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Monopoly | 
| Brand: Hasbro
Category: Toy
List Price: $18.99
Buy New: $11.38
as of 3/13/2010 22:26 CST details
You Save: $7.61 (40%)
New (74) Collectible (16) from $3.00
Seller: eSavvy
Rating:  146 reviews
Sales Rank: 268
Format: CD
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 8 - 99 years
Operating System: N/A
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 2.1 x 10.6 x 15.8
Legal Disclaimer: no_warning_applicable
MPN: 000009
Model: 00009 97
UPC: 653569351467
EAN: 0073000000097
ASIN: B00000IWCT
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Classic family board game | | • | A game of luck, chance, and wheeling and dealing | | • | Buy and sell properties in Atlantic City | | • | Corner parts of the board, build houses and hotels, and charge other players exorbitant rent | | • | Includes a new game piece and rules for a shortened version of the game |
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Product Description
Everybody remembers the Monopoly game - that's why it's still the most popular, most widely played, and best-selling board game in the world! Across the generations and around the globe, what other game brings back so many memories of wheeling-and-dealing family fun' No other game has turned so many game playing moments into memories! Whether you're discovering the fun for the first time or reliving the carefree days of youth, get out there and Buy! Sell! Mortgage! Build houses and hotels! And collect those rents! That's what makes Monopoly the great American game - just ask Rich Uncle Pennybags! For 2 to 8 players. Game includes: game board, 10 tokens, title deed cards, play money, chance cards, community chest cards, 32 houses, 12 hotels and two dice.
Editorial Review
In 1934, in the midst of the Great Depression, an unemployed heating engineer from Pennsylvania created the game of Monopoly. Realizing that his get-rich theme might appeal to other Americans, he had the game printed and distributed in a Philadelphia department store. When he couldn't keep up with the overwhelming requests for more sets, he arranged for Parker Brothers to take over the game. And the rest, as they say, is history. But Monopoly is far from a quaint historical relic. To this day, it remains a riveting game of luck, chance, and savvy wheeling and dealing--all of which can make some lucky dog rich, rich, rich! Based on the purchase of Atlantic City real estate (a city currently renowned for its get-rich gambling opportunities), Monopoly is now printed in 26 languages with more than 200 million sets sold worldwide. Players still scoot the same beloved board pieces: the old shoe, the terrier, and the hot rod. This set also includes rules for a shortened version of the game and a new token, winner of Monopoly's recent "design a token" contest. This is capitalism at its most fun and ruthless, a must-have edition in the family game closet. --Gail Hudson
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 146
 My Monopoly Review March 7, 2010
Vivek Jose Mannanal
We had fun as this game will never end.... Good even for 4 people..... cant be played in a larger scale though...
 Monopoly is a piggy Republican game March 3, 2010
P. J. Anderson (Los Angeles, CA)
Monopoly is somewhat educational as far as the business world goes--but ultimately it's a a piggy, greedy Republican game. Don't play it a lot. You'll raise unpleasant kids. [And no, I'm not a Democrat.] Can't American toy makers come up with something more creative than the 1000th version of Monopoly?
 one of the best board games every February 8, 2010
Amy Duxbury (Franklin)
I recently got back into Monopoly and am really loving these new sets. Very nice and a real bargain for all the hours of enjoyment you'll get from it. It's also a great educational lesson for both kids and adults, teaching about investments, passive income, saving, and more. Lots of fun, especially when you have a group of about four players.
There are a lot of versions of this game and this one is the best in my opinion. So classic that it's hard to improve on. :)
monopoly January 31, 2010
pepper11570 (ny)
My nephew really enjoys this game and is learning the value of money. Its a good educational game for thr whole family
If you are annoyed by small "updates," this is not the set for you January 18, 2010
Adam Keiper (Washington, D.C.)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This Monopoly set was cheaply produced in China, as you might guess given its price. For a family looking for a first set, it seems satisfactory. But anyone who has played Monopoly for years should be on notice that this set, redesigned in 2008, includes several minor annoyances.
First, the most practical annoyance. The board folds up into quarters, which allows the manufacturer to fit the set into a smaller box, presumably to reduce production costs. But because the box is somewhat smaller (about 16 inches long), there is no room for the sort of convenient tray for Monopoly money that was once standard in the old boxes (which were about 20 inches long). This is annoying for both gameplay and storage.
Second, the producers have unnecessarily and inexplicably made small changes to the rules of the game -- rules that have stood for more than half a century. Landing on the Luxury Tax space used to cost you $75; now it costs $100. The new rules also change the numbers of each kind of bill to be apportioned to players at the start of the game -- and in fact, the game comes with a smaller supply of some bills.
Mention of this set's Monopoly money brings us to the third annoyance: the manufacturers made numerous gratuitous changes to the look of the game. The palette of colors used for Monopoly bills in the United States since the 1940s has been changed: The $10 bill used to be yellow; now it's blue. The $50 bill used to be blue; now it's purple. (These changes make it hard to reuse money from older Monopoly sets.) Among the other unnecessary changes to the look of the game: The formerly purple properties on the board (Mediterranean Avenue and Baltic Avenue) have been recolored brown. The Community Chest and Chance cards are now printed on white cardstock instead of the familiar orange and yellow, and the classic drawings on those cards have been replaced with computer-generated 3D cartoons. Even the "Go" space has been redesigned: now the word "Go" is written in black instead of the familiar red. (Stodgy purists might also be put off by the various alterations to font, logo, and other design elements.)
To be sure, these changes do not alter the fundamentals of the game itself. But they are annoying enough that anyone with nostalgic memories of the game from childhood should consider a different set.
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