<p>Calling all player of “Monopoly”:</p>
<p>Was “Monopoly” the best game ever?
Did it help you to be fast and furious in your decisions?
Did you play often?
If you played it often, did it help you to be competitive in life?
Did you play while young and follow the tradition in your family?</p>
<p>just heard on the news that the new edition is going to have an ATM machine?? is nothing sacred???</p>
<p>yes, I played often…
more competitive? nah; just a game…
haven’t followed the tradition (sadly)…</p>
<p>I still have my original game, though the box is shabby, from my chiildhood. Probably helped to me aware of the need for savings. Glad I’ve never needed a “get out of jail free” card. I like “Life” too. Fun game.</p>
<p>my kids loved “Clue”…that was kinda our tradition…and “Uno” was a popular one also in this house…</p>
<p>jym: I’m sending you a PM about an unrelated observation…</p>
<p>Ok rodney-- I will await anxiously :)</p>
<p>Colonel Mustard in the drawing room with the candlestick!! Loved it! Also loveaaagghh— whats the name-- mastermind?? Had to figure out your opponents 5 letter word by getting told how many letters in the word you posited was in the target word? I love those kinds of things</p>
<p>An ATM machine? Probably to save for the raining days…I need to update my old skills</p>
<p>Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s, and in a big family, Monopoly was the go to game for us and we played it often. However, some of the game is just a matter of luck - eg. what spaces you land on and thus what properties you could buy - so that was one thing I didn’t like about it. I think “Risk” was a better game because of the strategy and analytical thinking involved. There is now an on-line version of Risk where you can play people from all over the world and my son enjoys that quite a bit.</p>
<p>I did love Monopoly as a kid- we played any time it was too cold or rainy to play outside. I am a teacher now, and I see many learning opportunities in Monopoly: The usual fair play/taking turns opportunities; plus sustained attention opportunities, since games took hours; counting/using money, making change, planning ahead; good sportsmanship. I think solitary video games that are popular now really deprive kids of those opportunities.</p>
<p>I also loved Clue- great opportunity to use deductive reasoning, the game of Life, and especially Mille Borne - learn French while doing arithmetic! </p>
<p>BTW- al these games were played without parental participation- neighborhood kids only. Lots of conflict solving opportunities there.</p>
<p>We played monopoly and now our kids play it too. Hours on end. It’s a lot of fun. As for competitive, no. How I buy houses not the board is not like how I have bought real estate in real life 
And as a family, we usually ended up cutting deals and helping out each other to stay in the game…so if anything, it has reinforced our cooperative nature and the fact that we know that the outcome is not the point of it at all.</p>
<p>I have played a lot of Monopoly. Badly. I have never been competitive enough to play well.</p>
<p>My son and husband play for blood, but I don’t think playing Monopoly made them competitive. Rather, they play better because they are competitive enough to care whether they win or lose.</p>
<p>I noticed that over Christmas, my son was a much less aggressive player than usual, and I suspect it had something to do with the fact that his girlfriend was playing with us. Hiding his real self, I think.</p>
<p>The only game I played for blood was (and is) Scrabble.</p>
<p>our family didn’t have Monopoly- we played Go and Chess/Checkers- Mille Bornes- Yahtzee-um a few other card games-
not alot of family type board games
My family likes Cranium.
H & I used to play Feudal</p>
<p>I played it often as a kid and most recently with my D during the Christmas break. It’s a great game and one of the best ever.</p>
<p>With my Ds I started playing it with them when they were very young (before school age). It helped them to be able to recognize numbers, count, add, subtract larger numbers, and to make decisions that would have consequences later (i.e. buying a property or not, etc.). </p>
<p>Prior to monopoly it was first ‘Go Fish’ to get used to numbers and then ‘blackjack’ to be able to quickly add/subtract numbers - all before preschool. I think they had a pretty good advantage when it came to math going into school as a result. It’s amazing what kids are capable of when given the chance and encouragement and simple games like these can help.</p>
<p>Scrabble’s the other good one - the language/spelling counterpart to these other games.</p>
<p>My dad and his siblings had the original version of Monopoly when it came out in the Depression. He told me they were the only family who owned it, and lots of kids would gather around in the summer and they would all play the game under a big tree.</p>
<p>When I was a child, my sisters and I used my mom’s Monopoly set from the 30s or early 40s. Her dad was a talented craftsman and had made little wooden trays to hold the paper money. </p>
<p>I still remember the first time I saw the game box, and I read the word as mun-o-po-lee. We liked playing Clue better than Monopoly.</p>
<p>Risk always ended badly. Someone would throw the board game in the air because someone else had invaded Kamchatka.</p>
<p>My boyfriend and I play monopoly every week, I didn’t have the attention span for it when I was a kid. We always played Clue when we were growing up. We play a lot of monopoly and battleship now. We tried to play Life a while ago but couldn’t figure it out.</p>
<p>There has been a version of monopoly with plastic cards instead of money for a while, I really want it. My boyfriend and I argue about math too much. o.O</p>
<p>Lately I’ve been playing “Michiganopoly.” No, nothing is sacred. :P</p>
<p>We played lots of board games when I was a kid, and I played many with my kids. I don’t like monopoly - the idea of going around collecting property and getting everyone’s money never appealed to me. Don’t like Risk either. I preferred cards, Clue, Scrabble, backgammon, Mastermind, Battleship, Pente, trivia games; these days we like Apples to Apples for family get togethers. I play a version of Scrabble online with a friend.</p>
<p>I always found Monopoly really boring. Just didn’t appeal to my deeper interests.</p>
<p>Monopoly is OK, but Settlers of Catan is far better. Same kind of idea, but better.</p>
<p>We played lots of board games. Funny - I can’t stand them now. We played a lot of Life. And Mousetrap. Although we played plenty of Monopoly, we also like the “opposite” game called Go for Broke, where you start out with lots of money and try to get rid of it.</p>