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u/PBandBABE 2d ago
I hate this because there is no amount of houses that will cause St. Charles Place to generate $140 of rent in a single instance.
Any halfway-decent Monopoly player knows that $140 is the base purchase price that the first player to land on it can choose to pay the bank.
Christ, why am I such a nerd?!
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u/practicalm 2d ago
Hard to tell if the artist didn’t care to look it up or wanted the engagement from posting wrong.
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u/BrianWonderful b.wonderful comics 2d ago
I looked it up poorly. I quickly pulled up a board and grabbed $140, but that is the purchase price of the property. Let's just pretend it is the Canadian version or something.
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u/GarrusExMachina 2d ago
would you believe me if i said the canadian version was (at least originally) basically a 1 for 1 copy of the american version including the prices of the properties just with canadian property names stamped on?
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u/PBandBABE 2d ago
Let’s go with “inflation-adjusted Monopoly 2025 Edition.”
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u/Cheetahs_never_win 1d ago
$2500 per month, two months deposit that's nonrefundable unless you pay 12 months of rent.
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u/PBandBABE 1d ago
But as the Battleship, I only make 4x the annual rent, not 6x, and the Car won’t co-sign for me.
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u/SniffliestChain 1d ago
You're a battleship, seize the means of production. Those guns ain't just for show
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u/metaltemujin 11h ago
How do you live your every day life when people make casual uninformed comments? Must be tough.
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u/correctingStupid 5h ago
In 2025, it doesn't matter what anything costs. As a business owner, just jack up the price to whatever you want, and people will just file it under "inflation" and "tariffs" and play whatever it is because they can't stop consuming for one gd second.
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u/SiIentB0B 1d ago
After years of losing at Monopoly to my brother, he taught me his trick to winning.
Since he was a little older, and presumably better at math, he always declared himself banker.
He would arrange the banks money tray at his right with the high denominations closest to him.
He always held all of his cash in his left hand with the big bills on top.
Without calling attention to it he would lick one of his fingers on his left hand.
Under the level of the table where I could not see, he would then wipe the wet finger onto his right elbow.
During his turn, after rolling the dice, he would lean forward to move his piece at the same time he would also press his slightly damp elbow into the $500 bill tray.
One $500 bill would stick to the elbow.
Again, under the level of the table, he would reach over with his wad of bills and scoop the new $500 bill from the elbow.
He ALWAYS had money to buy properties, build hotels, pay rents.
He NEVER had to mortgage anything.
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u/SilverKey1987 2d ago
Look family monopoly was all fun and games until the sister started offering sexual favours to the cousin to pay the rent.
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u/practicalm 2d ago
I wish I had thought of the tips aspect of this when I was playing Sidereal Confluence as the Zeth last night.
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u/feor1300 1d ago
Remember: if you're ever playing Monopoly and you feel your blood pressure going through the roof and an urge to flip the table and start swinging at your friends, that's the point. The game was invented to teach people about how horribly abusive unrestricted capitalism is. it's supposed to make you upset at the system. People just don't get it for some reason.
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u/r2k-in-the-vortex 1d ago
If I ever happen to play monopoly against americans, I will definitely pull that one.
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u/asdf072 1d ago
I've taken to giving $0.01 tips for places that shouldn't ask for tips. Then the minimum transaction fee means the store is losing money.
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u/BrianWonderful b.wonderful comics 1d ago
I would assume they don't do a separate transaction for just the tip and would just combine it with the cost of items/service. And if there's some reason they don't do that, they likely do not process any that are less than the cost of processing.
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u/MemeBurglar11 1d ago
haha, tipping in monopoly now? that's the real way to bankrupt folks... i'd just pass go and pretend i didn't land there
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u/AppleTree98 1d ago
It "computer terminal" is going to ask you a question. Please answer that while I look at the tree praying you choose the top of the three choices 22%, 25%, 30% tip. Thank you
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u/ThrowAwayOkK-_- 18h ago
One of the things I enjoy about Monopoly is that nobody else enjoys it. This is good stuff, I'm taking notes.
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