More specifically, Monopoly Deal is the meanest parts of Monopoly. The slow, painful crush of an inevitable winner in Monopoly becomes the electric shock of Deal.

It’s Monopoly distilled to its very basics: collecting properties, charging rent, building up your fortune and outlasting your rivals. The aim is to complete three sets of properties before your opponents. On your turn, you draw two cards and then play three: adding a card to the properties in front of you, playing a card to your bank (action cards can instead be turned into money) or using an action card. What’s particularly impressive about Monopoly Deal is the fact that it manages to still feel like Monopoly. No need to check how much cash each player starts with or argue over how Free Parking works. Setup - especially for a Monopoly game - is startlingly quick: shuffle the whole deck together, deal five cards to each player and you’re ready to go. Cards can be properties from around the board, arranged into their familiar colour-coded sets, money cards or action cards. Monopoly Deal is a card game version of the classic board game that takes everything you’re familiar with from the original and turns it into a single deck of cards. fun? Monopoly haters, prepare to eat your top hat token: Monopoly Deal is a Monopoly that’s good. Yet, somehow, there has only been one Monopoly game that’s really worth playing - and, dare I say it, that’s actually. There’s a Monopoly for every pop culture mainstay from Fortnite to Warhammer 40,000, every place from Swindon to Coronation Street, and even self-aware editions that make light of the game’s interminable length and bank-robbing cheaters (without actually making it any more enjoyable to play). There have been dozens upon dozens of Monopoly variations released since the board game formerly known as The Landlord’s Game was rechristened almost a century ago.

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