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[ewein2412]

Last night I played the SECOND BEST GAME OF MONOPOLY EVER. Mark has made his own Chance and Community Chest cards, a la Calvin and Hobbes. Monopoly is so much better when your 9-year-old makes the Chance cards.

So, first Tim got the Kangaroo Card, which is the one that says simply, "Kangaroo kills you. YOU LOSE." It was very early in the game so we were kind to him and made him put all his money in the bank but he got to keep his property. We gave him another break when he got "Pay Electricity bill--£2000" by pointing out that since he OWNED the Electric Company he didn't actually have to pay. Meanwhile I had bought Boardwalk/Mayfair, and though I didn't have a monopoly I got the Free Hotel card, which means you can stick a hotel on anything you own, and when Tim finally landed on it he gave up (and I inherited all his property, cool).

I also got the "Sell your Cafe for £2500" card, "Advance to Go--pick up £400," AND I landed on Free Parking which had a ton of money on it in the Kitty, so plunked hotels on my only monopoly, the light blues. Poor Mark didn't stand a chance. He was hoping I'd roll triple doubles and end up in jail but I told him I'd pay to get out--what the heck, I'd just BUY THE JAIL--and then I got a Get Out of Jail Free card anyway. When I pulled "BINGO! yay you won bingo. Get best prize £2000!" Mark pointed out that I had cheated, as he was holding the invisible Time Machine Card which says that I used a time machine to find out what all the Bingo numbers were going to be and therefore I now had to give him all my hotels. This card obviously did not exist and as he then landed on my Boardwalk/Mayfair hotel and owed me £2000 anyway, we declared the game over.

It is SO much more fun to play this way. This was not my all-time best monopoly win ever, though I did end up with more than £8000. The BEST one ever was the first time we played with mark's new chance cards and I ended up owning all the property on the board with hotels on everything.

(incidentally I have also got the Kangaroo Card in the past, so I don't always get this lucky.)

Comments

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

Surrealist Monopoly! Mark is brilliant. He should print up the cards and sell them online.

[ewein2412]

the great thing about them is that, like Calvinball, THE RULES CHANGE. Sometimes he pulls cards or adds new ones.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

DUDE can your kid design cards for my monopoly game?!?! This sounds FAR superior.

[ewein2412]

I keep wondering-- why has mark not yet made us rich?

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

You should market that deck of cards...although I suspect they wouldn't let you...

[ewein2412]

i really detest copyright.

nyyaaah. i do. it comes of spending too long in academia, i think. ideas are for SHARING.

[sovay]

"Kangaroo kills you. YOU LOSE."

Yay.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

That is EPIC.

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

Haha, I might actually enjoy a game of Monopoly with those cards.

[sdn.livejournal.com]

I need to come and visit and play Monopoly. I usually loathe it, but this sounds AWESOME.

There is also a game my friend Jess knows/plays, called 1000 Blank White Cards.

[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

oh man I'd love Calvin and Hobbes monopoly! I have Wizard of Oz which is pretty enjoyable. But whoever plays with me has to deal with me quoting the movie over and over again.