[mercutio2]

Funny!

My gamer friends love monopoly as a light warm up! A game with adults who know how to play takes ~45 minutes. Auctions are taught affairs, which is really the only decision point, but that’s why it’s such a fast play-through.

[Oddskar]

And you probably play using your own house rules to make it palatable: the hallmark of an at best mediocre game.

[kgermino]

No one I know that enjoys Monopoly (I don't know anyone who loves it) has significant house rules. It's a mediocre game by almost any metric but house rules almost universally make it worse, not better.

[Oddskar]

Maybe that's because everyone that's played any other boardgame made the last 10 years has abandoned monopoly completely since it's not a great game.

I also disagree that one cannot fix some of its many, many flaws with house rules. Remember that the spirit of the original rules was a game made as an anti-capitalist statement, not to be a fun experience.

[salamandersauce]

Most of the popular house rules make it worse like $50 on Free Parking or allowing people to build houses when the supply is empty and not having auctions. It certainly has a big luck component compared to more modern games but it's really not that bad.

[mercutio2]

What?!? Of course not.

It’s just a pleasantly light start to 12 hour board game sessions.