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Chemopoly
periodic table chemistry theme Monopoly | |
Replace the properties on the monopoly board game with
elements from the periodic table, then players can buy up the
most useful common ones to create simple compounds, or more
complex item carbo-hydrates that require multiple purchases of
Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen.
Assembling something
like MDMA (C11.H16.N1.O2) would require
repeated purchases of Carbon and Hydrogen, but once gathered
you can sell ecstacy and make even more money in the game by
being assigned as a Drug Dealer. Every aspect of the traditional
game would be suplanted with a Chemistry/Physics equivalent.
Buy an Iron Ore Mine instead of the Water Works. Pick up a card
that says: "Your land has been poisoned by Monsanto's Agent
Orange and you have to pay a giant clean up bill to The Bank".
The game could be enhanced with all sorts of pitfalls like toxic
spills; explosions and supply chain problems, but also rewards:
"You have discovered a new superconducting mineral - collect
20,000 from The Bank".
Naturally the small metal players which navigate the board would
also be redesigned to appropriately reflect the theme, to include:
a bunsen burner; the head of Nobel; a water molecule; a boiling
tube; a set of scales etc.
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I find this idea very fascinating. + As I do most of your posts.
Yay. |
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What if you get landed with a bunch of short-lived Actinides ? By the time you've worked out what you can make with them, they'll have decayed into something else. |
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The 'sets' of properties in Monopoly should
correspond to groups in Chemopoly - e.g. "Oh no! I've
landed on the Lanthanides!" or "Agh! I've landed on
the Noble Gases and now I can't do anything!" |
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Oh, but you can ... balloons, airships, gas-discharge signs, double glazing, welding ... and Xenon is an excellent anaesthetic. |
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Everything is an excellent anaesthetic, in sufficient
quantity - in the same way that all varieties of
mushroom are edible, once. |
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Four stations -> four states of matter; Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma (Including Bose-Einstein Condensate would require a pentagonal board). |
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Go, Jail, Free Parking, Go to Jail ... hmmmm. |
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There are 18 groups in the Periodic Table, but only 8 sets of streets on a Monopoly board. Some adjustment may be required. Four sets of streets per side would probably be enough. |
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I also designed a Quantumopoly Game, but that's for
another time and place. |
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Heisenbergian uncertainty will only allow you to precisely specify one of the two parameters. |
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Besides, the game would be unplayable, since looking at the board would collapse its wave function, resulting in a change of state, so you'd be making decisions on the basis of information you knew to be invalid. |
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Einstein said "God does not play dice with the Universe". But maybe he does play Monopoly... |
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//Go, Jail, Free Parking, Go to Jail ... hmmmm// B.Sc, post-doc, university lectureship, completion of PhD. |
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You could play this game all of the time, and still only be playing periodically. |
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You're just compounding the problem. This time, the solution isn't elementary. |
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We should probably table that for later though. |
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Sounds like the start of an potentially interesting game.
The only flaw is basing it on Monopoly. There are SO MANY
board games that are much more fun than Monopoly. So
why are there so many themed versions of Monopoly? |
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That's the bigpharma effect, the very best avian cancer drugs are developed and tuned in-house to perform exceptionality well on tropical parrots of all hues and variations - thus the Chemo therapy drugs are released from a single corporation for Poly's benefit. |
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<Obligatory Parrot Sketch Reference/> |
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// Besides, the game would be unplayable, since looking at
the board would collapse its wave function, resulting in a
change of state, so you'd be making decisions on the basis of
information you knew to be invalid. // |
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That doesn't make it unplayable. It just makes it a more
interesting game. Antichamber, Echochrome, A Slower
Speed of Light, etc., are all playable. |
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// //Go, Jail, Free Parking, Go to Jail ... hmmmm// B.Sc,
post-doc, university lectureship, completion of PhD// |
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Hmm, Jails have rules regarding maximum number of work
hours, minimum outside time and access to natural
light/fresh air and guarantees regarding food. |
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Shhh ... don't let Ph.D. students hear that, if they realize they're better off in jail where will the next batch of junior lecturers come from ? |
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Is that ironic or covalent? |
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It doesn't matter - just make sure you use a condom. Sharing electrons can result in all sorts of bad outcomes... |
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