Playing a "friendly" game of Monopoly always sounds like a good idea when you first start, but than your two hours in and offering to give your money to other players just to be done! Monopoly has decided to take this fun friendly game, and make it truly never-ending. I introduce you to Monopoly's "Longest Game Ever" edition, which make me think the only way to ever get out of playing the game once your two hours into it is "accidently" bumping the table and knocking the entire game on the floor! The board has double spaces around the board, with 66 properties and only one dice so you can’t earn another turn by rolling a double, and it can’t end until every single property on the board has an owner. Bankruptcy won’t even help you escape. Pus, you’re not allowed to auction off any property, so if a set of properties is split between players there’s no way to rectify that.
And Monopoly certainly seems to know how to market the game, with the cover of the box featuring the Monopoly man asleep on a tortoise while holding an alarm clock.
- As for who would want to play this way, that’s anybody’s guess, but it doesn’t exactly get glowing reviews online. As one person noted, “I played this once and it took six and a half years to complete. When finished, my baby was all grown up and my dog had died.” And as another shared, “Is this a good game? No. Is it a great way to punish unruly children? Yes.”
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