Why I HATE Monopoly

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1. easy to play, easy to set up, easy to teach, easy to find, easy to find ppl that knows the rules, and with just a lil flavor text , xD

2. Our gaming team is myself and my wife
   And our friends who are a couple.
   As they moved into a bigger home games night was at there's…
   We want to play monopoly…
   Sigh
   Ok I says
   It's cheat monopoly….ok I says
   Omg I was bored
   Even being allowed to cheat doesn't improve monopoly…and half way through the evening our friends had a huge argument over the game sk we stopped before it got really nasty lol

3. I’m the only one in my family who is social

4. I like Monopoly, but it's hard to find anyone who will play because of childhood trauma.
   Played cut-throat with the actual rules it's an OK game. Too many people put money on free parking which leads to stalemate.

5. Yes i agreed there is a lot of fun games put there.

6. Blaaa blaaaaa blaaaaa I hate you😭 your complaining about nothing I spend 17,000 min on this thing and you telling me to trow it away that’s unexplainable

7. I'm not a fan of Monopoly too.

8. What if you changed one rule. When you roll the dice, you can move that many spaces or less.

9. he's reaching

10. The length of the game has been addressed in the actual rules. You can set a time limit for the game, 30 min/60 min/etc. Also, I'm surprised you don't have a speed die with your Monopoly game.

11. Guess I'll just stick to Twister.

12. Is that a spiderman suit?

13. Totally agree!

14. First rule proposal: When the first player is eliminated, gameplay ends. The winner is the highest net worth at that time.
    — Reduces late-game slog.

    Second rule proposal: All players start with three properties, randomly dealt to them.
    — Reduces early-game phase time.

    Third rule proposal: Free Parking is removed and replaced with a new space: Gas Service. Gas service is a property in the Utility category and works the same way as Water Works or Electric Company. A monopoly of all three Utilities changes the multiplier from 4x (one utility owned) and 10x (two utilities owned) to 20x for all three owned.
    — This eliminates a dead-space on the board and helps to make the utilities more relevant to the game.

    Fourth rule proposal: For all Utilities: If a player lands on them, he rolls both dice and pays the owner dice value * the number of houses on all his properties. If she owns both WW and EC, he pays double and if she owns all three, he pays triple. I.e. Player 1 owns 11 houses & 2 hotels (13 total) ; he lands on Water Works. So he rolls the dice and the result is 8. Multiply that with the 13 buildings he owns for a total of $104, or $312 if she owns all three utilities.
    — This is a small counterbalance to owning large numbers of houses, since it specifically hits large house ownership harder.

    Fifth rule proposal: A player in jail receives only half of all monies, to which he would normally collect from rents and incomes. The other half of collected monies goes to the bank.

    — This reduces the effectiveness of the remain-in-jail late game strategy.

    Sixth rule proposal: Players no longer need a complete monopoly to build houses on a color group. On any and each owned color property, the player may build as many houses as properties in the color group he owns. I.e. If Player 1 owns Kentucky Ave, but no other red properties, then he may build up to one house on Kentucky Ave. If Player 2 owns St James Place and New York Ave, but not Tennessee Ave, then he may build up to two houses on each orange property he owns. All restrictions are removed when the player gets a monopoly.
    — This reduces player stagnation caused by lack of monopolies.

15. You don't like Mcdonalds? It's probably the best fast food restaurant with a lot of different choices that are actually good.

16. One thing I do not like about it is the possible infinite gameplay.

17. Tom – it's not fine that people like monopoly. Anyone who does needs a strong talking too. Or be introduced to Settlers of Catan.

18. "GET RID OF THE MONOPOLY" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

19. Monopoly is "old hat" lousy game, don't care how many copies were sold./ Silly components, lame rules, just a big yawn.
    Yes It still to this day it helps kill board-gaming, even though board-gaming is pretty much mainstreamed.

20. I always lost at Monopoly because I could never get Park Place and Boardwalk. As far as the old classic games are concerned, my favorite is Clue. You're still at the mercy of the dice roll, but you also have to do some thinking.

21. The music in this is great. What an unexpected treat!

22. This is how you make monopoly shorter. Play up to 4 players. Nobody is allowed more than 2 property sets each. Rail Roads are 1 each & utilities are up for grabs. You eliminate trading this way since if a person bought 1 color of a property set you are not allowed to buy the same color as that property goes to the 1st person who bought the 1st color. Remember each of you can only have 2 property sets. So 1 player can't buy all 8 property sets on the board.

    Auction rule. Use that. Don't rely on dice to land on the properties you need to make a set. So 4 players landing on many spaces gives you a greater chance to have a set that much more quickly. So say you have board walk, it's a lot easier for 3 other people to land on park place for you to buy it at 350. What I do is even qucker so say players land on board walk they pay you rent & because they were on 1 of the color set you own you can now buy park place. So instead of 4 players landing on 1 space they need you increase that by 1 & have them land on 2 spaces.

    When cover more spaces like this, the game is a lot faster. You can easily have a monopoly game done within the hour instead of playing the real way & waste 6 or more hours.

23. OMG! This has to my overall favorite video of all time with Tom. Also makes me realize how much I’ve come along in my board gaming hobby.

24. I think the problem is growing up in a western household meant you were playing board games your parents (or grandparents!) played, and you figured that's what board games had to offer. Unfortunetly, a lot of those games were luck based. I had so many copies of Monopoly and Risk, and once I started playing actual board games, I got rid of nearly all of them. Ticket to Ride was my gateway board game.

