CodingInLondon on Nostr: Monopoly What's interesting with this board game is that: - No two editions have the ...
Monopoly
What's interesting with this board game is that:
- No two editions have the same rule set.
- The printed rule set is always missing from the box.
- Everyone thinks their version of the rules is the right one.
Players don’t argue too much though because after all it’s only a game. Somehow there is an emerging consensus on what the rules should be and all players eventually more or less agree.
Hours of fun!
Now imagine a version of the game where one of the players has special advantages:
- They can use and spend unlimited amount of money from the bank with no penalty.
- If the box runs out of paper notes, they just make up more money by writing entries on a ledger they control.
- If some other player’s bankruptcy threaten to affect the whole game, they bail them out thanks to access to unlimited money.
- They can change the rules as they see fit during the game.
- They can send other players to prison if they decide they’re in breach of a rule they changed.
- And if they’re still losing despite all those advantages, they can seize other players’ property or reset the whole game by making up some reason why players should fight one another.
Sounds like a very crap version of Monopoly. Would you play it?
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