Monopoly-it’s original purpose?

[Furryanimal]

 

[MarciKS]

lol...teaching us how to fight over who got to be the boot.

 

[Marie5656]

lol...teaching us how to fight over who got to be the boot.

Or the Scottie dog. LOL

 

[Sassycakes]

I thought it was invented so my older sister would always beat me !

 

[Lewkat]

I despise that game. I wish it had never been invented.

 

[Lakeland living]

To teach you early in life how to cheat, to be greedy

 

[Kaila]

The idea of Play Money was irresistible.

Add dice, little ornaments, a board with paths and colors....cards with words and colors...something to do, indoors on a rainy day......what could go wrong?

 

[MarciKS]

a knock down drag out over who was gonna be the boot, go to your room sort of wrong. that's what. lol!

 

[MarciKS]

or my brother would get ticked off if he was losing and he'd throw his money down and stomp to his room to cry.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

That was an emotionally draining game. I hated it when I was down to owning Baltic Avenue, and a railroad, $2,. and a get out of jail card, What irked me was being in jail was the only place on the board I could afford.

 

[Keesha]

I liked monopoly. Then again, I never played to win. I played to have fun and I can’t ever remember completing an entire game

 

[Kaila]

Its original purpose, besides to market it,
might have been to encourage the learning and practice, of the skills of math and reading....

however, what ensued was generations of arguments....more than the average "game" it seemed.

 

[hollydolly]

I despise that game. I wish it had never been invented.

Me too

 

[Ken N Tx]

I liked monopoly. Then again, I never played to win. I played to have fun and I can’t ever remember completing an entire game

 

[Furryanimal]

I just loved having hotels on Mayfair and Park Lane-but no one ever seemed to land on them..

 

[Fyrefox]

Monopoly originally enabled powerless and impoverished Great Depression-weary Americans to fantasize about being monied robber barons and captains of industry. It became kind of an interactive financial fantasy game thereafter, a great way for a kid in my youth to idle away a hot summer afternoon with friends. There was a little bit of the Simpsons "Montgomery Burns" in us all, apparently. This was in an earlier, simpler time before video games, cell phones, and on-line social networking supplanted board games and in-person socialization... *sighs*

 

[LindaB]

I loved Monopoly! It just took forever for someone to win and we got bored playing before that happened!