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 My Monopoly Review Mar 07, 2010
We had fun as this game will never end.... Good even for 4 people..... cant be played in a larger scale though...
 Monopoly is a piggy Republican game Mar 03, 2010
Monopoly is somewhat educational as far as the business world goes--but ultimately it's a a piggy, greedy Republican game. Don't play it a lot. You'll raise unpleasant kids. [And no, I'm not a Democrat.] Can't American toy makers come up with something more creative than the 1000th version of Monopoly?
 one of the best board games every Feb 08, 2010
I recently got back into Monopoly and am really loving these new sets. Very nice and a real bargain for all the hours of enjoyment you'll get from it. It's also a great educational lesson for both kids and adults, teaching about investments, passive income, saving, and more. Lots of fun, especially when you have a group of about four players.
There are a lot of versions of this game and this one is the best in my opinion. So classic that it's hard to improve on. :)
monopoly Jan 31, 2010
My nephew really enjoys this game and is learning the value of money. Its a good educational game for thr whole family
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If you are annoyed by small "updates," this is not the set for you Jan 18, 2010
This Monopoly set was cheaply produced in China, as you might guess given its price. For a family looking for a first set, it seems satisfactory. But anyone who has played Monopoly for years should be on notice that this set, redesigned in 2008, includes several minor annoyances.
First, the most practical annoyance. The board folds up into quarters, which allows the manufacturer to fit the set into a smaller box, presumably to reduce production costs. But because the box is somewhat smaller (about 16 inches long), there is no room for the sort of convenient tray for Monopoly money that was once standard in the old boxes (which were about 20 inches long). This is annoying for both gameplay and storage.
Second, the producers have unnecessarily and inexplicably made small changes to the rules of the game -- rules that have stood for more than half a century. Landing on the Luxury Tax space used to cost you $75; now it costs $100. The new rules also change the numbers of each kind of bill to be apportioned to players at the start of the game -- and in fact, the game comes with a smaller supply of some bills.
Mention of this set's Monopoly money brings us to the third annoyance: the manufacturers made numerous gratuitous changes to the look of the game. The palette of colors used for Monopoly bills in the United States since the 1940s has been changed: The $10 bill used to be yellow; now it's blue. The $50 bill used to be blue; now it's purple. (These changes make it hard to reuse money from older Monopoly sets.) Among the other unnecessary changes to the look of the game: The formerly purple properties on the board (Mediterranean Avenue and Baltic Avenue) have been recolored brown. The Community Chest and Chance cards are now printed on white cardstock instead of the familiar orange and yellow, and the classic drawings on those cards have been replaced with computer-generated 3D cartoons. Even the "Go" space has been redesigned: now the word "Go" is written in black instead of the familiar red. (Stodgy purists might also be put off by the various alterations to font, logo, and other design elements.)
To be sure, these changes do not alter the fundamentals of the game itself. But they are annoying enough that anyone with nostalgic memories of the game from childhood should consider a different set.
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