[herge]

There's good game design around luck (randomness) and bad game design around luck.

Monopoly has a lot of randomness, and it is hard to design a strategy to mitigate bad luck, which is probably why it isn't worth playing more than a few times.

Settlers of Catan and Texas Hold'em Poker both involve randomness, but a good strategy will mitigate bad luck (for example , in settlers, avoid holding a lot of a commodity to not be crippled by the monopoly card) and exploit good luck.

[gte910h]

Monopoly's biggest issues are that it eliminates people, and people refuse to play with the auctions and other game rules as written (and do stuff like letting people survive, etc, prolonging it longer).

To each his own, for sure, but that game takes forever without the auctions.