Pssst. Trapeze act. 
…But what if we want to play the classic game without the speed die?
As I said, I made a mistake. The speed die comes in a seperate version of the game.
Is that one discontinued, too?
Are you joking with me or something? If you look at the official website, you will see that there are a number of Monopoly games, including the classic version, the speed die version, and the Electronic Banking version. Because of the different sets (as well as the licensed sets), the slogan Hasbro uses to advertise the game is “How do you play Monopoly?”
Yes.
What can I say? Thimbles and old shoes get me excited.
In some booklets it’s an option rule. But it’s a bad rule, it adds too much randomness, rewards bad playing and makes the game longer.
You’re wrong. So very, very wrong.
All of you complaining about how dull Monopoly is, or how long it takes, are just playing it wrong - and I’m not talking about the rules. Monopoly is a very human game, and it’s all about sellin’ the deal. If you wait until half the properties on the board are bought from the bank before you start dealin’, you’re doin’ it wrong. If properties aren’t ever exchanged while there’s still one or more of that color left in the bank, you’re doin’ it wrong. If you’ve ever responded to a trade offer with “let’s wait a few turns and see what happens”, you’re probably doin’ it wrong - you’re not playin’ Monopoly, the dice are playin’ you.
Monopoly’s one biggest flaw is that just one player who doesn’t know the right way to play can gum up the works, and cause the game to turn to luck of the roll over skill.
No one I have ever played Monopoly with has ever wanted to auction. No one ever wants to trade until almost everything’s been bought.
And I’m betting that’s the case in 99.99% of Monopoly games ever played.
Roll dice, move counter, buy property, pay rent. That’s all the complexity most people can handle from a board game. 'Tis a sad, sad thing.
But not having to think is the whole point of Monopoly. I’m with Diomedes: I want to roll the dice, BUYBUYBUY everything that I land on, cackle evilly whenever somebody lands on my cheap-o light blue property with the ritzy hotel, generously offer broke players cheap deals on their fancy-schmancy streets and feel like I’ve won the lottery when I land on “Free Parking” (official rules? what official rules?). It’s all about landlording it over the other players.
And I think having actual money adds to that experience - looking out over huge stacks of cash is much more satisfying than just having the knowledge that your measly-looking card contains the equivalent of a pile of money.
I haven’t read the whole thread, so apologies if this has been covered already, but I’ll miss the traditional Monopoly with the piles of hard cash and such. I suppose I can always look out on eBay for a copy.
Sigh…Monopoly isn’t dead, etc., etc. See my shouting on page 1 and the Hasbro link.
mobo, relax! We’re poking fun at you…stop being such killjoy.
You say it’s not dead. But I say… add in credit cards and take out the cash… well, it’s dead to me!
::d&r::
What!
Just saw the pit thread and linked here.
I can’t believe they’re discontinuing the game. I didn’t really like to play it, but dang! It was part of my childhood.
Classic Monopoly is not being discontinued.
Amen, amen, amen. What a shame that the game’s being discontinued!
As a direct lineal descendant of the least famous Parker brother, it is with a heavy heart that I bid a nostalgiaic farewell to that most cherished of American icons, Monopoly. My great-great-grandfather had the distinct honor of participating in the very first game of Monopoly ever played; and I am certain that he would be astounded to learn that the same game is still being played today, with its surviving members preserved in deep cryogenic suspension.
Certainly its creators never anticipated that the game itself, a barely disguised rallying cry for socialist revolution, would instead be embraced as a wholesome and educational pastime that would eventually surpass goldfish-wrestling, telephone booth-swallowing, and Prussian-waxing to become the seventeenth most universally reviled form of entertainment, after Canada.
Who among us has not whiled away the carefree hours over the game board with our friends and relatives, until at last all bonds of human affection have been eroded away? Who among us has not forced our younger siblings to eat the game pieces one by one? To one degree or another, Monopoly has touched us all, even if only through the absence of the microscopic Scottie dogs that once roamed the Eastern seaboard before ruthless exploitation to satisfy the demand for electroplated game tokens drove them to extinction.
Yes, though Monopoly may fade into the sunset, its legacy endures in the countless games that have been abandoned amid curses and shattered friendships over the years. For in these wasted hours in worthless pursuit of nothing in particular, we see something of the nature of humanity itself. Perhaps one day science will at last achieve the elusive Monopole, that magical particle whose acquisition should have been the goal of the game if that part of the original rules hadn’t accidentally been left out.
In closing, I wish to express my sincere hopes that each of you, at some point in your lives, find yourself in the position to advance to the nearest utility. As Great-great-grandfather often remarked at such times: “It’s all good, my bitches.”
Yrs. in sympathy and affection,
T. Gummo Parker IV
Of course it’s not dead. But taking the money out of the game is going to kill it eventually.