Monopoly - 'Reality' Rules (1 Viewer)

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

This is quite a random thing to post, but due to the never-ending political and economic discussions in here I wondered if anyone else had ever played the game with someone but set it out to be more 'real life' to make a point?

What you do is each piece represents status in life and each gets a different amount to start the game and are chosen at random (whoever you're trying to make a point to gets one of the lowest pieces by default).
For example:
Top hat is upper class and they receive £5000 to start
Car, Horse - upper middle class - £2500 to start
Battleship, Cannon, Dog - lower middle class - £1500 to start
Thimble, Boot, Iron, Wheelbarrow - working class - receive nothing except their 'salary' as they pass Go

*the pieces have changed I know but it's been a long while since I've played the game

You can add even more caveats in to make the disparity more obvious if you want.

I've also made it so that the top hat owner automatically starts with ownership of all the purple (and sometimes green) properties, next level get one property at random from the yellow or red, third gets one from orange or pink, lowest gets no properties at all.

I've also done it so that upper class gets £500 for passing go, next level £300, next £200 and lowest £100. You can also offer the lowest two groups the chance to increase their 'earnings' but they have to give £100 on two consecutive passes of go to up their earnings by £100 up to a maximum of £300. However, if they're sent to jail their earnings will drop back down again.

I've also added in that if no player owns a property you land on and you choose not to buy it, you owe the rent to the banker anyway - after all nothing comes for free.

Can be fun watching a small child bankrupt someone from a privileged background who think the system's absolutely fine and working class people just don't try hard enough in half a dozen moves.

 

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[Grendel]

I assume as well as passing go and getting the lower amounts the underclass get an extra £300 under the board for dodgy earnings and false benefit claims?

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

I assume as well as passing go and getting the lower amounts the underclass get an extra £300 under the board for dodgy earnings and false benefit claims?

If you want. Just make sure that the top class take £500 from the bank everytime as well from the money kept from the tax man in offshore accounts and trusts.

 

[skybluetony176]

You could have a set of Community Chest cards for each class as well.

For upper class you could something like “your children are privately educated and this is subsidised by the plebs, please collect £200 of each working class player”.

“You’re part of numerous tax avoidance schemes, please collect £1000 from the bank”.

 

[shmmeee]

When the working class go bankrupt they can lose the game or borrow money at extortionate interest rates from the upper class.

When the upper class go bankrupt they can either be bailed out by Daddy, or the state (bank).

 

[Sky_Blue_Daz]

They could rebrand it and call it
Social insecurity

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

When the working class go bankrupt they can lose the game or borrow money at extortionate interest rates from the upper class.

When the upper class go bankrupt they can either be bailed out by Daddy, or the state (bank).

I have done that too (100% compound interest every time you pass go, which is cheap by today's payday loans) but by that point thankfully most of the time most are ready to just thrown the towel in. It involves me having to write stuff down and keep a record of what they owe etc and it just becomes a pain in the arse.

 

[Grendel]

You could have a community chest card. Jeremy Corbyn is prime minister.

The utilities and railway stations are doubled in price as it falls into public ownership

All houses are taken off the board as the interest rates double over note. Change currency to the Zimbabwe dollar to reflect huge inflation rises

All the poorer members join the dole queue and sit the rest of the game out

 

[Mild-Mannered Janitor]

Think that’s a chance card Grendel and go to jail should be renamed the boris box

 

[ccfc92]

You could have a community chest card. Jeremy Corbyn is prime minister.

The utilities and railway stations are doubled in price as it falls into public ownership

All houses are taken off the board as the interest rates double over note. Change currency to the Zimbabwe dollar to reflect huge inflation rises

All the poorer members join the dole queue and sit the rest of the game out

But the minimum wage would be £25 per hour, how could hyper inflation possibly occur? :woot:

 

[Mild-Mannered Janitor]

Community chest card - You won third prize in a beauty contest, have as much money as you like towards plastic surgery, Abbott and May were joint winners