Monopoly

During the festive period, it is tradition that my family plays Monopoly, or more to the point I make them play a game every year. This year was no exception, although like usual I can never get my Dad to play. He feels that the game is real life and he can't cope with spending lots of money even though he knows it's a fake game.

The idea of Monopoly is simple, for any one who hasn't played (do you live under a rock or something?) Monopoly is a board game which can be played by 2 or more players. The idea of the game is to move around the board collecting money and buying properties, to win the game you need all of the other opponents to go bankrupt, or usually just give up as the games last HOURS.

There are a few problems with the game.

• Games can last hours unless the players quit.
• Game always ends in an argument.
• Cheating (Taking money from bank and hiding it under the board)

Like most things in life, these problems only occur because humans dont like defeat, the game was not designed like this.

So back to the festive games, of course I won both games against my sister, she did NOT like the fact I landed on the free parking twice. I was beaten once by my mum and I won one game versus my mum, after landing on the free parking.

Its sods law when you are attempting to land on free parking, you always land on the spaces right next to the square but never on it itself. Frustration usually kicks in once this has happened 10 or more times at which point when you do eventually land on the free parking you opponents fate is sealed and game hits the biggest anti-climax possible in board games.