It's an annoying and stupid game. It's all about being a landlord. One or two players are lucky and they are the only ones having a good time. The rest of the players are spending their time losing.
"Well ackshually, Monopoly was originally called 'The Landlord Game' and was all about how landlording was bad" — I don't care, you're still spending an evening pretending to be a landlord to your loved ones. The game is completely unenjoyable because it emulates capitalism too well.
Fuck off with competitive boardgames. Give me games that are merely facilitating having fun and being social and where only nerds keep score, like charades or pictionary .
there was also a different ruleset based on Georgist ideals that was designed to be more fun. it was scrapped when the game was commercialised
I thought it was meant to be rigged and unfun as capitalist critique from a Georgist
yeah, you would play the unfun "landlord's game" first and the fun version after that
Ah interesting.