Monopólio

[Kronopt]

E há ainda o facto de 70% dos jogos nunca acabarem por falta de tempo, vontade, honestidade ou todas as 3 coisas.

É mesmo verdade, nunca me lembro de alguma vez ter acabado um jogo de monopólio

[Khorazyn]

If Monopoly Was Honest

Monopoly was created in 1935, and the first game still hasn't finished.

Monopoly
In Monopoly, one player lucks into massive financial victory early on and spends the rest of the game slowly grinding everyone else into dust, accusing them of being poor losers when they complain. It's basically Capitalism: The Game--so try not to be the boot next time, Third World!

Even the British royal family refuses to the play the game because it gets "too vicious." That's the actual royal family, selected through generations of breeding and a lifetime's training to smile and wave politely at people, and they can't trust themselves around Monopoly. If you think you're calmer than that you go right ahead.

Game Length

The average length of a family is game is "infinity hours," as shouting and slammed doors aren't recognized as a victory condition by the official rules. We're not saying it's a terminally flawed game with all the time-awareness of a concussed Redwood: Hasbro themselves said that when they added extra rules to the official World Monopoly Championships to end the game inside a human lifespan.


The Free Parking Controversy
The official rules are "Absolutely nothing happens on Free Parking," as even the anti-family campaigners of Parker Brothers couldn't bring themselves to make the game longer. Some people add a cash prize of "all money paid to the bank" for landing on Free Parking, because nothing shortens an agonizingly interminable game like huge cash injections for random players. (Make a bailout joke here if you want.)

Notable Games
Bjorn Halvard Knappskog won over 20-thousand dollars in the 2009 World Monopoly Championships, while specially modified sets contained escape kits for British POWs during World War II. In other words, people need to be offered five-figure sums or held in Nazi prison camps to finish a game of Monopoly.

[Rufferto]

In Monopoly, one player lucks into massive financial victory early on and spends the rest of the game slowly grinding everyone else into dust, accusing them of being poor losers when they complain.

Pois, o problema do Monopólio é mesmo este: depois de umas voltas ao tabuleiro fica logo evidente que há um jogador que irá ganhar, e o resto do jogo fica a ser essencialmente esperar que os outros calhem nas casas que os irão arruinar.

The official rules are "Absolutely nothing happens on Free Parking," as even the anti-family campaigners of Parker Brothers couldn't bring themselves to make the game longer. Some people add a cash prize of "all money paid to the bank" for landing on Free Parking, because nothing shortens an agonizingly interminable game like huge cash injections for random players.

Também já joguei com esse sistema, mas acaba por não fazer muita diferença. Se há um jogador com hotéis nas propriedades mais caras, os outros bem que podem ficar momentaneamente ricos que irão inevitavelmente perder o dinheiro todo.

[Kanzentai]

Para não ficarem só os excertos que o Vasco cá colocou, aqui está o link para o artigo completo, incluindo a magnífica imagem do princípio.

[Kronopt]

I love cracked.com

[Kronopt]

[Klawfive]

Ontem redescobri esse artigo quando andava a passear no Cracked
... vou lá quase todos os dias

Ia postar esta imagem no Coisas com Piada... depois lembrei-me de que havia uma thread de Monopólio, e cá estou eu...

[FoxRS]

Quem será o Rossio?

[Kronopt]

É o M.Bison (o capitão de vermelho) pelos vistos x)