Different versions of monopoly
1. What is a monopoly?
Many people played monopoly when they were young, but they only had a vague idea of what kind of game it was. Monopoly is a multi-player strategy board game. Because in the game, players always buy land to build houses, so they are also called real estate tycoons.
First of all, there is no distinction between high and low in the game, and monopoly is not cheap at all.
The game is very simple, that is, throwing dice around the map, buying land and building houses at various locations. If other players stay on your site, they will pay you a toll. Game currency flows between players and banks. When a player has no assets, it means bankruptcy.
After bankruptcy, players will quit the game. If there is only one player left on the spot, that player wins. In addition to the grid representing the land, there are also grids that trigger random events and some specific events (such as going to jail and paying taxes). Random events may make you a small profit, or they may make you lose money. I remember once drawing an event of "paying taxes on my own property". I was so hurt that my cousins who played games with me made me laugh. Because the game has entered a white-hot stage, everyone has a lot of real estate, no matter who draws this card, they have to "cut the meat."
Second, the fun of monopoly
If you have enough money in the game, all you have to do is throw dice and "buy from buy buy". When we play games, we get a lot of original capital. Generally, we walk around the map twice, and we will be able to buy land and houses. So there is no strategy. It's more like a game of luck. Bad luck, I missed the valuable real estate in the early stage, but I passed other people's expensive hotels, so it is easy to go bankrupt.
Personally, I feel that its interest is mainly reflected in the following three points:
In the process of the game, you can experience the happiness of "Buy in buy buy". This is a game, and we have enough game currency to basically win the real estate we encounter in full. I just realized now that I am also a person who has "experienced the happiness of the rich".
The frequency of arousing happiness is very high. In the middle and late period, the map is full of real estate, either yours or other players'. Every time we throw dice, we are frightened, because in most cases, we either enter other people's territory or our own territory. If you enter other people's territory, you will be depressed; When you enter your own site, you can breathe a sigh of relief, and then plan to upgrade your real estate and "entertain" other players. When others enter their own territory, we can happily collect tolls.
Full of mystery. There is also a grid of mysterious events on the map. If we go there, we can trigger mysterious events. The events inside are both beneficial and unfavorable to the players. Either way, it can promote the player's dopamine secretion.
Third, personal experience
Perhaps I like Monopoly so much because it played a very important role in my childhood. My family is ordinary, and I live in a small place, so I couldn't get in touch with those so-called "high-end" board games when I was a child. I have been exposed to board games with cards (poker, game king, Three Kingdoms Kill), various kinds of chess (Go, Gobang, Chess, Colosseum, Flying Chess), and Monopoly. Like dozens or hundreds of boxes of board games in board game shops now, I never touched them before I went to college. After that, monopoly still stood out in many games.
No matter monopoly or other board games, if you can play regularly, buying a box of games must be much cheaper than going to a board game shop. But as we grow up, fewer and fewer people can play with us. Then you will find that board games are never extravagant, but the people who play with you are extravagant. Maybe monopoly or other childhood board games are not necessarily more fun than other games, but at that time, your friends were all around you.