One of the games I still miss was based on the monopoly concept.
You were trying to become the presidant of a company.
if you failed you would become the cleaner.
It was visual but I got materials and designed a board with cardboard
and foil and with some braille dice and cards and some monopoly
tokens was able to play.
The game was called ulsas but I never played it more than twice
before things got hectic.
To be honest, I played all my games before 2000, before 1995 for 5
years I had almost no pc and then only a 386.
in 1996 I got a pc but still was able to play.
after 2002 or there abouts that got less till now.
I have an xp system and a win7 system.
everyone has tablets and phones.
I think if there was a way to turn off all devices and the net I'd do it again.
But there is email, social network, online games and sometimes I find
myself just happily mucking round on youtube or slothing round on the
pc when I know I shouldn't.
I have tried to keep my reading alive but the scary thing is I could
happily stop reading braille in fact stop doing everything I used to
do when taught how to be blind to use the net.
It may actually happen with others.
Family that used to have time to play afterwork are so tired after
looking at a screen all day they want to blob.Ofcause computer games
are ofcause more superior than the crappy board ones, yet I still miss it.
When the only thing you could hear would be the weather outside, when
all you did in the next hour or less was get another coffee.
That doesn't happen so much.
And sadly a lot born into this age of consoles and other things may
never play a game in their lives.
I know, my cousins were born into the borg universe.
They adapted a lot.
They have played a few ugio games and some monopoly but most of it is
simply the computer.
They would probably play all night and day if they were not told to
get off their consoles.
Its why I made an effort to stay off social networks but much as I
have tried, most of what I do is to be online all day and all night.
Something new always comes up and when there isn't I end up mucking
round chewing bandwidth listening to stupid vids, but not being able
to get off again really.
Some days like today the net calms down enough for me to think of
times gone by.
At 06:01 AM 12/4/2013, you wrote:
Hi Charles,
It is interesting that when I was a boy and we played Monopoly, we
removed the auction rule completely.
The only way to buy a property was to land on it.
This lead to lots of buying on the first two or there go around and
then a lull as no one had money to buy properties. Eventually you
could only trade if you had a property someone else wanted and you
had one that they wanted.
Phil
----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Rivard" <wee1s...@fidnet.com>
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The official rules are that, if a property is landed on that has
not been bought, it is immediately auctioned off, and everyone can
bid on it. Strategy can come into play. If you know that nobody
else can pay a given amount for the property, and that amount is
less than the printed price of the property, and you are wealthy,
put it up for auction and bid the price they cannot afford and get
it for less. If you know that someone needs that property to have
a monopoly, and you are wealthy, either raise the bid to more than
they can afford or make them pay through the nose for it, which
will give you a better winning possibility later on by breaking them.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "dark" <d...@xgam.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 7:07 AM
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Hi Jim.
I know you had that rule change in your game, it's just one which
has always confused me a little as to it's logic.
I can see the point of auctions for properties landed on and not
bought, though to be honest I don't particularly like that rule
myself, since I prefer the strategic game of people choosing sets
and completing them rather than just forcing sales as quick as
possible. I can see the point if you want to speed the game up,
but I prefer the slower game myself.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Kitchen" <j...@kitchensinc.net>
To: "dark" <Gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Some practical questions reguarding the
Monopoly game
Hi Dark,
Money on free parking is not an official rule, but it is a
popular variation that allot of people like to play with. I have
that option in my game of monopoly. I also have where you do or
do not collect rent if you are in jail as well as an option for
an auction for a property that is landed on, but not bought.
BFN
Jim
"Monopoly? No, we just don't want competition" --Intel
j...@kitchensinc.net
http://www.kitchensinc.net
(440) 286-6920
Chardon Ohio USA
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