25. When someone brings out monopoly during a board game meetup, I want to pull my hair out lol

26. Monopoly is like Scarface. Everyone knows it's 99% shitty and boring, but we keep pretending it's legendary.

27. Monopoly is a drinking game

28. One idea to try and make Monopoly more strategic is for rolling 2 dice with different numbers, you have the option of moving the larger of the two dice. If you choose that, then the next player has the option of moving either the smaller dice or whatever they roll (unless they roll doubles, then they have to reroll, and then they can pick to move the smaller of the 2 dice from the previous player).

29. Lol I could never stand Monopoly. So boring.

30. What I hate about monopoly is that it single-handedly turned me off to board games for most of my life.

31. Monopoly was fun as a child because I felt like I had money, that I was making my own purchases, and felt like I was getting rich (if winning). There was also the thrill of throwing dice and excitement of maybe evading a property my father owned with a hotel on it. Once I got older, I realized the game was not fun at all. It is like going back and watching cartoons or tv shows that you really enjoyed as a child and then realizing that they were very cheesy and cringey.

32. Ok, folks, I am SICK of people that complain to me about Monopoly, then when I ask them why they don't like the game, they invariably demonstrate that they don't play by the actual rules as described in the game! It's right there in the title: It's a real estate trading game. You don't have a Free Parking "jackpot". The object of the game is NOT to have the most money, it's to be the last player remaining in the game. As the game progresses, there is supposed to be less and less money available for the players. The game is designed to split up the color groups so that you have to trade with each other. If you won't trade, sure the game bogs down – but that's not the fault of the game, that's on YOU. A four-player game of Monopoly should last less than two and a half hours. Otherwise, you're misplaying the game in one or more ways. Dissing Monopoly based on your misbegotten ruleset is like saying you don't like steak because of the way it comes out of the microwave oven – you don't put a steak in the microwave! PLEASE, before you complain about Monopoly, make sure you're actually complaining about Monopoly – not the game you and your friends "house ruled". That's not Monopoly. Read the rules and give the game a chance by playing it the way that it's supposed to be played – or Go to Jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200, and let those of us who do play the game properly enjoy our sessions. Thank you.

33. I watched Dice Tower in 2016 because I wondered if there was anything other than Monopoly and man it has been a treat since then! Thanks Dice Tower and all the other board game channels!

34. The easiest way to make Monopoly good, is put a time limit on. When family game night comes around, we play house rules and as soon as the first piece is moved, we set an alarm for 90 mins. Once that 90 min is over, we all make sure the number of rolls are equal between players that are left in, then we count. All money, mortgage value of properties and half price of all houses/hotels. Can make the last 10 mins very tense, still luck based but also when it hits around 45 mins, people start panicking and throw caution to the wind and make more risky trades. I always enjoy Monopoly for these reasons.

    Edit: Strikes a nice balance, players are eliminated but never sat around too long. Makes watching for only 30 mins or so still enjoyable. Mostly gets down to only 2 players but have had close 3 ways (we usually play with 6 or 7 starting)

    Edit 2: You do get some dead games where you get nothing going, but I think that is more down to the number of players we have rather than anything to do with time limit

35. But have you tried Communopoly like the lads at No Rolls Barred? In Stalinist Russia, board game play you.

36. Look at this socialist comment section! Where are all my capitalists at? 😅

37. Yeah, I hate monopoly too. If I ever WANT to play a super long game that brutally grinds my every nerve, I'll play Arkham Horror, because at least there you have group strategizing and solidarity.

    As an adult I only played monopoly once. And I gave up, because I was too broke to actually make any real decisions, one opponent owned most of the next strip, and it was 2 in the morning. And I feel validated because it took another 2 hours to finish the game after I left. XD

38. No

39. I have old mnopoly

40. I never watch this video 😊

41. What are we watting for

42. Grrra

43. Monopoly has no finite end and can drag on forever . Boring looking based more on luck than skill .I will not play this game

44. There is a correct way of playing Monopoly. It's called Monopoly DEAL.

45. Your mean… Just joking. I like Monopoly because in WW2 the British sent care packages to Nazi prisioner camps to aide in escape papers, train tickets etc. I think Monoply came out in 1935 so I would hope they came out with more sophisticated games since then. Being a gamer sice 1965 I have seen amazing upgrades since then. Fist big changer for me started in the 70's. I started in Wargames 1965 the counters were pink & blue. The map boards were 4 colors and 4 page rule books. In 1970 the came out with Panzerblitz. Better color counters with armor silhouettes, more complicated rules an multi color geomorphic map boards. At the time I was blown away. How they are today is amazing. So I think it is a little unfair comparing something that came out 1935 with something that comes out today specialy when we now have computers.

46. How dare you hate my favorite board game! plastic houses and hotels are good, the “put money on free parking” thing is unnecessary, the title deed cards now show their “color set” rent value,have you heard of simplification? Hasbro’s using it in the modern monopoly, and finally the house rules MAKES THE GAME LOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEERERRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

47. im glad there is player elimination so i can leave

48. we agree, tom.

49. The only game I hate more than Monopoly is Uno.

50. This is cathartic for me. I tried to play Anti-Monopoly a while ago because I got it for free and my mom wanted to play it since we thought it might be a fun different take on Monopoly, and it was just suffering, even worse than actual Monopoly.

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