Playing the TINIEST Monopoly...
Yes, everything is the same scale as the money. My wife had to put on her glasses to read the property names on the board. But when we let my daughter play, she is allowed to pay her rent in kisses... so BEST. FIVE DOLLARS SPENT. EVAR!!!
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Plus... she like sucks up all the doubles... freakiest thing you ever saw.
Arh, monopoly great game that can take simply ages to complete, without cheating that is. I have never seen one as small as that though. Was it another thrift store find?
Yup. It's the "Travel Edition." Everything you love about Monopoly but shrunk down small enough to set up on the back seat of the station wagon.
There is one concession to the "portable" nature of this version that does change the dynamic of the game tho... Chance and Community Chest are now events on a card (the events are also slightly different from classic Monopoly, but mostly the same effect), which are chosen by a 3D6 roll. What this does is make EVERY possible event an even probability EVERY TIME, where before an event would be taken out of rotation until the stack was used up & reshuffled. This made it possible for my son and I to trade off "Advance to St Charles Place" and "Take a ride on the Reading RR" 3 or 4 times during a single game... something which normally would be almost impossible. It really does affect the balance of gameplay, which eventually resulted in me wiping him out once I had hotels on the St Charles, etc monopoly.
This makes properties which show up as events on the card ... St. Charles, Reading & Pennsylvania RRs, Illinois & Mediterranean Aves, & Boardwalk... each have an extra 2 chances (2 each at 1:15 odds for Chance & Community Chest) of a player hitting them every trip round the board.
Which is okay... it made last night's game a reasonable 2 hours. Definitely less annoying than Cheater's Edition, another Thrift store score which is just plain a rolling fustercluck.
Monopoly is a favorite "Family time" activity going back to my own childhood... it's wondermous that I get to infect my own chiddlers with this particular madness.
Sounds a bit sexist, how come the Boi can't pay his rent like that too?
No; nothing more than a simple concession to the fact that she's LD. We still include her in family time; we just allow her to play at the level she can comprehend.
mnem