# What's your Monopoly piece?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-monopoly-piece/290479>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 17, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-monopoly-piece/290479 "2005-02-17T03:56:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-monopoly-piece/290479/41 "2005-02-17T23:56:28Z")

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first off, i would like to say that I had the monopoly game for my nintendo as a kid and can the confirm that the top hat does, in fact, move. The secret? a rabbit underneath!! the legs and hopping were clearly visible on the screen.

Secondly, i often played the actual board game and will snap up the dog before the box is even opened. if i am somehow incapacitated, i will however, accept the battleship as a second choice. if you cant con your opponents by being cute, its time to bring out the big guns.

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**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-monopoly-piece/290479/42 "2005-02-18T02:35:24Z")

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shoe or iron.

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**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-monopoly-piece/290479/43 "2005-02-18T02:43:06Z")

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Hat. Always the hat. It gets around fine if you draw a face on your little finger, and have your hat-wearing finger do a funky strut around the board.

My turn always takes a very long time.

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**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-monopoly-piece/290479/44 "2005-02-18T02:50:02Z")

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I’ve lost all but three of the original pieces. The hat, car and horse. Because of this we improvise with pennies, little plastic action figures, rocks, etc. I don’t have any regular piece that I use every time, but my dad is always the top hat.

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**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-monopoly-piece/290479/45 "2005-02-18T03:29:32Z")

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what is this battleship you speak of? wheelbarrow? HA! Car, Dog, Hat, Thimble, Iron, Shoe. no men on horses or nonsense. and i’m banker. i called it, dammit.

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