Posted on 11/29/2012 11:02:43 AM PST by The Looking Spoon
When someone gets hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place, they should be taxed at 100%. And the money given to the folks on Baltic and Mediterranean Avenues.
I hope my communist friends don’t find out that I played this capitalistic game.
Cute idea, but I think it could be better.
New quotations:
“House rule folks, anyone who has hotels on Boardwalk will have to pay for housing on Mediterranean and Baltic Avenues.”
“We use these special dice for the first turn of the game. All the sides have two on them, which guarantees that you land on “Income Tax” on your first roll!”
“Four times the dice roll for Electric Company?! In the new Fairness Edition, that price will necessarily skyrocket to 40 times the dice roll.”
“New feature: all Community Chest cards require the player to pay INTO the Community Chest.”
“Bankruptcy by landing on a developed property is now rare. However, drawing the new and improved you are accessed for street repairs will now cost $1 Trillion.”
“Landing on the railroads is now mandatory. The race car token is outlawed.”
“Half of the Chance Cards send you to Luxury Tax.”
“The Pay Doctor’s Fee card can be ignored by women of child-bearing age who state they are only getting contraception.”
He had to get one at a garage sale to be able to play and have to make sense to the kids.
I hate that I was looking forward to sharing it with the and had to take a double take on the stupid PC rules.
1. Reduce the number of colors of properties from 8 to 2 (Red and Blue). Eight groups of 2-3 properties facilitates suburban sprawl. Two groups of properties concentrates the homes into a denser infrastructure and eliminates competition amongst landowners.
2. Replace houses with apartments. Houses require mortgages, which are unfair barriers to ownership for many people. It's better that the city owns all the aparments and that the people pay rent to the treasury rather than mortgages to the bank.
3. Owners of Blue properties go to jail after rolling 3 doubles in a row. Owners of Red properties go to jail after rolling 2 doubles in a row. Owners of railroads and public utilities never go to jail.
4. Only the wealthiest 1% of players must pay the luxury and income taxes.
5. When the wealthiest 1% pass Go, their $200 is immediately placed in ObamaParking. If a 1 percenter lands on ObamaParking, the money is divided equally amongst the remaining 99 percenters.
-PJ
Exceptional response. I imagine the now empty spots on the door Federal Wilderness Zones that send you to jail if you land on one. More Community Chest and Chance spots, and a bunch of spots that now reflect your increased involvement with the government (IRS spot, Death Panel spot, National Service spot, etc.)
GO TO JAIL. GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL. DO NOT PASS GO. DO NOT COLLECT TWO TRILLION DOLLARS.
Was it Parker Brothers? I can’t remember. Sucks getting old. :)
We played the hell out of that “Trouble” game (”Pop-o-matic pops the dice...pop a six and you move twice”), and also “Sorry”.
Mostly though, we ACTUALLY WENT OUTSIDE and played sports, fished, rode bikes, swam, hiked, etc. I wouldn’t trade that for all the video game playing today.
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