I think it's chicken-**** and would have switched to ass-kicken mode. I always enjoyed drinking beer with the family and playing a nice game of 'Sorry'. Talk about stabbing people in the back. I hate Scrooble, because I always screw up my vowels.
I love playing Sorry with the kids, I don't have to let them win, the game is all on luck and they can kick my ass with out any help. Another one I like is Yahtzee.
Reminds me of a story... When my step-dad was dating my mom I had just turned 9 years old. He was spending some time with the kids and so we played a game of monopoly. So a 28 year old CPA with an MBA playing monopoly against kids ages 6, 9, and 12. My older brother proceeds to blow out quickly and with help my little brother is barely holding on. My little bother lands on a property owned by mom's boyfriend and he doesn't have enough cash to cover the rent. He looks at him and says "I don't have enough..." Clever boyfriend says that's OK, just give me your property, that will cover it. I scream "NO! You MORTGAGE your properties, get the cash, pay the rent with it and then when you go out of the game, he has to pay a penalty to get them out of mortgage. That way you SCREW HIM JUST A LITTLE BIT." Mom's boyfriend looked at me in shock and busted out laughing.
According to this, it is not legal. You would have to sell the houses to the bank before you sell the property to another player. http://richard_wilding.tripod.com/monorules.htm#sellingproperty
But deep down inside, he hated you. He's always hated you, because he thinks that you think that you're better than him. He wanted to hit you at the time, but that wouldn't have been smart, so he decided to feed you small doses of pine sol in your soup. It's just taking a long time to kill you.
What does that matter? So he has to sell his houses before selling the property. The point was that he was trying to screw over the thread-starter. And, that's legal. Next time, he should be less of a jerk so people don't try to screw him over. Apparently, when my wife was little, she and her brother played a game of Monopoly with her parents. Her father told her and her brother that they had to sell him all their property or else their mother would win. So they did and their father won. Her mother vowed to never play Monopoly with them again, and didn't. My wife is now banned from playing. She likes the game, but she's terrible at losing. If I played with her, I'd have to make sure I lost. So, I don't let her play.
We (4 of us) once played a game of Monopoly with real money. We each put $15 in the bank and kept $15 for ourselves. We scaled things down by a factor of 100 since you start with $1500 in regular Monopoly money. We bought plenty of beer and food for what we thought would be a long night of playing. On my first trip around the board I acquired 3 railroads so I was in a good position. Unfortunately the only monopoly was when another player got Baltic and Mediterranean. he ended up winning and we were done in less than an hour.
Well, the point wasn't solely whether or not it was being unsportsmanlike or being a jerk, but also whether or not it was cheating. In his case, it was indeed cheating because you can only sell the property, not the houses. The houses would give undue advantage to the buyer, wherease rent on land is not too bad. But yes, part of the game is to be nice enough that people would sell their land to you and not others.
I'll concede and recognize the point about the houses. It may even have helped him had he known to object to the selling of the houses. But, they'd still have ganged up on him.
I would not mind if the land (w/ houses) were sold if he paid a price for it. However, that land was pretty much given away, so the two pretty much conspired to partner up and take me down, right?
Yeah, but most house rules played aren't in the official rules. Cheating is usually determined from the beginning. The way I played it, trades could be made with qualifiers like not paying monopoly prices on each others traded property or not paying house money. For a deal like what you had, your option to not lose would be to cooly protest and angle for a way to not pay the full monopoly fee. It wouldn't necessarily work if everyone's sour at that point, but it would give everyone the impression that their victory would be tainted through cheating. That's why my family never plays Monopoly....
you got completly screwed but only partially cheated. Selling the property is legal but you have to sell the houses to the bank first, but it's totally unethical. Monopoly seems to bring out the worst in people.
