Choose T.O. for Global Monopoly
I used to love board games as a kid, especially the original Monopoly. There’s just something about the tangibility of the game pieces and the dice and the funny money that is lost when games are played on the computer. Monopoly would keep us entertained for hours. I usually won, but only because I was ruthless - no deals for you!
There are many new versions of Monopoly, including one that functions through the use of debit cards. It supposedly speeds up the time it takes to play the game, but beneficial lessons are lost, like learning to count money and make change, as well as the value of a dollar. If you can’t “see” it as you earn it, you won’t fully appreciate it when it’s gone.
However, a new edition I am excited about is called Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition. This version will incorporate geography by featuring cities from around the globe, and our beloved Toronto is in the running! The cities with the most votes by February 29th will make the final cut, so don’t forget to cast your vote. Click HERE to access the website.
What were your favourite board games as a kid? Do you still play them? Do your children play board games? Have your say by clicking on the No Comments/Comments link below.
Today’s Jack Nation bonus code is MONOPOLY. I’ll bend the rules and give you until Feb. 29th to get it in because I really want T.O. to be included, so tell all your friends. Heck, tell your enemies, too. Why not?
February 21st, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Hey Carly; We played alot of SORRY, TROUBLE, CHECKERS, and my favourite STRATEGO. I’m old now so I play online poker. I voted for TO, lets hope we make it, I see Montreal is right up there.
Keep rockin’ “YOUR” show is great, Jeff makes a nice sidekick, lol.
Carly’s Note: Thanks, Mike. I had forgotten about Trouble. I haven’t gotten into online poker. I once lived with someone who was addicted to it, so I’m afraid - very afraid!
February 21st, 2008 at 5:23 pm
My favorite boardgame is sequence Great game my teenage daughters like blokus. Have you ever played either of those. We played alot of monopoly also but the other games are around 1/2 hr wheras monopoly can go on and on and on…..
Carly’s Note: I don’t know either of those games. I’ll have to look into them.
February 21st, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Risk was a great game and would eat hours of fun unless you were the one getting destroyed! LOL
Carly’s Note: Yeah, it could go on for days. And then it would get knocked over accidentally (or on purpose by someone who was losing) and you’d have to start all over again. Sigh.
February 21st, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Carly,
Thanks for the info on the new Monopoly. I joined so that I could log on and vote each day as it doesn’t count unless you join first!!
I’ve played Monopoly ever since I was a kid. It brings back GREAT MEMORIES of playing with my bestfriend EVERY WEEKEND at our cottage in Mt. Tremblant and even though she could NEVER beat me, she’d still play me and we had our own rules (we thought they were THE RIGHT RULES at the time, only to find out later in life that “free parking” was just a space where you landed and NOTHING happened). In our version, all money collected from picking up either of the 2 pack of cards, (i.e. Commnity Chest) we would put in the middle and when you landed on “have to pay 10% of all your money or $200 to pay taxes” also went into the middle too, so when you landed on “Free Parking” you sure got a lot of money and got you out of a bind if you were mortgaged to death!!! The only thing is that this way of playing the game would make it last for hours and hours, so long sometimes that we would start after we got back from skiing each day and stop for dinner and sometimes have to put it aside overnight to finish it the next day. OH, THE GOOD OLD DAYS!!!
When I asked my fiance to buy me the game as my old one got lost over the years, he did and also bought me the NHL version which he played me first and he lost (SORE LOSER) so it took me 2 years and my Mom agreeing to play to get him to play the original one with me, which is still my favorite!!
I also love the card game “UNO”. Ever play it? It’s fun and if anyone is drinking, it gets even funnier due to all the twists and turns. It wasn’t around when I was a kid, Monopoly, Candyland, Clue, Masterpiece, Chinese Checkers and Master Mind (the latter is a great game!!) were all my favorites amongst many others!! Games are fun and they sure have flooded the market with them these days, it’s just that they’re so more expensive!!!
Carly’s Note: Thanks for reminding me about Uno and Clue. I loved reading Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown mysteries, so Clue was one of my favourites. I actually won on my first turn once - just dumb luck. The girls would fight over who got to be Miss Scarlet. Now I don’t mind being Mrs. Peacock. In the 70’s version, she looks like she’s probably a sarcastic, crusty old broad.
February 21st, 2008 at 8:35 pm
every xmas we go to my sister, and play games non stop. sequence game is great!
Carly’s Note: I don’t know that game. I’ll have to look into it.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:27 am
My children are grown and two of them have their own homes, the youngest is still at home and finishing up her fourth year university. We have always played board games as they grew up. Whenever we have a ‘family’ dinner, playing games will always be a part of that. Every year there is a new game under the Christmas tree, whether a new game just come on the market or a new rendition of the ‘ratty’ one we can no longer play. Yeah we do a lot of puzzles too!!
Carly’s Note: You’re right - there are some newer games that are great fun, too. Taboo is one that comes to mind.
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Hi Carly:
I am sure you won’t know these games but as a child we played:
“Snakes & Ladders” , “Yhatzee” and “Clue”
“The good ole bad ole days”!!!
Carly’s Note: I know and love them all. Snakes & Ladders was changed to Chutes and Ladders because snakes were thought to be too scary for kids - oh, please! We turned out alright. Well, some of us did anyway.
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Risk and Scrabble were (and still are) mine. I used to be a Scrabble god, but alas I haven’t played in the while and the last time I got majorly trounced. Such is life.
These days I’m a sucker for poker, but no one trusts me to deal as I’m capable of sleight of hand and card manipulation… mwa-hahahaaaa!
Later!
-S.B.
Carly’s Note: Yes, sadly my vocabulary has dwindled since my university days/ Use it or lose it, I guess. I’ll have to get into online Poker and Scrabble to stay sharp. It’s supposed to ward off senility.