Talk:Monopoly/House Rules

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This article has been transwikied from House rules of Monopoly.
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Clean-up?
This page looks really ugly to me. Who am I, though? All the same, would anyone want to try to make it more legible, or would anyone want me to attempt it? There are, I think, too many "Some house rules...". If there's another way to put it, I'll be glad to clean it up myself. -- D. F. Schmidt 09:22, August 10, 2005 (UTC)


 * On Wikipedia this was originally a very brief section that was then split out of the main Monopoly article, so it's not written in an instructional way. I'm sure there will be some clever way to organise them together into groups. I've made a start on this, but feel free to improve on it. :) GarrettTalk 11:57, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Thoughts for Consideration
Unlike the author of the book, THE MONOPOLY BOOK c. 1974, Maxine Bradley who claims that Monopoly is perfect and does not need any changes or improvements and that bedtime story that Darrow invented the game of MONOPOLY I believe the following:

Because Elizabeth Magie invented two games a] the Landlord Game and b] the basic monopoly game circa 1903 [see Arden DE Woolery board with the letters showing the groupings of the properties to form a monopolies ... that this was the starting point of what I call "folk monopoly" .. it was played extensively through the years until about 1932. There are several things which Dr. Ralph Anspach uncovered in his case of Anti-Monopoly versus General Mills, the owner of Parker Brothers in 1974. In 1983 the Supreme Court of the United States confirmed that the game of "folk monopoly" was played in the early 1920's and 1930's by various persons of different schools and towns and was unsuccessful patented because it was public domain. Dan Layman's Finance game is the monopoly/Finance game developed in 1932. he taught this game to Ruth Hoskins who took the game from Indianopolis back to Atlantic City in December 1930 and this version evolved into the reknown game of MONOPOLY under Hoskins Raifords Harveys thrashing many hours the rules, the fixed prices,'the street names where most of the members happened to live on'... they all wanted to honor someone on the team ... Raiford's prices match up so nicely balanced out Raiford's cloth was spelled correctly with " MARVEN Gardens" but Charles Todd's cloth was misspelled as "MARVIN GARDENS" .. Charles Darrow copied Todd's errors and then marketed the game as MONOPOLY... [Compare that with the unemployed story of Darrow sitting down on a table and remembering all the street names as the old Parker Brothers story was told] After Darrow presented this game to Parker Brothers, PB knew the game was in the public domain and made a corporate decision to privatize the game by applying for a patent and receiving it and getting rid of the cmpetition through lawsuits and secret deals pulled FINANCE, INFLATION, Landlord Game etc. off the market until Dr. Ralph Anspach was sued...

Having said the above story we can now say to all you folks. Let's revive the continued evolution of the folk game of monopoly with house rules and add ons and other things... in 1985 there was a little book put out called BEYOND BOARDWALK AND PARK PLACE ... Changing the utilities to Railroads and buy at double the list price ... or put it up for auction .. on thinking about this one, you can now understand the folk game of monopoly could easily be revived ...

Re: The strange rule of $500 in the middle for landing on Free Parking.

The Landlord's Game Patent of 1904 shows the square of Central Park Free sharing its space with the Poorhouse... is one I can trace to the patented rules of the game which states Public Park [Central Park Free? DL]: A player may stop is the "Public park" without paying anything. Poorhouse: If at stay time, a player has no money with which to meet expenses and has no property upon which he can borrow, He must go to the Poorhouse and remaun there until he makes such throws as will enable him to finish the round.

The printed version of 1910 now redated to 1906 states

Rule 10 - CENTRAL PARK is supposed to be maintained by public funds, therefore a player may stop in it, without paying anything.

Rule 12 - Poor House - If anytime a player has not enough money to pay his expenses, and cannot borrow any [see rule 16] or cannot sell or mortgage any of his property, he must go to the POOR HOUSE, where he remains until his next turn. THEN He throws again AND MOVES OUT IF HE CAN AFFORD TO MAKE THE MOVE.

New Ideas for consideration: When a player lands on a mortgaged property he pays 1/2 the rent owed on the property to the BANK. For example if someone has a mortgaaged property renting for $20 the bank collects $10 from the renter and the person mortgaging it collects NOTHING. If you are the one who mortgaged it you must pay $10 as well if you land on it. You also Mortgage the houses on the property rather than sell them at 1/2 the purchase price to the bank before mortgaging the property... For example if New York Avenue has a hotel sitting on it the bank would collect $ 500 rent from any player including the owner who mortgaged it in the first place. Any player may elect to buy the mortgaged property as follows:

Proper deed card  $100

4 houses $50 each $200

1 hotel $50

Total $350 plus $ 35 or $385 to get the property unmortgaged.

Thus this player may wind up with a single property with a hotel on it regardless of whether he owns the other two colour properties in the series. Add Cards in Chance/Community Chest as follows:

1 or 2 cards each 0f  "Builders On Strike - All property owners pay $10 to the Bank extra to build new houses. Effective until all players pass GO."

Up to 4 cards each of "Bank Foreclosure - Give up 1 property or 1 House or Hotel to the bank immediately"

1 or 2 each of "Bankruptc - hand All properties to the Bank and Restart from Go with $1000"

With these cards comes one more rule - to leave the game permanently you must be bankrupted by a player, not the card itself It also is possible to go bankrupt even though you may have houses on the property and don't owe money to anyone and have to start all over with a 2nd chance.

By adding these ards to Both Chance and Community Chest will mamke a more interesting game to play.

Building properties
"According to some house rules, you are able to buy houses and hoard them in order to prevent others from winning"

Don't read this part- This is the entire purpose of the game and I don't see how it could be considered a house rule. Unless Someone can point me to a rule saying you cant buy and keep properties this should be deleted or moved to strategy or something.

EDIT: I've just realized they were saying houses, not properties. This is still not really AGAINST rules but it does fit here better than I originally thought. Washyleopard (discuss • contribs)