Monopoly!!!!

[MKCustodial]

Ok, time for a cultural debate. Everybody knows Monopoly, right? There are 300,000 types of Monopoly editions out there ranging from Disney to the Simpsons. Down here, it's called "Banco Imobiliário", and it could be loosely translated back as Real-Estate Banking. It comes with Brazilian addresses and everything.
Anyways, I had never played the thing untill last year, when the Disney edition came out down here. Not the WDW edition, the regular Disney one. Well, I never cared for the game, but this one had Scrooge McDuck, Tink and Cinderella's Castle on the box, so I HAD to get it. Mind you, we've had the "Game of Life" for more than 15 years, and I always felt one money-handling game was enough. But my Disney thirst had to be satiated. Well, you all know the feeling.
Well, I was just reading this article on X-Entertainment.com about the inevitable arguments that'll sprout not only for Monopoly but pretty much any board game out there. And I was kinda agreeing with everything. I mean, the Brazilian Monopolies don't have the fancy metal pieces, they're the regular every day color cones with the ball on top. You know the ones. But yeah, there was an argument, since everybody always wants to be either the red one or the black one.
But what stumped me was the "Free Parking" item. I don't know about regular Monopoly, as I said I've never played it, but I'm pretty sure that in the Disney edition Free Parking is just that. If you land there you don't have to pay anything but you also don't get anything. It's a blank spot. You do get $200 when you complete a go around the board, but that's it.
So I wanted to ask you guys if you also play by these weird rules where you keep putting together this certain ammount of money that'll eventually be a reward for whoever hits Free Parking or if Matt, from XE, is just a nut.

:wave:

 

[MKCustodial]

Oh, and in addition to "The Game of Life" and the Disney Monopoly, we also have War (this is close to Risk, but it's a modern day setting and you have 6 dice instead of 5), Detetive (Clue), Interpol (couldn't find its American counterpart), Imagem & Ação (Image & Action, pretty much Pictionary), Master (similar to Trivial Pursuit, but with a different board), Combate (couldn't find its American counterpart) and I just got Scrabble. I'm very proud of this last one, it's brand new in Brazil in its original form (there have been copies of it in the past), and I also wanted to get it but never did since following its original rules would invalidate playing it with Portuguese words.

 

[WDWspider]

The Free Parking space is a choice per whoever is playing. I think officially there is no signifigance to the space. We play where all the card money for like House repairs and things not going to other players goes into the center of the board and when you land on Free Parking you get it all.

It's a unofficial rule spread across the globe it appears. It just makes the useless space seem useful and gives someone far behind a chance to get ahead.

 

[WDWspider]

From the Official Rules:

FREE PARKING - A player landing on this space does not receive any money, property or reward of any kind. This is just a "free" resting place.

 

[MKCustodial]

Originally posted by spider-man
The Free Parking space is a choice per whoever is playing. I think officially there is no signifigance to the space. We play where all the card money for like House repairs and things not going to other players goes into the center of the board and when you land on Free Parking you get it all.

It's a unofficial rule spread across the globe it appears. It just makes the useless space seem useful and gives someone far behind a chance to get ahead.

Hmm... I'll have to think about that... :lol:

 

[guwag]

Originally posted by spider-man
The Free Parking space is a choice per whoever is playing. I think officially there is no signifigance to the space. We play where all the card money for like House repairs and things not going to other players goes into the center of the board and when you land on Free Parking you get it all.

It's a unofficial rule spread across the globe it appears. It just makes the useless space seem useful and gives someone far behind a chance to get ahead.

The rules I have state "When, in the ordinary course of play, a Player's token reaches this space, the Player recieves no benefit nor incurs any penalty, and moves ahead in the usual manner on his next turn" bue we play it like you said with the money aspect.
I wonder why Parker Bros didn't come up with anything for that square?

I like the London version (I have the 1961 version, it used to be my mom's) more than the American one, mainly because I know all the places on the London board and have been to each of them previously.

I personally prefer the sound of the real life version of Monopoly that you can play in London - A whole day pub crawl that starts in the Old Kent Road and finishes in Mayfair, got to have stamina for that one :lol:

 

[MKCustodial]

Interpol

Here's a picture. The original game had you playing as cops from Interpol or the criminal Agent X. The cops had to hunt him down through London, using buses, taxis and the subway. You start the game with a certan amount of chips for each vehicle. The board had dots wih numbers on them, and yellow, blue and red lines representing taxis, buses and subway lines. Subways moved further away than taxis, buses were the middle ground. Agent X would only reveal itself every 3 rounds, and the player would keep track of where he was using a special board. The others had to move around by guessing where he could go from where he showed up last. It's a very entertaining game, and sometimes you'd never catch Agent X since you'd run out of chips. The new version is set in New York, and it has new additions. The cops can use a helicopter and set road blocks, and Agent X can use the ferries.

 

[MKCustodial]

Combate

This one is for two players. Each has an army, consisting of pretty much every rank out there, and also a spy, some bombs and a flag. You gotta find the other army's flag. Each rank has a number, so if you try to take out a general with a private, you're gonna lose your soldier.

 

[Wilson]

In the US,
Interpol = Scotland Yard
and Combate = Stratego

 

[MKCustodial]

Originally posted by Wilson
In the US,
Interpol = Scotland Yard
and Combate = Stratego

Hey, thanks, Wilson! :wave:

It's funny, cause we do have a Scotland Yard down here. You gotta solve crimes visiting places in London and receiving clues to where to go next...

 

[CmdrTostada]

Originally posted by Wilson
In the US,
Interpol = Scotland Yard
and Combate = Stratego

Where have you been wilson? I heven't seen you post in awhile. it's great to have you back.

 

[Wilson]

Thanks very much. Good to be back.

I've been in seclusion, working hard on my Expedition: Everest wallpaper, although sadly it has but one vote thus far.*

Actually, I've been around, although without a lot of extra time lately, I've just been reading rather than posting. I'm here just about every day though. It's like an addiction, or something.

Let's see, in the spirit of this thread, I feel compelled to report that not only did my family collect money for landing on Free Parking, we also gave out 5 bills for each denomination of money, so we started out with like $3400 instead of the standard $2000. Why? I really don't know. We were just kinda stupid.


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* Thanks, Mom

 

[CmdrTostada]

In one of the monopoly games I had for the Mac, way back in '95, theu included the unofficial free parking rule. So everytime I play I try to go with the unofficial rule