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Monopoly

There was only one version, and the tokens, houses, and hotels were wooden.

There are 7 comments for this item.

Posted by Inca at 9:42 pm (PST) on Sat March 6, 2010
I had one of these. Lots of arguments over rent and hotels but fun times for sure.
Posted by Bob Wilson Jr at 6:51 am (PDT) on Wed April 21, 2010
I had a girlfriend once who claimed that her dad helped to develop this game with the actual inventor when they were at school together in Williams College in the early 1930's.
Posted by billk at 5:48 pm (PST) on Sun January 2, 2011
I still have that version with the wooden houses, and the box that was not big enough to hold the board.
Posted by paktype at 1:47 pm (PDT) on Fri June 24, 2011
Did you collect $500 for landing on Free Parking or not? We did.
Posted by SUBSURF at 5:00 pm (PDT) on Fri June 24, 2011
The way we used play was, all fines collected with the draw of a chance or community chest card went to a pot that was saved in the middle of the board. Instead of going to the bank. Then anyone that landed on free space/no parking would collect the accumulated money, sometimes nothing sometimes a few hundred dollars. Remember that both yours and my method were not in the officially sanctioned rules, and still aren't. But, it made the game more interesting, IMO
Posted by Duff at 8:28 pm (PDT) on Fri June 24, 2011
I seem to recall playing SUBSURF's way, but I'm not sure. An annual tradition at our house: my best friend, Arthur, would come over on New Year's Eve to watch TV and play Monopoly with my sister and me. We'd stay up all night playing one game of Monopoly. No ADD back in those days, apparently.
Posted by Wingslinger at 2:30 pm (PDT) on Thu March 14, 2013
Yep, all payments to the center and collect on Free Parking. Bought a British version while I was there with the Air Force. They used London streets instead of Atlantic City. Boardwalk became Mayfair. Park Place was Park Lane. It came with some blank extra Chance and Chest cards, so I wrote ridiculous things on them like "Capture Jack the Ripper" and "Bring in the head of Margaret Thatcher," and then bestow 1000 pounds. It just made it more fun, as that much of a windfall could save someone's bacon. Francis Bacon.

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