Saturday 23 August 2008

New World Edition Monopoly game

Does anyone else find the new World Edition Monopoly game board conspicuous? First of all, I had to look up "Gdynia". Sure, it's the cheapest property on the board, but why is it on there at all when cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and Rio de Janeiro are absent? Riga is the second-most expensive property, the best-kept secret among jet-setters...I guess. I might understand if China had two cities on the board, but three??? I've saved the most bizarre aspect for last.

Canada, a country so small in population that it barely surpasses the city of Tokyo, is the only country represented on the board besides China with more than one city--and it has not two cities, but three! Lastly, the coveted "Boardwalk" location is now occupied by Montreal, one of the least important cities in Canada. I'm not sure if it's still shrinking in size, but people are running away from Montreal faster than the residents around the recent huge propane facility explosion in Toronto were.

Here's a look at the properties on the new board in descending order of value:

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  2. No I haven't.


    It's still there.


    I insist it is. There, now everything's quite undisturbed except for Wikipedia which puts a reference to that Monopoly game in its article on a German city, revealing that Wikipedia is rather monstrously ill in its design.


    -- RL/R

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