I am going to bed early tonight. It’s only 9:20 but I don’t care. I’ve been up too late two nights in a row. Last night was the earlier of the two and it was late. Of course, you’re never going to have an early night when you start a game of Monopoly at 9:30pm or so. I’ll get to Friday night later. (hence this is called part 2)
After having our other plans shot down by a series of mishaps, Paul, Laura, Chey, and I headed back to Paul and Laura’s house for some kind of game. After a bit of prodding by her husband, Laura finally relented and we got out Monopoly. The game was going quite slowly for a while with no one owning a Monopoly until Chey came away with Baltic and Mediterranean. And those two properties just aren’t going to put people out of business. The cash was flowing easily with our two house rules: the always popular $500+ for Free Parking, and a rule I’d never heard before–$400 for landing directly on Go.
So something needed to be done. Laura is one of those players who is not a wheeler-dealer. But Paul and Chey ganged up to give her the best outcome of a three person deal. Laura ended up with Boardwalk and Park Place while Chey got the Light Blues and Paul ended up with the Magentas. Houses and hotels were thrown up and the game began in earnest.
I at the time had 4 properties. A veritable anti-bounty. It was unbelievable. But everyone decided that we needed to make some shady deals so that everyone could have some fun. Paul ended up with almost all of the Yellows and a few extra Railroads, Chey got a little bit of money, and I ended up with the Greens. More houses and soon hotels were built.
