It can be a straight up ruthless experience if you play it by the rules as written rather than adding shitty house rules. I love playing with other adults that know how to play.
What's fascinating is that some of those house rules seemed to have come up independently in places all around the world. For example, the stupid free parking jackpot. (I assume that Hasbro added it to the manual as a house rule at some point?)
And yeah, getting money and property is fun! But the game is supposed to be a 30-45 minute experience.
The reason is probably because Monopoly as written is short and brutal. Which isn't fun for families. So people add rules to make more fair. Which has result of making it last longer and turn into slog.
The solution is for families other games which are better suited especially for younger kids. But Monopoly has established itself as universal family board game.
It's mostly that the rules are propagated by hearsay from 10 yo:s.
If you don't add all the house rules all kids use to prolong the game, it is quite playable.
For some reason alot of kids love it. I think handling money is the main lure.
It can be a straight up ruthless experience if you play it by the rules as written rather than adding shitty house rules. I love playing with other adults that know how to play.
What's fascinating is that some of those house rules seemed to have come up independently in places all around the world. For example, the stupid free parking jackpot. (I assume that Hasbro added it to the manual as a house rule at some point?)
And yeah, getting money and property is fun! But the game is supposed to be a 30-45 minute experience.
The reason is probably because Monopoly as written is short and brutal. Which isn't fun for families. So people add rules to make more fair. Which has result of making it last longer and turn into slog.
The solution is for families other games which are better suited especially for younger kids. But Monopoly has established itself as universal family board game.
I think Monopoly is very fun, and I think the vocal haters online are obnoxious as hell. It's snobbery, but for board game nerds.
I think Monopoly is awful, and I think the vocal minority of people who like it are obnoxious as hell.