http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2013/02/21/i-fixed-monopoly-for-you Comments On: I Fixed Monopoly For You by Bobby Roberts en-us Copyright 2013 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
AUCTION PHASE

Shuffle the property cards and put out twice as many as there are players. Rearrange them from least to most expensive. Auction off the least expensive half.

TRADING PHASE

Negotiate trades with players for the properties you want to try to monopolize.

BUILDING PHASE

Build any houses and hotels on properties you have monopolized.

INCOME PHASE

Get whatever money you would normally get if someone landed on your property. Regular rules apply: triple for monopolies, more for houses and hotels.

TAX PHASE

Players are progressively taxed on their income. The richest player at 50% and the lowest player at 20%. This keeps things balanced so there's no run away winner.

RINSE, REPEAT

Do it all again until all the buildings are gone. You will progressively be buying up more expensive properties. The person with the most money wins.
Posted by Andy Mesa]]> Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:16:13 -0800 Portland Mercury
"In 1903, the Georgist Lizzie Magie applied for a patent on a game called The Landlord's Game with the object of showing that rents enriched property owners and impoverished tenants."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_board_game_Monopoly#Game_development_1903.E2.80.931934

Regardless of that, and also regardless of whatever rule changes are being suggested, Monopoly is not a good game. There are any number of newer board games that are better, more fun and less awful than Monopoly. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a walking porkchop.


Posted by Graham]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:23:58 -0800 Portland Mercury
I like these rules. Monopoly is the one game where no one should get butthurt about fucking each other over. That's why it was made.
Posted by Fruit Cup]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:19:29 -0800 Portland Mercury
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Posted by Joneser]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:01:29 -0800 Portland Mercury I was told -and this may not be true at all- that Monopoly was first developed by an economics professor as a working model of why capitalism doesn't work. Like I say, that might be bullshit, but I like it all the same.
Posted by rich bachelor]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:45:19 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Todd Mecklem]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:22:13 -0800 Portland Mercury