How to play with people who are better than you

Re:How to play with people who are better than you by logfromblammo on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:19AM (#21703469)

The point of Monopoly is to make money for the owner of the trademark, and condition people to buy games based on inertia, advertising, and nostalgia rather than complexity, balance, or fun.

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Re:How to play with people who are better than you by kazagistar on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:03PM (#21703989)

Fortunately we have a plethora of much better games now. I think monopoly will be a quirk of history soon. How many boomers have never played monopoly (and hopefully never will) because they have so many other games to play.

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Re:How to play with people who are better than you by setToNull on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @01:04PM (#21704921)

I don't understand. Boomers? People born between 1946 and 1964? I think most Boomers in North America and Europe have played Monopoly at least once. "Monopoly has been translated into 47 languages. It's played in 114 countries. It's sold more than 275 million copies. Hasbro prints $30 billion in Monopoly money each year, and well more than $3 trillion has been printed since 1935." -CNN https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/19/living/feat-monopoly-80th-ann...

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Re:How to play with people who are better than you by ysr23 on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @01:04PM (#21704922)

Boomers? Did you mean millennials?

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Re:How to play with people who are better than you by NoodleIncident on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:24PM (#21707878)

Was that an autocorrect from "zoomers" to "boomers"?

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