New Monopoly game uses debit card, no cash (KIDS WON'T EVEN HAVE TO COUNT!)

Yahoo! / The Associated Press ^ | 7/26/06 | Ray Henry

[Sacajaweau]

Can you use your houses as collateral at a Casino?

[Gay State Conservative]

If they designed Monopoly today,the street names would be from Chappaqua,NY or Martha's Vineyard.

[Red Badger]

Kids get no conception of what money is!!

They've always been that way!..........

[Tzimisce]

I need to make "Socialist: the Board Game" where players try to buy up/sieze through legislation all the private property on the board. Run out of money? Raise taxes and buy more. Once all the property is gone the game is over and everyone loses.

Coming for that Politically Incorrect winter holiday that everyone celebrates....

[Drew68]

The 'money' just disappears after a while.

I remember the game stores always sold packages of Monopoly money.

[Erik Latranyi]

The New Kelo Monopoly!

You are building up properties, building houses and you get a card that says your property is being confiscated and will be used for a shopping mall.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I have neighbors who are playing this game for real. They probably won't be my neighbors for much longer.

[Drew68]

People who write checks in store lines (holding everyone up) ought to be shot.

LOL! Very true! I write one check a month --my rent check. All my other bills are debited automatically out of my bank account. I use my Visa debit card for most purchases and I always try to keep at least $80-$100 cash in my wallet just to be on the safe side.

[Spktyr]

Yes, now, tell me where you are going to obtain monopoly money at 7pm on a Sunday, when you decide you wish to play the game...

[ga medic]

Debit cards have nothing to do with debt. They are just like writing a check. Debit cards are not credit cards.

[YankeeGirl]

I totally disagree!

Physically handling money will be almost obsolete. Not a big loss; money is dirty and can more easily get lost and stolen.

Folks must understand that debit cards ARE money and know how to use them wisely. It is easier to track what you spend and see where it is going. Just requires different skills, more like balancing a check book.

Also requires restraint, as ALL your money may be accessible though you aren't carrying it around. However, its not as easy to get into debt as with credit cards, when you run out of money, the card will be declined.

[paulat]

See #9

[steve-b]

money is dirty

That's why it needs to be laundered, silly.

[7thson]

That's funny! How did you catch her?

[CygnusXI]

You all are so jaded, lol

What I remember about Monopoly...

Between the money, 4 players, and the property it was a freaking nightmare trying to A) find a table big enough, or B)Keep it all straight, and prevent your neighboring player from "oops, was that your 500?".

This is great news!!
:p

BTW I have the Playstation version and my wife and I were just whooped by the AI player this weekend.. ><;

[buccaneer81]

Calculators in the classroom was the beginning of the end.

Not for doing Trig in the 10th grade. I would have been toast without it.

[Zakeet]

Did this electronic monopoly money stuff myself about 30 years ago with an HP calculator. Then, like an idiot I taught my daughters how to do the same thing. They not only learned basic programming skills, but found out they could clean out their old man in about one tenth the time.

[YankeeGirl]

Ouch! Walked right into that one, didn't I?

[RockinRight]

It's just a board game...if parents only rely on Monopoly to teach money management, there's already a larger problem.

[Hydroshock]

Mine did, or at least that was the closest to any money management teaching I got, I paid for it in my 20's. But the hardest lessons are the easiest to remember.