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Monopoly and Google maps mashup

pompomtom — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:01:58 -0800

Tomorrow, Monopoly City Streets begins, introducing a world-wide game combining google maps and the classic family fight-starter. Buy any street in the world, build houses, hotels and more. Remember, property always goes up, and your siblings always cheat.

You Have Won Second Prize In A Beauty Contest. Collect $10.

amyms — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:47:21 -0800

Have you ever gotten stuck in a never-ending game of Monopoly? Turns out the game wouldn't take so long if we didn't play with so many made-up rules. There are many different variations of house rules. Some people even make up their own extreme game. The official Monopoly rules are posted at Monopoly Collector, which also has game history and facts, as do the Monopoly pages at Hasbro. If you're into statistics, Durango Bill has an excellent article on Monopoly probabilities. Also related, old-style Monopoly card illustrations. And just for fun, check out "Monopoly Cards We'd Like To See" at Dribble Glass. Or, make your own Chance and Community Chest cards at Sign Generator.

Monopoly Hacks

Saucy Intruder — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 14:50:56 -0800

A canonical list of Monopoly house rules.

This is so ghetto.

bhayes82 — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 15:27:15 -0800

This Monopoly parody is causing quite a fuss among "black leaders". Is it a stereotype of the "ghetto life" image the media shows us? Sure. But is this game (and the "ghetto life" image) a stereotype that you connect directly to dark-skinned people, as the clergymen seem to think?

Monopoly Odds

srboisvert — Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:02:09 -0800

Monopoly Stats. Now you can play the odds [via boingboing.net]

RobertLoch — Fri, 28 Jun 2002 06:20:11 -0800

Create your own Monopoly Game Surely the perfect customised gift? You can change the name of the game, the theme, the name of the properties/stations, and also the rules. Apparently it uses a 'What You See Is What You Get Realtime Interface', which allows users to personalise the game completely to their requirements, and then print out and proof the new design. What I find most interesting about this product offering is that the whole process is completely automated. Once you've designed and ordered your customised game, it goes straight to print/production, and is then sent out to you. No human intervention is required. This appears to me to be pretty ground breaking stuff (well in the Toy World anyway), or am I just way behind the times? (via the Ecademy discussion list)

tiaka — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:08:41 -0800

You loose, but it's not your fault. I wonder if a winter edition of monopoly will come out because of this.

baylink — Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:21:27 -0800

Wow! Non-election related news. Courtesy of Linux Weekly News (which came out this morning), a picture of the new ".com" version of Monopoly. Did they get the companies in the order of priority you would have expected?