Talk:Monopoly/House Rules

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This article has been transwikied from w:House rules of Monopoly.

11:48, 2 August 2005 Poccil

11:47, 2 August 2005 Poccil

12:27, 1 August 2005 MagicBez m (added extra kitty buidling system that i've seen used by various people in the UK)

16:34, 31 July 2005 Poccil

16:32, 31 July 2005 Poccil (removing phrases explaining feasibility of several house rules of Monopoly simply describing them is usually enough)

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00:32, 17 May 2005 The wub (Category:Monopoly)

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11:39, 19 April 2005 Dainamo (Jail rule)

18:38, 28 March 2005 66.92.165.123 (fix typo; change "all three properties" to "all properties")

14:09, 8 March 2005 DesiPsycho (added one more common house rule)

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13:50, 22 December 2004 Susurrus (Spin-off from Monopoly article.)

[edit] Clean-up?

This page looks really ugly to me. Who am I, though? All the same, would anyone want to try to make it more legible, or would anyone want me to attempt it? There are, I think, too many "Some house rules...". If there's another way to put it, I'll be glad to clean it up myself. -- D. F. Schmidt 09:22, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

On Wikipedia this was originally a very brief section that was then split out of the main Monopoly article, so it's not written in an instructional way. I'm sure there will be some clever way to organise them together into groups. I've made a start on this, but feel free to improve on it. :) Garrett^Talk 11:57, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thoughts for Consideration

Unlike the author of the book, THE MONOPOLY BOOK c. 1974, Maxine Bradley who claims that Monopoly is perfect and does not need any changes or improvements and that bedtime story that Darrow invented the game of MONOPOLY I believe the following:

Because Elizabeth Magie invented two games a] the Landlord Game and b] the basic monopoly game circa 1903 [see Arden DE Woolery board with the letters showing the groupings of the properties to form a monopolies ... that this was the starting point of what I call "folk monopoly" .. it was played extensively through the years until about 1932. There are several things which Dr. Ralph Anspach uncovered in his case of Anti-Monopoly versus General Mills, the owner of Parker Brothers in 1974. In 1983 the Supreme Court of the United States confirmed that the game of "folk monopoly" was played in the early 1920's and 1930's by various persons of different schools and towns and was unsuccessful patented because it was public domain. Dan Layman's Finance game is the monopoly/Finance game developed in 1932. he taught this game to Ruth Hoskins who took the game from Indianopolis back to Atlantic City in December 1930 and this version evolved into the reknown game of MONOPOLY under Hoskins Raifords Harveys thrashing many hours the rules, the fixed prices,'the street names where most of the members happened to live on'... they all wanted to hnor so meone on the team ... Raiford's prices match up so nicely balanced out Raiford's cloth was spelled correctly with " MARVEN Gardens" but Charles Todd's cloth was misspelled as MARVIN GARDENS" .. Charles Darrow copied Todd's errors and then marketed the game as MONOPOLY... [Compare that with the unemployed story of Darrow sitting down on a table and remembering all the street names as the old Parker brothers story was told] After Darrow presented this game to Parker Brothers, PB knew the game was in the public domain and made a corporate decision to privatize the game of PARKER BROTHERS by applying for a patent and receiving it and getting rid of the cmpetition through lawsuits and secret deals pulled FINANCE, INFLATION, Landlord Game etc. off the market until Dr. Ralph Anspach was sued...

Having said the above story we can now say to all you folks. Let's revive the continued evolution of the folk game of monopoly house rules and add ons and other things... in 1985 there was a little book put out called BEYOND BOARDWALK AND Park place ... Changing the utilities to Railroads and buy at double the list price ... or put it up for auction .. on thinking about this one, you can now understand the folk game of monopoly could easily be revived ...

The strange rule of $500 in the middle for landing on Free Parking.

The Landlord's Game Patent of 1904 shows the square of Central Park Free sharing its space with the Poorhouse... is one I can trace to the patented rules of the game which states Public Park [Central Park Free? DL]: A player may stop is the "Public park" without paying anything.

Poorhouse: If at stay time, a player has no money with which to meet expenses and has no property upon which he can borrow, He must go to the Poorhouse and remaun there until he makes such throws as will enable him to finish the round.

The printed version of 1910 now redated to 1906 states

Rule 10 - CENTRAL PARK is supposed to be maintained by public funds, therefore a player may stop in it, without paying anything.

Rule 12 - Poor House - If anytime a player has not enough money to pay his expenses, and cannot borrow any [see rule 16] or cannot sell or mortgage any of his property, he must go to the POOR HOUSE, where he remains until his next turn. THEN He throws again AND MOVES OUT IF HE CAN AFFORD TO MAKE THE MOVE.