# What Monopoly piece MUST you be? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 7, 2002, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818 "2002-06-07T12:05:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/1 "2002-06-07T12:05:15Z")
Inspired by todays SD column regarding the pieces from the game. (I would link to it, but everyone here, of course, has read it already!!) Me? I HAD to be the car or I wouldn’t play. If you even joked that I had to be the wheelbarrow I’d be quite likely to flip the board, scattering play money and various houses/hotels about the room! You? ---
**Author:** ![tsarina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@tsarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsarina)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/2 "2002-06-07T12:07:11Z")
I have to be the scottie dog, preferably riding around in the car. With perfect balance and precision, it _can_ be finagled. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/3 "2002-06-07T12:15:15Z")
In college, we lost most of the pieces and had to substitute our own. I was always the Heineken beer cap. ---
**Author:** ![Efrem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@Efrem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Efrem)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/4 "2002-06-07T13:13:21Z")
I had to be rolling in the car, buying up streets. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/5 "2002-06-07T13:30:45Z")
I was the little shoe. It was so cute and easy to move around. Tried playing as the dog once and it didn’t feel the same. ---
**Author:** ![Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knighted_Vorpal_Sword)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/6 "2002-06-07T13:38:43Z")
I was always the scottie dog or the thimble. It’s bad luck to be the shoe or the battleship. ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/7 "2002-06-07T13:42:44Z")
I always had to be the iron. That was until we got the 35th anniversary edition (about 20 years ago) which had a train piece. Now I’m always the train. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![girl27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ad7895/32.png) [@girl27](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/girl27)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/8 "2002-06-07T13:47:16Z")
I had to be the Scottie Dog… So he could pee on other players. I was 11. :o ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/9 "2002-06-07T13:54:00Z")
I always had an unholy fascination with the thimble. Yup, the same child who ate dirt like the cats and wanted to be a fire engine when he grew up. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/10 "2002-06-07T14:26:21Z")
I always WANTED the shoe. If I couldn’t be the shoe, the battleship or the horse & rider suited me fine. In a pinch, I’d grudgingly SETTLE for the car or cannon. But NEVER the iron, hat, thimble or dog! ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/11 "2002-06-07T14:39:14Z")
::Pouts:: If’n I can’t be the doggie, I’m takin’ my game and goin’ home. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Oak\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Oak\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oak_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/12 "2002-06-07T14:50:41Z")
The BOOT! On my board, it’s not a shoe . . . it’s a manly BOOT! ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/13 "2002-06-07T16:08:32Z")
The dog. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/14 "2002-06-07T17:18:43Z")
Have to be the iron. Won’t play otherwise! ---
**Author:** ![QueenAl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/d26b3c/32.png) [@QueenAl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QueenAl)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/15 "2002-06-07T17:57:10Z")
The cute little Scottie Dog, of course! ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/16 "2002-06-07T18:46:37Z")
The hat. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/17 "2002-06-07T23:49:10Z")
I was scorched the last time this question was asked because I collect Monopoly games and pieces. Last time I played I used my '57 Chevy Monopoly piece. ---
**Author:** ![Regina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@Regina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regina)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/18 "2002-06-07T23:53:18Z")
My older sister always had to be the dog. I would be the iron and when I landed on her hotels (which were on every property except the purples) I could fit the hotel over me. We had two games’ worth of money and she would have all the five hundreds and hundreds and every now and then she’d go “It’s Christmas!” and throw ones and fives around for me to scramble around and pick up . . . Issues? What issues? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/19 "2002-06-08T00:07:31Z")
The Scottie. Until I met my wife, who just HAD to be the Scottie. I always liked having him balance on his front paws and nose. ---
**Author:** ![Dieter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dieter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dieter)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818/20 "2002-06-08T00:25:05Z")
I have to say my Monopoly board is so old it doesn’t have the peices you guys are talking about. Mine is a small game box, black, about 9 inches square, one inch tall. The game board is seperate. Inside is tiny money, wood hotels and houses, dice and the cards. The playing pieces are made of wood. They look similer to pull handles on drawers, but each with their own design. I always have to be the purple one. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-monopoly-piece-must-you-be/112818.md?page=2)