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Does anybody still play them ? I keep getting outbid on ebay as im after the new updated Monopoly "Limited Edition Here And Now".
When i moved i somehow lost a box with all my games in :confused:

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Love monopoly but always get beat which proberly explains why I never got a job in the city of london. Found the money handy for drunken games of poker as well. :)

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roflmao @ using the money for drunken games of poker !

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When we reach this stage we are out of readies so we use the next best thing available. Pity we couldnt by more booze with it.

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i love monopoly does any 1 still play frustration???

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i have had the new limited edition here and now since July and my hubby still wont play it!!

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I have Monopoly for sale on ebay, in excellent condition too.

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I love board games and yes we play old and new. We've got the Tunisian version of Monopoly with all the instructions and chance & community chest cards in French!

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oh janet you forgot to say "but since i know you i will let you have it for (insert value here )" risk was a good board game ........................for getting into fights with your mates that is! funny how everyone always tried to get austrailia first..

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Is it the limited edition here and now one ? the one with The London Eye ??

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Not keen on Monopoly unless I'm drunk and I don't realise how long it takes to play it, but love my Scrabble.:)

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You'll all have to come down to the New Era on 4th March - I'm organising a 'games day'. I'm hoping to set up a mini Scrabble championship, there'll be tables that you can just sit down and play Monopoly, Backgammon, Othello and others, there'll be a treasure hunt around Accrington. I'm hoping to set up a giant chess set and need two teams of 16, or 4 teams of 16 to play. There'll be a jigsaw table where you can come along and swap an old jigsaw and pick up one you've never done and lots, lots more.

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No, sorry it's not the one you're after jimmi.

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I don't like monopoly very much either.
I like a game of scrabble but i'm not over good at it.
Not played for a long,long time.

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Playing Uckers on a Ludo board is the game of all games. Failing that a pack of cards will spawn hundreds of games.
German Whist anyone?
Switch perhaps?
Sergeant Major?
Nomination Whist?
Contract Whist?
Good old Cribbage?
What about Liar Dice with a set of poker dice?

You can find the rules of these and many more on my web site at http://www.jambutty17.freeserve.co.uk/golf/09i.html

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I suppose that every Scrabble player must have wondered at one time or another what is the highest score made with just one word?

I was no different and spent many hours trying all sorts of combinations to determine a result. I have found that it is possible to score 1,022 points with one word.

Before anyone goes wow! I have to confess that it was set up. What I mean is that I worked backwards and placed tiles on the board to make up words to my advantage. For instance I set things up so that during the game I placed my seven tiles to add to the already placed eight letters to form a 15 letter word across the top which just happened to have the three treble word squares and the two double letter squares empty for me to put my tiles into. Thus I got the treble word three times as well as the 50 points bonus for being a smart ass. The word was PSYCHOTHERAPIST.

O.K. just to prove the point this is what happened:-

I arranged to draw the following letters in this order:-
XUSEALT EBLREM HOJAMOR EE ABOVDWN ERIN SPS YC HP T

SEXUAL across the board with the "E" on the centre square.
TEBLREM to meet up with the "S" to make TREMBLES
HO to meet the "T" in TREMBLES to make HOT
JAMOREE across TREMBLES to make JAMBOREE
ABOV to meet the last "E" of JAMBOREE to make ABOVE
DWN across ABOVE to make DOWN
ER to meet the "A" of ABOVE to make ERA
IN to meet the "N" of DOWN to make INN
S to meet the "I" of INN to make IS
PSYCHPT in the 7 empty spaces in the top row to make
PSYCHOTHERAPIST

P=3, S=1, Y=4, C=3x2, H=4, O=1, T=1, H=4, E=1, R=1, A=1,
P=3x2, I=1, S=1, T=1 which all adds up to 36.
Triple word score 3 times is 36 x 3 x 3 x 3 = 972 + 50 = 1022

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I like monopoly though I am also rather partial to Chess and Cluedo!

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lol @ jambutty !

