Post #3143934

2026-05-22 01:07 UTC

The reason people hate it is because they don’t follow the rules. They put tax money in the center and pretend “free parking” means “payday”. They prevent purchases until a lap or two around the board. They allow landed-on properties to go unpurchased. They allow no-rent agreements between players. And then they have the audacity to bitch that the game takes too fucking long. After removing every god damn mechanism the game has *to end*. There is strategy in knowing what to purchase, what to bid at auctions, what properties to develop and when and how much, and what to trade.

Replies (2)

@hansolo@lemmy.today 2026-05-22 01:28

100% agree. My family always played strict rules, and the game was always a painful slog. Constant mortgaging properties to afford rent somewhere else, a whole game hanging on $11 here and there. The game I played in a mobile home during power outages was about living paycheck to paycheck. The first time I saw people do the free parking tax money thing, I thought they were joking. The fuck kind of soft baby game is this? Two times around the board first? Why? Just give $600 more to start, idiots. Why not let the car roll 3 dice or some shit because a car goes faster than an iron?

Open ##3143959
@Naz@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-22 23:13

One of the canon rules is you can't skip a property sale. If a player lands on a property, they earn the right to buy it at cost, or start an auction. If they don't have the money to buy it, they can only auction. **Other players can buy the property you landed on**

Open ##3143960