Monopoly Junior

Sometimes, it takes a while for a little boy to truly appreciate a a present he received. Case in point: finally, after a year or two since he received it, Wolfie has decided that he wanted to play Monopoly. Well, not quite, it was the Junior version. When bought it for him, either for Christmas or his birthday, he could not be bothered with it and didn't give it a second look. Then a few months ago he played with his friends from school once, home-made rules. When he saw it among his toys and games last week, he just remembered and it's all he wanted to play. It's pretty much the same game, only way simpler and far more based on luck than strategy. But hey it's a start. I love board games, they kept me busy through my childhood, so I hope Wolfie's interest in Monopoly Junior will lead to more.

Monopoly Tokens

I found this meme online a few days ago and it got me thinking about the classic board game Monopoly. Maybe the most popular board game in history. It has never been my favourite board game, but it is one I often played through my childhood, with my friends and my brothers, although I was never very good at it. I don't remember winning once. That said, the meme got me thinking. My favourite Monopoly token has always been the top hat. I think I always played with it, at least when we used the original version. Not sure why, maybe because I found it fitting for a game where you played a businessman in a suit. In fact, of all the tokens it's the only one I genuinely like. And you, which one is your favourite and why?

A Forgotten Monopoly Rule

The Christmas holidays is for many the time to play board games with the whole extended family. It used to be for us, anyway in our family gathering. And if there is something that irritated me when we played board games with our family, is people making up rules or ignoring them altogether because they did not know any better. Like, for instance, having whoever has the highest roll of the dice starts in Cluedo. (It's Miss Scarlet who does.) But anyway, I wanted to point out to a forgotten rule in Monopoly which has got some public attention recently. Read this Daily Mail article. So basically, if someone lands on a property and they don't buy it, the property goes to auction and it goes to the highest bidder. Moral of the story: read the complete rulebook thorougly.