Monopoly Rules

We played Monopoly the other night--it was pretty funny. We had to use Matt's rules, and there are only five, so it's pretty simple.

1) He gets all of the blue money. He has the entire stack of blue $50 bills. He does not share them nor do they circulate. He does not buy property with them. Every time he rolls and moves his piece, he puts one of them in a separate pile.

2) He picks everyone's pieces. You have to watch closely, because he reserves the right to change your piece in the middle of the game, sometimes in the middle of your turn. He did allow Katie to keep her piece though.

3) He always rolls snake eyes or double sixes. Every time. If the dice don't fall that way, they need to be adjusted until they do.

4) He moves his piece around the board until he is 'ahead' of everyone else. His piece always lands on a Railroad or the Chance square (It's a question mark that looks like a big 7, which I think is his favorite number after 5).

5) If someone builds a house, he builds a fire station. Since he does not buy property or part with his bills, he puts it anywhere he pleases and it costs him nothing.

If you follow those simple special Thompson house rules, you can have a pretty good game with the four of us. Although Karen continues to pay me as often as possible in one dollar bills, simply because she knows I hate dealing with the one dollar bills--I prefer to round everything to a five dollar sum. And when Katie was banker, she kept discovering $500 bills buried deep in her pile of money.

Ryan wrote this one.