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Monopoly (The Game) Updated for the Recession

billshrink.com — The game of Monopoly has been a source of cheap entertainment for decades, so it is only appropriate that we gave it a slight makeover to bring it up to speed with the slow economy.

Who dugg this? Made popular May 8, 2009

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  • MrSmileGuy, on 05/08/2009, -3/+243Amazing concept, relatively weak execution...
  • Greengoo, on 05/08/2009, -9/+110My only complaints:

    1) The Bank of America Property Cards aren't reflected on the board
    2) Why include Chevy with Pontiac, Chrysler and Hummer?
    3) "Go directly to collections" sends you to "Debtor's Prison". Inconsistent.
  • Llanowar, on 05/08/2009, -1/+81http://rorr.im/digg.com/arts_culture/monopoly_the_ ...
  • chadisawesome, on 05/08/2009, -3/+57the server did not pass go, did not collect $200
  • JRHodes88, on 05/08/2009, -2/+56I enjoy the Monopoly edition where the server crashes after hitting the front page
  • inactive, on 05/08/2009, -0/+51Do not go to jail, Collect Bailout
  • SurlyDuff, on 05/08/2009, -2/+53Hold on...wasn't Monopoly created during the Great Depression? I don't really think it has to be updated for hard economic times:-\
  • sockpuppets, on 05/08/2009, -5/+54Needs more cowbell.
  • IvenomI, on 05/08/2009, -8/+41Buried you for the exact same reason.
  • AllINeed, on 05/08/2009, -2/+33Lovin' it. Time to set up a Monopoly date.
  • inactive, on 05/08/2009, -0/+20Do not pass go. Do not collect two dollars.
  • Greengoo, on 05/08/2009, -1/+21Don't digg him down, he's right.
  • JoeF8577, on 05/08/2009, -0/+15no, you guys are missing the point.

    Monopoly was designed during the depression.
  • sockpuppets, on 05/08/2009, -1/+16If you don't wind up with a hotel in your ass you're doing it wrong.
  • DulcetTone, on 05/08/2009, -5/+19Why aren't the CHANCE cards called CHANGE?

  • dinglebutt, on 05/08/2009, -12/+26I lost the game.
  • themastersb, on 05/08/2009, -3/+14Only children play Monopoly?
  • scribat, on 05/08/2009, -4/+14You're a towel.
  • mparker21311, on 05/08/2009, -2/+11Dugg for keeping the crease in the center of the board.
  • thefarside420, on 05/08/2009, -3/+12If I recall correctly, three other people already mentioned the same thing, you ***** repeating piece of *****.
  • irvin666, on 05/08/2009, -3/+12Isn't this how the board game came to be? BECAUSE of the great depression of the late 1920s and 30s? They wanted to make sure no one would think of communism as the alternative so they created this jolly ol capitalist fun game. =)
  • DavidWalkerTV, on 05/08/2009, -3/+12Love the stimulus cards!
  • rifaco, on 05/08/2009, -3/+12Wasn't Monopoly invented during a recession? No update necessary. . .
  • LaughingMan89, on 05/08/2009, -0/+7They could have been buying on margin.
  • barrakuda, on 05/08/2009, -1/+8Doesn't GM own chevy, pontiac, and hummer?
  • davelog, on 05/08/2009, -2/+9Agreed enthusiastically. Such potential.
  • JoeF8577, on 05/08/2009, -0/+7aaannddd YOU must be the Monopoly guy!


    hey.... thanks for the the free parking.
  • themastersb, on 05/08/2009, -0/+7AWWWW... ***** YOU!
  • plainOldFool, on 05/08/2009, -3/+10I would buy this edition.
  • KatherineVolk, on 05/08/2009, -0/+6Get out of jail card: Cayman's ACCOUNT.
  • theOster, on 05/08/2009, -0/+6and popeyes shouldn't run out of chicken.
  • robertisaar, on 05/08/2009, -0/+6half the clothing yet all of the looks....
  • JoeF8577, on 05/08/2009, -1/+7no...

    you're a towel.
  • Snoogs, on 05/08/2009, -0/+6I think that's what Iceland did.
  • SpeedSteamBoat, on 05/09/2009, -0/+5Yes, but Chevy is going to be fine, Pontiac is being dissolved/absorbed, and Hummer is being sold. So what's the message in including them all where the railroads go? They're all in different situations, and at least one on the way to non-existence. Why would owning them all give a bonus?

    It's just weak execution of the concept. It could have been much funnier and made more sense. It reads like a really bad/lazy political cartoon.
  • HotN, on 05/08/2009, -2/+7A loose bailout adaptation, of sorts: http://www.thebailoutgame.us/
  • astyguy, on 05/08/2009, -0/+5and why does only one company make monopoly ......
  • souljaboytellem, on 05/09/2009, -0/+5"I have no idea what is going on right now"
  • coadyj, on 05/08/2009, -3/+7and its dowm!!!! i think digg should make mirrors of the sites that make the front page
  • iDiggr, on 05/08/2009, -2/+6No. If anything it should just be "Recession". You can't just add "opoly" to ***** and call it goodopoly. Jesus ***** Christopoly.

  • ColonelJessup, on 05/08/2009, -2/+6Here we go again with the digg.com economic professors............................
  • Kalior, on 05/08/2009, -0/+4FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
  • NanoRus, on 05/09/2009, -0/+4Damn you.
  • scubachef11, on 05/08/2009, -2/+6wow. mirror please.
  • ithejosh, on 05/09/2009, -0/+4wow i did too
  • davidbeile, on 05/08/2009, -7/+11(The Game)
  • sublimeparanoia, on 05/09/2009, -0/+4as did i
  • loxics, on 05/09/2009, -0/+4Amount put in and loss percentage is unrelated.
  • ghatid, on 05/08/2009, -2/+5Who would put enough money into stocks to lose 96% of their money?
  • insanebrain, on 05/08/2009, -4/+7yes... you are buried for being dumb.
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