The BS rules of Monopoly

[DrPizza]

Of course, everyone buys every property they can afford.

This changes things drastically though, because if you can't afford it, you and everyone else has a chance at it for $1.

It would speed up the game tremendously.

In a 4 player game, the properties would be bought up 4x as fast. (not exactly 4x, but i'm going to do the statistics... )

You're really shooting yourself in the foot on this one. We used to play with 4 people all the time. I cannot ever recall a time where someone couldn't afford a property. That implies other rules you must not know - did you know you can mortgage a property and get half of the value of that property (provided no improvements on the property)? That means, "crap, I bought Boardwalk and now I don't have enough cash on this move" turns into "I've got $200 available." Now, you can't collect rent when someone lands on it, if it's mortgaged; and you have to pay an extra 10% back to the bank when you unmortgage it.

You start out with (I think) $1550 in cash. Baring getting screwed on chance or community chest (what's the worst that can happen toward the beginning of a game? Pay $100?) that's over $2300 for purchasing properties. If you run out of money on the first lap, you're one incredibly lucky person. During your second lap, you're likely now at having close to $2600 available (you passed go = $200, plus after mortgaging something, another 100.)

EVERY property put together costs $5690. Now, with 4 players, that's $10,400 available after everyone's made it around once. Even with everyone landing on Income Tax, and getting the 4 worst chance or community chest cards, that's still way more than enough money to purchase all the properties.

 

[diesbudt]

You're really shooting yourself in the foot on this one. We used to play with 4 people all the time. I cannot ever recall a time where someone couldn't afford a property. That implies other rules you must not know - did you know you can mortgage a property and get half of the value of that property (provided no improvements on the property)? That means, "crap, I bought Boardwalk and now I don't have enough cash on this move" turns into "I've got $200 available." Now, you can't collect rent when someone lands on it, if it's mortgaged; and you have to pay an extra 10% back to the bank when you unmortgage it.

You start out with (I think) $1550 in cash. Baring getting screwed on chance or community chest (what's the worst that can happen toward the beginning of a game? Pay $100?) that's over $2300 for purchasing properties. If you run out of money on the first lap, you're one incredibly lucky person. During your second lap, you're likely now at having close to $2600 available (you passed go = $200, plus after mortgaging something, another 100.)

EVERY property put together costs $5690. Now, with 4 players, that's $10,400 available after everyone's made it around once. Even with everyone landing on Income Tax, and getting the 4 worst chance or community chest cards, that's still way more than enough money to purchase all the properties.

You start off with $1500 in cash

2 $500
2 $100
2 $50
6 $20
5 $10
5 $5
5 $1

And yes, every time around is + $200. If you do not have the money to buy on anything you land, unless the game board literally screws you, you are playing it wrong.

You have to be aggressive, and mortgage when needed to buy another property you land on, and then unmortgage it later. The more properties you have, the more trading power you own, thus the more potential power you have of forming monopolies.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I knew all that. House rules were more fun though. We did do the auction thing when someone didn't have enough money to buy a property they landed on. Usually a player that couldn't buy something they landed on was nearly out of the game, because it was common to even mortgage property you had to buy new property if you didn't have the cash. That mean the person who couldn't buy was usually all mortgaged out AND strapped for cash.

 

[Jeffg010]

You're really shooting yourself in the foot on this one. We used to play with 4 people all the time. I cannot ever recall a time where someone couldn't afford a property. That implies other rules you must not know - did you know you can mortgage a property and get half of the value of that property (provided no improvements on the property)? That means, "crap, I bought Boardwalk and now I don't have enough cash on this move" turns into "I've got $200 available." Now, you can't collect rent when someone lands on it, if it's mortgaged; and you have to pay an extra 10% back to the bank when you unmortgage it.

You start out with (I think) $1550 in cash. Baring getting screwed on chance or community chest (what's the worst that can happen toward the beginning of a game? Pay $100?) that's over $2300 for purchasing properties. If you run out of money on the first lap, you're one incredibly lucky person. During your second lap, you're likely now at having close to $2600 available (you passed go = $200, plus after mortgaging something, another 100.)

EVERY property put together costs $5690. Now, with 4 players, that's $10,400 available after everyone's made it around once. Even with everyone landing on Income Tax, and getting the 4 worst chance or community chest cards, that's still way more than enough money to purchase all the properties.

Pretty much this always buy everything but I seen it early on where people will start mortgage their properties and never get out of that hole because the other players have a match and load up on houses and you landed on them. This is rare but has happen.The other way to lose this game is if you get no matches on any thing and other people got some might as well just quit right there.

I seen people load up on tons of properties and I had one match and knocked them out because they landed on my houses. Guess what I did after they landed on my house loaded up on hotels. If you have any free money and did not buy any house on your properties you fail. Always use your money up as soon as you can.

Getting back to BS rules like free parking money is for stupid people that can't win the game. The other BS rule that I will not play is collecting money while in jail. I had a friend who always tried to go to jail and never pay or use get out of jail card hoping that you would land on his properties and knock you out while he sat in jail. Fuck that shit.


Only time I won't buy a property is when I have one them and someone has anther that third can sit for all I care. I never do trades if I have matches to bad for you sucker.

 

[diesbudt]

Pretty much this always buy everything but I seen it early on where people will start mortgage their properties and never get out of that hole because the other players have a match and load up on houses and you landed on them. This is rare but has happen.The other way to lose this game is if you get no matches on any thing and other people got some might as well just quit right there.

I seen people load up on tons of properties and I had one match and knocked them out because they laded on my houses. Guess what I did after they landed on my house loaded up on hotels. If you have any free money and did not buy any house on your properties you fail. Always use your money up as soon as you can.

Getting back to BS rules like free parking money is for stupid people that can't win the game. The other BS rule that I will not play is collecting money while in jail. I had a friend who always tried to go to jail and never pay or use get out of jail card hoping that you would land on his properties and knock you out while he sat in jail. Fuck that shit.

Rules We usually play with

1. Maximum Penalty rule (Cannot collect money, make trades, or even talk while in Jail)

2. Free Parking (We do not put ANY money into in the beginning. A few lucky rolls and that is a lot of extra money into the system. That being said, all income tax and luxury tax along with CC and chance cards that require payment go into it instead)

3. Even build (You cannot build more than 1 more house on any property of matching color. Thus you cannot hotel 1, and leave the other blank)

4. No Auction (Do not like the auction option as the people I play with are cut throat, and will cheat and steal in the auctions to take a lead)

5. You cannot hide your money. It must be accounted for on the table (My brother was known to stash an extra $500 or so into a coat pocket or whatever so people thought he had lass money then he really did)


An interesting fact from all the games I have played and thought about.

First person to buy a Yellow property That DOESN'T get a monopoly with them, always lost first.

 

[DigDog]

Monopoly's winner is decided in the first round - by the first dice roll to determine who goes first; barring extremely unusual dice roll combinations (or ridiculous mismanagement), the first to play will win.

(i have hundreds of monopoly games under my belt .. take it as you will)