What we did to the game of Monopoly

This is the story of how, one night, a bunch of Malaysian students, destroyed the game of Monopoly.

Us neighbors at Lorne Avenue apartments have the occasional game of Monopoly every other night. Because we live in Magill, which has pretty much nothing to do within a 3 kilometer radius at night. So we play Monopoly.

We originally played with SHORTCUT RULES. You don't have to get property of all the colors to begin buying houses there, just get a property, step on it again to buy a house.

Initially we thought playing with these rules will speed the game up, but actually....the original rules makes things go faster. We realised this in the past two days.

And because original rules say you have to get all the property of a color before buying houses, trading got a lot more violent. I have never, before this, played a game of Monopoly when swear words go flying back and forth across the board.

Yesterday we took the game to new heights, when Thomas, Reagan and Surekha decided to form an alliance, SHARE their property and going so far as to Reagen and Surekha funding to build houses and hotels on what they owned together: All the yellow property (Coventry, Leicester Square and Picadilly) and all the dark blue property (Park Lane and Mayfair). Whatever proceeds they got, went to Reagan and Surekha, due to Thomas being in debt to them. Basically, Reagan and Surekha are doing this to keep Thomas afloat in the game (he was nearing bankruptcy).

After a lot of arguing, we decided okay, maybe this is fair and valid, plus the rulebook did say "You may make up your own rules." The rest of us, Jay, Kien, Ronald and I, had to do something about it. We combined all our property, which equalled to all of the light blue property (Angel Islington, Euston Road, Pentonville Road), the brown property (Old Kent "Kien" Road, Whitechapel Road) and the red property (Strand, Fleet Street and Trafalgar Square), and three train stations. At this point, any loose property we had that didn't have matching colored property, were already not important. So we each contributed some of our money into a 'slush fund', and the money from this fund would go into building houses.

What happened was, Thomas, Reagan and Surekha's alliance reduced the game to only two players.

You shoulda seen how many houses and hotels were lined up. We were paying no less than 500 quids a hit. Whatever money we got went into the slush fund. No one was winning individually. In the end Thomas went bankrupt first, and later all of us did, Reagan and Surekha triumphed, and we vowed never to play Monopoly this way ever again.