Saturday, July 26, 2008

Monopoly game produces surprise winner

Micha's rendering of the Monopoly Guy, "Rich Uncle Pennybags"


For today's game, Micha selected Monopoly, a choice he came quickly to regret.  On the first turn round the board, Susan landed on Park Place, half of Micha's by-far favorite monopoly.  Only moments later, Susan landed on Chance, and received the "Take a Walk on the Boardwalk" card, a turn of events that gave her the priciest Monopoly on the board.  She wisely sank all her liquid assets into three houses on each property, and Noah immediately landed on Boardwalk, wiping out his liquid assets immediately, and forcing him to mortgage all non-essential properties.  Two turns later, Susan landed on "Free Parking," capping an incredible run of luck that gave her the resources quickly to build hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place.  

Her opponents had not been entirely without luck.  Noah purchased the light blue monopoly (Oriental, Vermont & Connecticut Avenues), and Micha managed to buy the burgundy monopoly (St. Charles, States & Virginia Avenues).  In time, Noah gained control of the tan monopoly (St. James, Tennessee & New York Avenues), and Micha got the purple one (Mediterranean and Baltic Avenues).  But it was not long before Noah landed once again on Boardwalk.  His financial future was destroyed with a roll of the dice.  Before declaring bankruptcy, however, he sold his two monopolies to Micha.  However, Micha had no money and was unlikely to beat Susan, who had clearly become the Donald Trump of Nordau Blvd.

It was then that the miracle happened.  For the next dozen rolls, Micha managed time and again to avoid Susan's properties.  Meanwhile, Susan's luck had soured.  Time and again she landed on Micha, who used the at-first modest rent she paid to enhance his real estate holdings, adding house to house and soon enough building hotels.  His investments paid off, as Susan landed time and again in his properties, eventually removing her hotels from her properties and mortgaging them.  It was not long before Micha, to the shock of all (himself included), had won the game.

1 comment:

Star-Lack Family said...

Hi!

The Star-Lack family bloggers send a shout out to the E-W Blog Team.

What a fun family you have. We want to come over for Shabbat games.

Ella, are you coming to the LP reunion too?