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In Monopoly, one player lucks into massive financial victory early on and spends the rest of the game slowly grinding everyone else into dust, accusing them of being poor losers when they complain. It's basically Capitalism: The Game--so try not to be the boot next time, Third World!
The average length of a family is game is "infinity hours," as shouting and slammed doors aren't recognized as a victory condition by the official rules. We're not saying it's a terminally flawed game with all the time-awareness of a concussed Redwood: Hasbro themselves said that when they added extra rules to the official World Monopoly Championships to end the game inside a human lifespan.
The official rules are "Absolutely nothing happens on Free Parking," as even the anti-family campaigners of Parker Brothers couldn't bring themselves to make the game longer. Some people add a cash prize of "all money paid to the bank" for landing on Free Parking, because nothing shortens an agonizingly interminable game like huge cash injections for random players. (Make a bailout joke here if you want.)
Bjorn Halvard Knappskog won over 20-thousand dollars in the 2009 World Monopoly Championships, while specially modified sets contained escape kits for British POWs during World War II. In other words, people need to be offered five-figure sums or held in Nazi prison camps to finish a game of Monopoly.
Bratz Monopoly
An attempt to keep whichever insane perverts that like these slutbabies locked up in their own homes forever.
Beatles Monopoly
There is literally no way to wring more money out of Lennon's corpse without digging the thing up and eBaying bits of it.
Dale Earnhardt Monopoly
Requires a love of NASCAR and an understanding of actually owning property. Target audience of zero.
Batman and Robin Monopoly
Still better than the movie.
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Cracked Talk on | If Monopoly Was Honest
@ There is literally no way to wring more money out of Lennon's corpse without digging the thing up and eBaying bits of it.
From the eBay website: Humans, the human body, or any human body parts are not permitted on eBay.
Link: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/remains.html
Market it as "John Lennon collectors items". Now you can own a piece of John Lennon's life with this item of undisclosed origin.
Coincidentally, that's how Ringo still makes money.
Fortuitous Earthquake FTW!
"That's the actual royal family, selected through generations of breeding and a lifetime's training to smile and wave politely at people"
LOL. Surely you mean "generations of subjugating peasants and raping the chambermaids". Genetically, nobility are not very nice people. The great achievement of the last few centuries was stripping power from them.
"It's basically Capitalism: The Game"
Well, yeah. That's why it's called Monopoly. It is - and was always meant to be - a little political science lesson. The fact that a random player lucks out is kind of the entire point of the game.