Monopoly Board Game Who grew up playing it?

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Posted: 9/7/2020 12:12:30 AM EDT

Did any of you grow up playing this board game?
I was playing Monopoly Board game since I was around 7 years old and it was one of my favorites.
It taught me from a young age that managing money and putting it on the right properties will bankrupt the other players but if you get unlucky with a dice roll it will land you in jail but if your resourceful you can own the whole board of properties by taking careful calculated moves with luck too.

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:14:31 AM EDT

[#1]

Monopoly night was serious bidness

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:18:36 AM EDT

[#2]

Dibs on the car!

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:19:12 AM EDT

[#3]

Loved it... still play the variations today... we have the Nintendo version and a Virginia winery version.

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:20:37 AM EDT

[#4]

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:20:54 AM EDT

[#5]

Oh yeah. My son and I still play it sometimes.

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:22:09 AM EDT

[#6]

Still my favorite board game even though I haven't played it in years.

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:23:07 AM EDT

[#7]

Witnessed an actual fist fight go down in the front yard 20 something years ago over that game. Fun night.

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:25:12 AM EDT

[#8]

One time when I played Monopoly as a kid I got fired and prosecuted for embezzling money from the bank

I had to finance my real estate somehow. Looking back I was ahead of my time for adopting the Savings and Loan model.

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:25:33 AM EDT

[#9]

It's still in our game night rotation.

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:26:08 AM EDT

[#10]

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:26:08 AM EDT

[#11]

Board games were serious business in my family. My father would regularly crush my brother and I at Monopoly by acquiring the properties that had cards that directed you to go to them and stacking hotels on them.

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:31:02 AM EDT

[#12]

There isnt a Thanksgiving I can remember that this game hasnt been played by my family.

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:32:41 AM EDT

[#13]

Mostly when we were camping in our pop-up. I still have it.

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:33:40 AM EDT

[#14]

Had to replace the old copy of Monopoly, as it got too hard to use the board, even with Duct tape holding it together. THIS is the "so new that it still has the plastic on it" SPARE one...

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Got the Star Wars one put up, just in case the series ever gets *unfucked*...

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:36:45 AM EDT

[#15]

Monopoly
Life
Scrabble
Yahtzee
Clue
Mousetrap
Risk

etc..

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:38:10 AM EDT

[#16]

Yep. After a while we made our own rules that included "credit cards" and "loans".

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:47:38 AM EDT

[#17]

Used to play it a lot as a child. My grandmother would own everyone’s ass every time, she was cutthroat. I’ve only played it a few times over the last 10 or so years, but no one ever wants a rematch

. Guess my grandma taught me a few things

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:49:38 AM EDT

[#18]

I played it alot as a kid with my parents. My wife is WAY to competitive when it comes to board games so I don't play them anymore. Its comical and scary to see her be nice and playful...till something goes bad and she table flips the board game and says "fuck it!"

I did just download a 3rd party version of the game 3 days ago and been playing the shit out of it.

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:55:11 AM EDT

[#19]

I played it growing up, but I can't say I enjoyed it much. Nothing against Monopoly, just not my bag...

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:56:11 AM EDT

[#20]

ALL TAXES GO TOWARDS TUE CENTER. FREE PARKING COLLECTS.

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:56:22 AM EDT

[#21]

That is a pretty niche game I doubt anyone here ever played it.

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:57:35 AM EDT

[#22]

Yes.

Monopoly and Yahtzee.

Posted: 9/7/2020 12:57:55 AM EDT

[#23]

I still play it, mostly with my grand kids.

Posted: 9/7/2020 1:12:18 AM EDT

[#24]

Oh yeah. Still play it sometimes. We have the game in the closet.

Posted: 9/7/2020 1:13:36 AM EDT

[#25]

Now a convenient propaganda tool

Posted: 9/7/2020 1:15:26 AM EDT

[#26]

I bought the kids the "Cheaters Edition" where you can play dirty, or with zero rules.

The kids wanted to play with zero rules.

First, I stole the bank when they weren't looking.

Next, I took their own cash when they weren't paying attention to me.

Finally, I stole their tokens off the board and held them for ransom.

I won.

Posted: 9/7/2020 1:17:26 AM EDT

[#27]

Posted: 9/7/2020 1:24:59 AM EDT

[#28]

Yep. Dad was ruthless when he played with us. In the words of Henry Hill (Ray Liotta): "Fuck you, pay me."

