![]() If the broken card is what I think it is, then I don't see how you can steal three sets in a single turn. If you can only play three cards per turn and and there are only 2 broken cards in the game. I too am curious about this card combo you speak of. I've played about a dozen games so far, only with 2 players, and have enjoyed the game. Planning and strategy are most often rewarded. Luck plays a strong role in this game and fortunes turn quickly, but it's not as bad as the review suggests. It's easy to learn and not that tough to master though getting a hang of the strategy requires a good teacher or some experience.Ī comment about the review: you can't go from no cards on the table to winning in one hand - because you can only lay down three cars per turn. Many of my (adult) friends love this game and use it as a filler when a spare half hour is at hand. ![]() There's no effing way Dogstar Games has Monopoly Deal. Lots of strategy and quick thinking and planningĪ couple cards completely ruin the game for serious gamers Which is funny, because I would not have expected that from the people who make Candyland. Without these lucky cards, Monopoly Deal is a fun combination of luck, strategy and good card play that can lend itself to a fantastic, tense endgame where anyone could win. For one thing, there are only two of the game-breaker cards, and we've pulled them out, so that we don't have a great, tense game ruined by one stupid card draw. It's fun to win, but that's a crappy way to do it.īut this lucky card thing is not enough to keep me from playing Monopoly Deal again. For instance, in one game, I went from having nothing on the table at all to a sweeping win in just one turn. Of course, this is a mass-market game by the people who make Chutes and Ladders, so they probably don't mind if you can build a game-breaker hand with just two cards, but for those of us who like games that reward skill over blind luck, those cards just suck. There are a couple cards that absolutely ruin the game, in my opinion. There's planning and strategy and luck and all that stuff you like in a decent card game. It's also really fast, so you can play with four people in 15-20 minutes. Monopoly Deal is a surprisingly good game, considering that the publisher of this game is also responsible for the intensely boring Game of Life. Playing money might seem like kind of a waste, but if you don't have money in your bank, you can't protect your properties, and you'll spend the whole game with nothing in front of you. Since you also have to set up those collections, and you only get three cards per turn, you have to be building as you go. ![]() You can swipe money from other players with some of the action cards, and if they can't pay, they have to give you properties (cha-ching!). Sometimes you might even pass, just to make sure you set up your killer play for next turn. You could play a property, placing it in front of you, or you could play an action that lets you do something like charge rent, pass Go, or steal money when nobody else is looking (you don't actually need a card for that last one - it's actually cheating, so you only get to do it if you can get away with it).Įvery one of these possibilities is important, but you only get to play three cards, so you have to plan ahead. You can bank a card - there are cards that are specifically money, but every card also has a value if you decide to turn it into money. On your turn, you get to play three cards. Also, nobody gets to be the race car, which I found a little disappointing (I'm always the race car). You can't bankrupt your opponents, so everyone is playing until the game is over, and there's no such thing as Free Parking. The winner is the first player to get three full sets of properties. It's a set collection game using Monopoly properties. Turns out, it's not Monopoly (cue all the people saying, 'well, duh', including me if you had said the same thing to me). However, I have a fairly solid policy of reviewing anything someone sends me, so I broke it out and read the rules anyway. A card game spinoff of Monopoly is not the first game I would generally bring to the gaming table. When I opened the most recent package from Hasbro and pulled out a little card game called Monopoly Deal, I was initially a little chagrined (for those of you who don't know what that means, go look it up). Recently I got a press package for Spongebob Squarepants Sorry, and I can tell you, I'm hoping the actual game does not arrive. But I also got Risk: Black Ops, which was close to the highlight of my reviewing career. Being on Hasbro's list of favored reviewers has its upsides and down.
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