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HATE, HATE, HATE MONOPOLY with a vengeance, it's a game that once you are on the losing side, landing on the squares that other people have .. no way of ever retrieving the situation, whilst the estate holders gloat over your misery of you handing out your last available funds.
Slow boring death. Only game I have ever thrown my toys out of the pram and gone against the standards I like to think have given my children in being a good sport ..... grrrrrrrrrr just thinking about it. :mad:

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so i take it you're not interested in janets monopoly set in excellent condition i might add!!. go on buy it ,even if it is only to destroy it...........

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lol! Love love love monopoly but I'm usually one of them gloating estate holders with hotels on Park Lane and Mayfair :D

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What a surprise, Tinks the control freak!:D

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I like both scrabble and monopoly. I also like chess though I was once beaten in 3 moves, another favourite of mine is draughts.
Gayle remind us a bit nearer the time about your games day as I will definitely come along to that.

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strip tiddly winks is good fun especialy if you scrap the tiddly and sick to winks and strip :D

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No, don't lose the tiddly, if you increase the tiddly it tends to lead to the winks and then the strip!

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I laugh at your 1022, heres 1830!

http://www.fun-with-words.com/scrabble.html

:)

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What you need is make-your-own-opoly, you need a pc and printer though. You print the labels for the board, utilities, road names etc, and for the box. I'm doing mine with Atherstone street names, but you could use accy's.
Also that here and now edition is in WHSmith, I saw it when I bought the above version at the trafford centre on wednesday.

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Yes its £20 from WHS.

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I had some games purchased in the 1950's which I never knew anyone else to have. There was a board game called "Oscar" which was billed on the box as "A film star's rise to fame." There was also a picture of, a young and beautiful, Liz Taylor on the box.

I also had two little known card games. One was called "I commit" and was a crime and detection game. The other was called "Contraband" and was a smuggling game.

Anyone heard of these or maybe also had them around that time?

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Eeew yes, JohnW remember Contraband, absolutely loved it, pictures on the cards were so bright and colourful ... great when you could smuggle the Crown Jewels through, eh ? :)

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Yes Katex. Other cards I remember were, diamond necklace, martel brandy, camera, watch, of course, the Crown Jewels and, rembemer the Diplomatic Bag?

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Really love board games. Reminds me when i was a kid staying over at my grannys on a sat nite and we always got out the games. Cards, dominos, frustration. My kids do as well every year at christmas always get them a board game as a joint family gift. Last year was Lancashire Monopoly.

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What was the card game with the triangles, rectangles, squares ... black and white with one triangle in another, etc ?... wouldn't like to play after a few drinks .... would think seeing treble. :confused:

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Has anyone got any old Scrabble boards that they wouldn't mind donating to the event have you? I'll come and collect.

Also, any old jigsaws that you're clearing out would be gratefully appreciated.

Please pm me, thanks.

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heh heh i`m lucky managed to get a lancashire edition also i seem to collect them
i got a standard box, USA version and a star wars edition

sorry none for sale though they coming collectors pieces now

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I remember playing Risk - worse than Monopoly for leading to marriage breakdowns! Still enjoy board games - I have a flypaper memory so Trivial Pursuit is always good.

Anyone remember a card game called "Stop the Cab"? I used to play it with my mother and my best friend Barbara, but no-one else seems to have heard of it.

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i love monopoly but no one seem's to want to play it with me possibly cuz were all rushing around all the time

and it can get very confusing when you putting mortgages on roads and then trading

modern games such as Mahjongg are really good to

does any one play Mahjongg or has ever played it, what did you think of it?

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we have a marjong in the arcade have you played it yet Dean ?

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yes but that's Mahjongg tiles i like to play the board games of Mahjongg games of four winds. tis a chinese gamboling games but you can play with pooints.

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Mahjongg is hardly modern, it dates back to about the 14th century in China!

It is a fascinating game, and very addictive.

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well it's modern to me lol but then again a bet 18 years of life isn't long compaired to some lol

i only found out about it from my gfd's family last year and have really got into the game

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..I USED TO LOVE PLAYING MONOPOLY AND SCRABBLE..I THINK IVE GOT ONE SOME WERE..I MIGHT START PLAYING IT AGAIN THOUGH..THATS IF I FIND IT LOL