Posted: 9/7/2020 1:25:13 AM EDT

[#29]

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ALL TAXES GO TOWARDS TUE CENTER. FREE PARKING COLLECTS.

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This house rule drastically increases the length of the game. Money is supposed to be tight. If people complain about how long Monopoly takes, this is usually why.

Posted: 9/7/2020 1:49:39 AM EDT

[#30]

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I bought the kids the "Cheaters Edition" where you can play dirty, or with zero rules.

The kids wanted to play with zero rules.

First, I stole the bank when they weren't looking.

Next, I took their own cash when they weren't paying attention to me.

Finally, I stole their tokens off the board and held them for ransom.

I won.

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lol

Posted: 9/7/2020 1:51:15 AM EDT

[#31]

That and life. I got monopoly ww2 edition as a gift a while back.

Posted: 9/7/2020 2:00:26 AM EDT

[#32]

This and Risk.

Posted: 9/7/2020 2:01:41 AM EDT

[#33]

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Quoted:
I bought the kids the "Cheaters Edition" where you can play dirty, or with zero rules.

The kids wanted to play with zero rules.

First, I stole the bank when they weren't looking.

Next, I took their own cash when they weren't paying attention to me.

Finally, I stole their tokens off the board and held them for ransom.

I won.

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Lol. My daughter and I played that once, she loved it a little too much

Monopoly was guaranteed to start a fight when my family played. Now there's only about an 87% chance we fight, so we're getting better

Posted: 9/7/2020 2:13:46 AM EDT

[#34]

Hell I grew up with this in the game closet.
Probably still there.

Posted: 9/7/2020 2:58:08 AM EDT

[#35]

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Quoted:
I bought the kids the "Cheaters Edition" where you can play dirty, or with zero rules.

The kids wanted to play with zero rules.

First, I stole the bank when they weren't looking.

Next, I took their own cash when they weren't paying attention to me.

Finally, I stole their tokens off the board and held them for ransom.

I won.

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Posted: 9/7/2020 3:15:20 AM EDT

[#36]

Me. I was 10yrs old [1983 ] when gifted with Monopoly for a BD. Close friend of my father [high level Party member but a good man] bring it from West Europe. The board was in French

. Countless nights with family and friends .

Posted: 9/7/2020 3:50:39 AM EDT

[#37]

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This house rule drastically increases the length of the game. Money is supposed to be tight. If people complain about how long Monopoly takes, this is usually why.

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This and not allowing players to sell property between each other. IE no one has a monopoly.

Posted: 9/7/2020 3:56:06 AM EDT

[#38]

Posted: 9/7/2020 3:56:39 AM EDT

[#39]

I was pretty good back in my day, but I had the common strategy down.

Posted: 9/7/2020 3:58:18 AM EDT

[#40]

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Monopoly night was serious bidness

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Yup!

How do you think I learned my white privilege?

Posted: 9/7/2020 4:37:19 AM EDT

[#41]

There is no game that can piss people off like Monopoly. The winning strategy is to get the other player’s nuts in a vice and crank until they’re crushed.

When I was a patrol cop I responded to a call on Thanksgiving Day where multiple family members brawled over Monopoly and the worst injury was a compound fracture.

Posted: 9/7/2020 4:44:37 AM EDT

[#42]

The Nintendo version ruined it for me, it doesn't take long at all to figure out the game is 100% luck when you eliminate all the time sinks.

Posted: 9/7/2020 4:46:56 AM EDT

[#43]

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Me. I was 10yrs old [1983 ] when gifted with Monopoly for a BD. Close friend of my father [high level Party member but a good man] bring it from West Europe. The board was in French

. Countless nights with family and friends .

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That is too cool that a party member smuggled the most capitalistic board game ever made into the CCCP!

Posted: 9/7/2020 5:16:31 AM EDT

[#44]

Picking up pieces after the board is thrown. Fond memories

Posted: 9/7/2020 5:28:30 AM EDT

[#45]

I liked it better when the Monopoly man had a monocle.

Posted: 9/7/2020 5:45:04 AM EDT

[#46]

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Yep. After a while we made our own rules that included "credit cards" and "loans".

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We always gave out 4 times the cash to each player at the beginning so everyone could buy up all the shit fast. More fun and faster game this way.

Posted: 9/7/2020 5:46:59 AM EDT

[#47]

I don't recall anyone I grew up with not having board games like monopoly and scrabble.
They were the sorts of things that every middle America family owned.