Been a while since I’ve played any board games. When I do it just tends to be Monopoly. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a board game have such an auction function. I wish monopoly only last 6 rounds hehe. Very nice man I’m glad it turned out longer than you expect. I don’t often see board game reviews so I found this very refreshing.
Interesting point: If you read the rules, Monopoly has an auction in it, which actually makes the game much quicker. It's still a very poor game, but it is improved with removing all the cultural house rules.
If you enjoy board games, there's quite a lot of new things out there to try.
hehe ya I never really read the rules for monopoly we just had our own house rules. Had make our own money too we ran out haha. A game would go on for like a week.
In our house it was very much the same. So many of the house rules are generations old, and the parents teaching kids how to play weren't even taught by people that had read the rules. We just know how to play.
This guy is where I am with Monopoly these days, but back when we were kids, 5 player family games were a 1-2 evening setting, or an entire afternoon. Not so great for the first eliminated, but dad still holds our record of being eliminated in under 15 minutes. His plus side to that though was that he holds our comeback record, from just the orange set when head to head started to winning the game. Fun was had, but there are many better games out there these days. Just a bit of a list (they also have a post on why you should play it with kids too...)
I still think everyone needs to experience it, mostly so they can recognize what is good and bad in the game, but most of the basic concepts can be gathered from other games
I have been undefeated for so many years now I'm kind of glade I stop playing it. I'm hoping when some of my younger relatives get a bit older I will get to play and teach them. I have plans to purpose lose and let one of them have the honor of beating me. I have a winning streak of 30 games perhaps. That was mostly due to house rules and I think it be kind of funny to let someone's kid beat me when there parents have not been able to for years on end hehe.
You ever use discord?
I'm probably undefeated for 20 years, but then it's been about that since I played, so... (but I did share the wins with my mum in our family games growing up). Definitely would be amusing to let a new player beat you. Even more amusing if it's in a game with their parents too.
I'm on discord all the time (PAL and the other Aussie server), but I am often distracted and wander away. I do come back to check mentions though, and answer PMs. (same username)
Nice I think my recorded has to be something like that as well. I'm sure when I was real young they let me win. Than later on they could not take me down even when teaming up hehe. Go go red properties. People would love getting those or greens before I did.
I always loved the Orange and Red corner, but would also like the light blue and purples. That half of the board always was good value for money. And of course the stations