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Toll Bridge Monopoly consists of two complete Monopoly
Game sets, with one additional feature: a toll bridge
that
can connect them together.
Each of the two games also acts like a separate country
with corresponding city locations, unique banknotes and
legislation variables.
In its
most effective version, there are two teams of
players engaged in each of the two separate games and
at
the outset, they agree on the rules of how the new toll
bridge feature is to be used.
These rules include the bridge being offered for sale as a
very expensive utility that extracts a toll from everyone
who lands on it; or it can force those landing on it to
cross
over into the other game; or it can deliver the option of
deciding to cross over to the other game. (on payment of
a
toll to the bank)
In one version this conveys an advantage, as those
crossing
the bridge in either direction are treated as tax exiles on
the "other side's game" regardless of their direction of
travel, but if they get into trouble, they can be
extradited
to their original game and any property they have
acquired
repossessed etc.
In another version, those forced across the bridge
because
they landed on it, are treated as unwelcomed aliens and
subjected to punative rents etc as long as they remain in
the other game.
Once "crossed over", each player's rotation around the
other board is also reversed to that of an anti-clockwise
direction.
Toll Bridge Monopoly is only slightly more complex than
the
original version, but it offers many comparable features
to
that of two adjoining countries engaged in commerce
and
the movement of people, finance, and investments.
The Three Stooges get ready to put out a fire!
https://www.youtube...watch?v=LOfsNiQxfAo
Cameo from the film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. [DrBob, Feb 22 2019]
Securitized_20Monopoly
[calum, Feb 22 2019]
[link]
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Different from the Thatcheropoly version, where everything - including Free Parking, Jail and the Bank - were progressively privatized during the course of the game. But [+] anyway. |
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Connecting two Monopoly boards with a Mousetrap board might be interesting ... |
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Aren't Monopoly & Mousetrap essentially the same game. The only difference being that the latter has the unpredictable elastic band?
Fishbone for xenzag, just because I am bored with Brexit. I'm vindictive like that.
;) |
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Let's hope that brexit helps you out of your misery.
That way it does a good thing for everyone. |
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It's not so much Brexit itself, bad as it is. In my mind one bunch of faceless bureaucrats running the country is no different to any other, regardless of nationality. It's the constant banging on about it that gets me.
PS: Fishbone withdrawn. ;) |
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I'm with [Bob]. I think that every politician in the country
should simply be taken out and shot. No questions, no
partisanship, no appeals, no party favouritism - just all of
them. Brexit is like watching the Three Stooges try to put out
a fire. |
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// simply be taken out and shot // |
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Practical, but lacks entertainment value. |
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They should be dragged through the streets in tumbrils, chained up, while jeering crowds hurl rotten vegetables, excrement, insults, and broken bottles* at them. Then they should be unloaded in a park, tied to trees, and shot by volley fire with matchlock or flintlock muskets by fully-uniformed re-enactors. |
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It is admittedly more complicated, but we would pay a pound to watch. |
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*Entire bottles tend to bounce off, causing painful but not serious injury. Broken bottles, however, can inflict serious lacerations. |
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This idea is not about brexit. (aside - as I don't
vote, no politician can ever claim endorsement
from me) All politicians are morons, but some are
more moronic than others. Meanwhile, my slogan
for brexit is simple: If you build it they will come;
if you brexit they will leave. |
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glad to hear you don't vote. Any help is appreciated. |
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The problem is of course in voting itself. We need a
heuristic system. |
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No, you need a better electorate. The existing one is clearly not fit for purpose, as they sequentially elect almost identical cliques of complete numpties to positions of authority. |
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> In another version, those forced across the bridge because they landed on it, are treated as unwelcomed aliens and subjected to punative rents etc as long as they remain in the other game. |
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then you may as well just make that square the "instalose" square. Monopoly works because over time the odds somewhat balance out, giving it a hefty dose of strategy. |
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there will never be a better electorate. therefore, you will
never fix that problem. The better electorate ended
sometime in Athens. |
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Ah, but don't forget, the bridge is a two way
connection and so it's not an automatic lose maker,
as all players may cross it in both directions. It just
becomes another component that adds a new
factor. |
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You've got to be joking, shirley ? |
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You'll be the body found half way over the bridge,
so your properties will be liquidised, and that will
be that. |
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This would not do anything to prevent Monopoly being a dull game where the person who buys the orange set and anything else they land on is most likely to win. A bridge between two islands in Settlers of Catan might work, especially if you're allowed to trade across the bridge, but I suspect this is what some of the expansion packs do.
As for Brexit and politicians, we need about 10% of the number of politicians we currently have, and they should be chosen by lottery. |
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See link for previous connections between financially
catastrophic acts and the game Monopoly. |
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Brexit is a stupid thing to do but it is at last in the grand
Great British tradition of the electorate deciding that a
stupid thing to do is a good thing to do. One thing fromt
the scanty list of positives is that the resultant
parliamentary clown car has been instructive: we can see
which of our MPs want to throw the hot turd to the next
person, which of our MPs feel duty bound to carry the
turd and which of our MPs love to fuck fistfuls of dogshit
while singing Rule Britannia. |
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I donno know Hippo - you might own all of the Mayfair hotels on one board but end up getting shipped across the bridge and find the game on the other board sequesters your entire investment at the turn of a chance card. "All alien players are required to surrender the ownership of 50% of their property portfolios across the bridge" |
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Well, I could invent Oneopoly, just for you. It only
has four sqaures on the board, and instead of a
dice there is a coin. Heads = move one square.
Tails
= move two squares. You can invent the rest
yourself. |
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Where do the trolls come into the game? |
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Over the Bridge, from Sweden. Full of trolls, Scandinavia ... |
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Watch out for billy-goats ... |
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//The better electorate ended sometime in Athens// |
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Sorry to disappoint you, [their], but the voters of Classical Athens
displayed vindictiveness, arrogance, short-sightedness and
vacillation, just like those of all the best democracies today. |
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"Wrong sort of people ... " ? |
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