of Monopoly? You know, with the paper cash? ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@Mike\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Fun)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-is-going-cashless/422636/69 "2007-10-17T15:50:22Z")
Why is mobo86 spreading rumors that Monopoly is being discontinued? It’s not! What gives? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-is-going-cashless/422636/70 "2007-10-17T16:31:41Z")
[QUOTE=Mike Fun] Why is mobo86 spreading rumors that Monopoly is being discontinued? It’s not! What gives? [/QUOTE] OMFG!!!111!!! Monopoly is being DISCONTINUED!!!111!!! The next thing you will tell us is that Scrabble has added more Q and Z tiles. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-is-going-cashless/422636/71 "2007-10-17T17:00:55Z")
No they have simply removed them… No one uses Z or Q in any words. Unless they want to fianlly accept the there are such words as RULZ and Quizblorg ---
**Author:** ![Sanity\_Challenged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Sanity\_Challenged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sanity_Challenged)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-is-going-cashless/422636/72 "2007-10-17T18:01:58Z")
Does anyone have the address where we’re supposed to send our existing Monopoly money in exchange for the new electronic doodad? I certainly don’t want the embarrassment of being caught with an illegal board the next time some friends want to play a game. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-is-going-cashless/422636/73 "2007-10-17T19:48:08Z")
I heard the NSA is already gathering the names, addresses, SSNs and DNA profiles of everyone hoarding Monopoly cash in violation of the Monopoly Demonetarization Act of 2007. So watch out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-is-going-cashless/422636.md?page=3)