Talk:Monopoly (game)

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Contents 1 Online Monopoly? 2 Deletion discussion for Board Templates 3 Print your own Monopoly money 4 Stock Exchange 5 Not a house rule?

[edit] Online Monopoly?

Is Monopoly played online anymore? PlaySite.com had it a few years ago, but then got rid of it and Games.com got it, along with a bunch of other board games. But then all those board games disappeared. Sohcahtoa1982 (talk) 19:13, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion discussion for Board Templates

I have listed the 2 templates for the boards, which are trademarked, for deletion as copyright violations. For those who have interest in the Monopoly page, you may want to review the TfD at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 March 6. Since the templates for deletion seem to get overlooked compared to the AfD, I wanted to mention it here as well. Slavlin (talk) 23:23, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Print your own Monopoly money

Parker Bros. has free PDFs to download for printing the original style Monopoly money. http://www.hasbro.com/games/kid-games/monopoly/default.cfm?page=StrategyGuide/gametools —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bizzybody (talk • contribs) 19:22, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Stock Exchange

Under the stock exchange portion of the article, it says, "Should the player decline, the 1936 rules explicitly state that an auction is held for the privilege of purchasing a share, and this would appear to imply that the winner of the auction for that privilege then pays the regular price for the share chosen after winning the auction." However upon looking at the source, I found no such sentence even remotely saying that. In fact, the source says, "If the player declines the option, the Banker immediately offers this OPTION for sale at Auction and sells it to the Highest Bidder." The article is wrong as written now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.213.243.154 (talk) 14:15, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Not a house rule?

This was listed under house rules- "If a player lands on somebody's property and the owner doesn't realize that they own it, and either the owner (if it's their turn) or another player rolls the dice, the owner cannot make a retroactive claim for rent - a bit harsh, if a player's eyesight or literacy skills are somewhat impaired."

I recall that being part of the official rules, so I checked and found this as part of the official rules: "The owner may not collect the rent if they fail to ask for it before the second player following throws the dice."

I think the listing under house rules is somewhat misleading. While the official rules gives a slightly longer grace period (two players rolling the dice, rather than one) there is still no retroactive claim for rent allowed after that. Perhaps I'm biased, but the official rule as written was a very important one in the family games I played as a kid, because invariably you had a player who wouldn't pay attention to the game at all and had to be punished somehow, this rule was perfect for that. 68.238.166.52 (talk) 03:49, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Actually that is a house rule which replaces the official rule that a player must claim money due before the second person following rolls the dice. Assume A lands on somebody's property in a game in which the turn sequence is A, B, C, D. According to this house rule, the owner must demand payment before B rolls the dice. According to the official rules, the owner must demand payment before C rolls the dice. Nibios (talk) 04:31, 29 May 2008 (UTC)