Monopoly Board Game

CUSTOMER REVIEW



Chances are that you've already played Monopoly once or twice in your life, so I'll skip most of the well known details such as it's a great game for 4 or more players both old and young. Anyways the quality of the board and game pieces are about the same as previously released Monopoly boxes. The only big differences are the new cat token and the speed die as well as new rules related to it. My guess is that the speed die was introduced since the most common complaint about Monopoly is that the game takes too long to finish. However you really don't need the speed die if you played using the official rules involving property auctions. Specifically, if a player lands on property and fails to buy it, that property immediately goes to public auction for all the players to bid on with a minimum starting bid price that is way below the normal property selling price. This makes the game finish much faster.



Personally, I find it more enjoyable to play the themed versions of Monopoly though they tend to cost more (even though most of the time, the rules are the same and the differences are just cosmetic):



Monopoly: South Park Collector's Edition



Futurama Monopoly Collector's Edition



Monopoly The Simpsons Edition



SpongeBob Squarepants Edition Monopoly



Monopoly Hello Kitty



Monopoly Family Guy



Star Wars The Clone Wars Monopoly



If you can find them and you like playing Monopoly a lot, the better quality sets are better as well. They have nicer looking and more durable game pieces. Of course, they cost more as well.