![]() If you land directly on Go, you collect $400 instead of the usual $200.of Evanston, Illinois, has submitted a list of what appears to be every Monopoly rule variation ever devised by the mind of man, ranging from the mundane to the criminally deranged. Speedily responding to my recent request, Alex M. If you guys know of any other interesting variations, send ’em along. Another variation is the two-rooks rule in chess, which (as I understand it) allows you to move both rooks one square forward from their original spots at the same time. This keeps the blanks in constant circulation, which can be useful toward the end of the game when everybody is getting down to the nubs, letters-wise. Under this rule, if somebody puts a blank on the board to signify “R,’ say, and later you wind up with an “R’ in your rack, you can substitute the real letter for the blank and re-use the latter. Other interesting board-game rule variations include the blank-tile substitution rule in Scrabble. Such corruptions make it just about impossible for anybody to go bankrupt, meaning games go on forever. One of my sources says the kids on his block had worked out an even better scam: whenever you landed on Free Parking, you got one bill of each denomination from the bank - $686, if my addition can be relied upon. The purpose of the variation, obviously, is to enable financially inept players to scratch up a little extra capital. The Free Parking variation is apparently well known in all parts of the country, although an equal number of people play by the official rules. Here’s the sum total of their wisdom on the subject: “It is not known when the practice of collecting money on ‘Free Parking’ began.” However, they do graciously allow that “while the official Parkers Brothers rules followed in tournament play do not allow such variations, you may follow ‘house rules’ if all players consent before play begins.” Thanks a heap, guys. You’d think Parker Brothers would keep track of vital facts like this, but guess again.
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