Hi Charles, Definitely much less. I think a standard version of Monopoly goes for $20 and sometimes cost a little more if it is a promotional version. I once saw a Monopoly set for $40, but what made it so expensive is that it was electronic. What I mean by that is you could put batteries in the board and when you set the houses on the board they would light up like a little town or city which was pretty cool. However, no mainstream copy of Monopoly ever costs $75 unless it is a rare collectors edition. Otherwise figure $20 to $30 range on average.
Scrabble costs even less. i think the last time I was looking at games at Wal-Mart Scrabble was only like $12. Its not very expensive at all. For the price the accessible versions cost its cheaper to buy the basic Scrabble game and just slap braille labels on the pieces. Which is what i do most of the time anyway. For example, I have several different versions of Monopoly. Most of them have special movie or show themes so are slightly different from the basic versions. I have the Star Wars Monopoly game where you have little tokens of Luke, Han, Chewie, etc and instead of houses you have x-wings and tie fighters. I have the Lord of the Rings set with minature tokens of the main characters, and instead of houses you build towers and fortresses. The Star Trek: Next Generation set is really unique because its basically a huge map of the Enterprise and you go around buying up pieces of the Enterprise. How's that for strange? Anyway, since I know i can't buy accessible versions of those games I just buy them and braille them myself. Its no big deal to take a sheet of braille label, write up a list of the properties, and have my wife stick them on the board. Brailling the cards, money, etc is also pretty easy. it is time consuming, but otherwise fairly straight forward. Cheers! On 6/8/12, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote: > Now if the board games that are produced were less expensive! $75 for a > Monopoly set? $60 or so for Scrabble? How much does a game of similar > quality cost for sighted gamers? > > --- > Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
