4/10/2024 0 Comments Monopoly tournament rules![]() The Rules that people ignore make the game longerĪlmost every rule in Monopoly is designed to move or remove money. Fun times! But as I mentioned above it doesn’t have to be that way, and there are a lot of things players do that create this problem and make it much worse. ![]() Just like with real capitalism, one player accumulates an insurmountable lead and then can leverage their vast wealth to slowly squeeze the life out of everyone else, making the back half or two thirds of the game a grim slog toward inexorable defeat. One of the biggest issues with Monopoly is that so often you know who has won LONG before the end of the game. If we factor that in, the full metric becomes: While is less than, the game is better the closer is to. Games where a winner is determined early and half the play time is a foregone conclusion, or games where players in losing positions can rarely, if ever, catch up are bad.įor Monopoly though there’s also another important factor to consider, which is. That is, the longer the outcome of the game is in doubt, the better the game is likely to be. Specifically, the most important test for me is this: The closer is to the better the game is. As you might have guessed from my weekly columns on the intricacies of the rules of Warhammer 40k, I’m a really fun person, so I like to apply some basic arithmetic to determine which games I like to play. Okay so other than the whole “this is miserable” thing I’d like to establish some sort of framework for how I personally judge board games (or games in general) when determining whether they’re worth my time.
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