Holiday Excuses

Sometimes I’ve tried to change up the Monopoly game with new cards to challenge the property owners. The only one I remember how is “Rent Strike!” which (if I recall correctly) causes the person who got it to miss one turn. While the other players take their next turn this person is also unable to charge rent (if due) to anyone who landed on their property. Sadly, I don’t remember if this had any long-lasting effects on the game.

I’m putting this out under my real first name as a tiny holiday gift to the CoJ community. Enjoy and feel free to add new disruptive cards!

When playing with kids and the the game is lasting until I’ve gone gray, I’ve been known to rob the bank and run. Mayhem ensues and I’m declared the loser and they divvy up the rest and are champions. My grandson calls it his name-opoly and brings all these random small toys into the game and while it makes zero sense he has fun and that’s the whole goal.

Bonnie, your bank robbery behavior is very funny (and a guaranteed way to end a game that’s freezing into boredom)! I’ve played games with bank robbers but it’s usually someone quietly transferring assets from the bank to their personal stash of cash.

I’m genuinely surprised that there are not Monopoly meet-ups for all the people who love Monopoly but no one else will play with them! There could be a support group meeting for the siblings of Monopoly fans in the space next door. And EMTs at the ready.
– Signed, sister of a hardcore Monopoly player

While eating fruitcake. Double whammy!

I wish you were our neighbor!! Taking a cue from earlier this week, would gift you coupons to play Monopoly with my tween.

Any chance you live in the Boston area?
My son is an avid fan of Monopoly & well, the rest of us don’t have as much enthusiasm.

The last time I played about 10 years ago we all got so bummed out by the shear meanness we had to quit. Capitalism laid bare for all the children to cry about.

My sister is SO competitive at Monopoly too. My daughter and I still laugh about the time she said to her and my son-in- law ” I’d rather eat these properties than sell them to you !” She is 72 now and as we speak I’m at work waiting for word on her transfer from hospital to a physical rehab facility. Bless her and her beautiful brilliant mind. She’s confused at present. :(

Monopoly started out at The Landlords Game, invented by a woman with a very different approach of how this game should be played. Her name is Lizzy Magie. Obvs. a man stole the idea and sold it as its own, now called Monopoly. https://amp.dw.com/en/monopoly-the-story-of-a-stolen-game/a-71975425 I found it an interesting read. Maybe we should bring back the original. And the thoughts behind it.

My thirteen year old played the Monopoly Deal card game all through our trip to France and horrified anyone in earshot with her cackling, greedy laugh whenever she managed to collect the blue set of properties along with a house, hotel and rent card. I’ve never seen her so savagely triumphant. Once we returned, I buried them in our game closet like those people in the Exorcist house stashed their Ouija board.

I do not have slime in my house and you may not bring slime into my house. We all learn that the hard way. ;)

And I too have an aversion to Monopoly… but the new(ish) Monopoly Deal card game is actually fun! And doesn’t take nearly as long!

It’s a tied race on which I hate most: slime in my house or playing Monopoly.

I’m a librarian and we just completed sending out the replies to all the children’s Santa letter (seriously making the deadline for the post is ridiculously stressful)… but gosh it is fun. One kid wanted slime so Santa replied that once he heard a commotion coming from the workshop playroom. The elves were having a slime fight, and a big dollop of slime landed in his beard. In the end Mrs Claus has to help him shave off his beard! But luckily he is magic and it grew back the next day.

Kirby that made me smile!!

Haha Peach – no I gave them a recipe to make it at home! (I didn’t, but I wish I had, how funny….)