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Fair Market Monopoly
Who cares where Marvin Gardens is?
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This new electronic version of the monopoly game would have a GPS in it so it would know where you were playing when you turned it on. The game would do a quick search of the property appraiser's office in your area and give the spots real names based on the values in your locale. At least then you'd know what you were playing for. (I guess it would stink if your house turned out to be the cheapest spot though.)
longshot9999, Dec 07 2004

You need this http://www.research...wscenter/index.html
An interactive board game? Certainly sir! [moomintroll, Jan 18 2006]


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       If local values such as public bike paths, community gardens, adequate seniors care facilities and community spirit could affect the property values that would be cool.
mensmaximus, Dec 07 2004
   

       Since it's an electronic version you could also have driveways coming out of each property that linked up with a network of roads. That way when you bought a house the board would sense its presence and generate a random reaction from the former owners as they drove off. (We'd need a couple thousand potential reactions in the database to keep it interesting and unpredictable.)
longshot9999, Dec 07 2004
   

       Pastry. The Chamber of Commerce from a town I lived in produced a novelty Monopoly clone, featuring real street names of my locale. Local businesses paid to place advertisements in each of the places. It was a blast to play.   

       An intelligent online version should be even more fun. Would be easier to bake if it asked you for a postal code and country instead of using GPS. But what fun would that be?   

       Lets not forget to use actual tax rates for the local, and adjust initial and "go" cash accordingly.
ed, Sep 12 2005
   

       Bun. You would type in your house's address before you start, so that you could always be one of the nice expensive houses.
dbmag9, Jan 18 2006
   

       There's a level of complexity to it that could make the game very good, or very depressing. Bun.
UnaBubba, Jan 18 2006
   

       One thing that would make it more fun is if you could make your house the Boardwalk/Park Place and then rename the properties to reflect that of your friends' houses. Your friends who live in crappy apartments can be indicated on the purple and the greys.. and then around the board rank the others accordingly.
Jscotty, Jan 19 2006
   

       I don't remember any "greys" on Monopoly - unless that's a particularly smoggy part of town.
phundug, Jan 19 2006
   


 
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