Tue, 22 Aug 2006

Game on.
There are few board ['bored'] games we play regularly at our house. Several of us like the idea of Monopoly, but we've never really got up enough steam to actually play the game to its bitter and glorious conclusion. At least not via the official rulebook. Over the years, we've refined our local rules to a much abridged game that we call "Start Monopoly". To play "Start Monopoly", we randomly deal out all the properties beforehand and have a vigorous round of trading wherein each player tries to maximize holdings according to their preferred metric. Then, at the first turn each player buys housing for any monopolies as desired. Usually, the clear winner is pretty well determined by the 3rd or 4th turn, at which point, we call it done and move on to other activities. "Start Monopoly" typically takes about thirty minutes to play.

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