# What's your piece? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 12, 2002, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281 "2002-12-12T18:13:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [December 12, 2002, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/1 "2002-12-12T18:13:47Z")
When you play Monopoly, what’s your favorite piece? I always favored the dog, but we recently bought an “original” set that had additional pieces. Now I think I’ll be the battleship, or maybe the purse. See this for more info: [http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmonopoly.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmonopoly.html) ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/2 "2002-12-12T18:23:12Z")
I, too, am the Scotty. ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/3 "2002-12-12T18:27:28Z")
Top hat all the way, bay-bee! ---
**Author:** ![merge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@merge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merge)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/4 "2002-12-12T18:30:44Z")
I always tried to be the car… and being the younger brother, whatever I wanted is what they would not let me have… so I ended up with the shoe… what fun is a shoe… really… ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/5 "2002-12-12T18:31:27Z")
If I have to stick with those pieces, I’m the cannon. Usually, though, I’m a blue d10. ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/6 "2002-12-12T18:46:46Z")
I’m usually the wrench. I swipe it from my _Clue_ set. What? ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/7 "2002-12-12T18:54:04Z")
I like the shoe. ---
**Author:** ![greck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@greck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greck)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/8 "2002-12-12T19:21:39Z")
the shoe or the wheel barrow or the penny (if you grew up in a house full of kids, you probably lost the pieces and had to use substitutes like us) ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/9 "2002-12-12T19:28:22Z")
The set we had as a kid had the rocking horse in it. That was me. I suspect the thrift-shop set I own now is from the war period mentioned in the link because it has the wooden pawns. Booooring! I haven’t played in ages though, I just don’t have the patience (and my one-year-old won’t play with me :() bella ---
**Author:** ![lovelyluka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@lovelyluka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelyluka)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/10 "2002-12-12T19:38:29Z")
I always went for the car. It made the most sense to me, ya know? It was hard for me as a seven-year-old to conceptualize an iron walking around. Then again, it was hard for me as a seven-year-old to play monopoly, period. ---
**Author:** ![ReBusEniGma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@ReBusEniGma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReBusEniGma)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/11 "2002-12-12T19:47:07Z")
> [@](#): > > **merge** : …what fun is a shoe… really… Well…you can kick their butt with it… and besides, it gives you more sole. As for me… I like the tophat, or one of my kid’s plastic army men… ~eNiGma ---
**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:** [December 12, 2002, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/12 "2002-12-12T19:48:41Z")
As a kid I had to have the iron. Then I got the 50th anniversary edition in 1985. It had a train piece. Since then, that’s the one I play with. If I’m playing on a set without it, it’s back to the iron then. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/13 "2002-12-12T19:49:25Z")
I thought this was a gun thread! (Walther PPK) But it’s a Monopoly thread. Top Hat. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/14 "2002-12-12T19:55:26Z")
My favorite piece is a Beretta 96 Brigadier .40, …monopoly oh that would be the tophat. unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/15 "2002-12-12T20:05:11Z")
The shoe…always the shoe. I have had extremely large feet for most of my life, so I guess I like the novelty of a _tiny_ shoe. \ ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/16 "2002-12-12T21:38:55Z")
I’m the car - it made sense to me as a kid to go as fast as possible around the board. Just keep collecting that $200! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/17 "2002-12-12T21:44:07Z")
AAAAAAAGHHH!!! My Monopoly set had the wooden pieces!!! And now I don’t know where it is! I had no idea my Monopoly was a part of the war effort. My game helped kick Hitler’s ass and now I don’t know where it is. Is that set worth anything to collectors of games, or WWII memorabilia, or anything? [sub]please say no please say no please say no[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![iconoplast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3d9bf3/32.png) [@iconoplast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iconoplast)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/18 "2002-12-13T00:47:09Z")
Blinky. Or Kang. Of course, all I have is the Simpsons Monopoly set. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/19 "2002-12-13T01:17:41Z")
My old set had a battleship which I always liked to play. Also had a “Go back to Old Kent Road” (UK version) which doesn’t seem to exist in newer sets. > [@](#): > > What is a Monopoly 🙂 Cheers, Keithy ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281/20 "2002-12-13T02:25:18Z")
The Scotty dog. Or the revolver from the Clue game. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-piece/142281.md?page=2)