If you hit the wrong buttons and turn the card unit off, it turns it off and all your game goes with it.It does feel a bit less strategic as you have to buy or auction every property you land on (or pay rent!). Perhaps the fact all your seem to do is scan your card with almost every go, makes it less of a game.I like it the fact it’s quick set up and you can just start playing!.It’s made nice and easy by just swiping your bank card and the relevant ‘community chest’ card. Some of the ‘community chest’ cards are interesting things like increase and decrease rent on the whole side of a board, or of neighbouring properties… or even pick a player’s property and it becomes yours. I did generally have a slightly better bank balance though!
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So the board gets filled with properties rather quickly, and your bank balance decreases accordingly! Well, with our games, I seem to have more luck landing no free parking, and the ‘community cheas’ cards, along with properties my hubby bought while I was landing on the blah cards. If you land on a property you either have to buy it or auction it. It’s also now a four player maximum game. The players pieces – the old style player pieces have gone, no more hat, boot and dog, replaced with an aeroplane, helicopter, ship and car. Here are some ins and outs of the new Monopoly: Ultimate Banking Edition The pieces:Īs with the ‘old’ game there are properties, however now, there are only one type and you move the piece along when the rent increases. I guess it takes away the teaching money aspect of Monopoly to kids.
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All you do is swipe your card and it will tell you how much you have left, pay for your purchases, tell you how much you owe if you can’t pay your full debt for a property you land on. Why? Well this version uses bank cards, the card reader tells you everything, it tells works everything out. Well, I was intrigued to try this new version, a card reader means no more money counting, counting and recounting. We had that same multifaceted relationship, it was just such a long game unless you put a time limit on it. It’s a game which we all either know and love, or hate. Now, everyone knows monopoly and has played it for years, it’s a standard classic board game. We are part of the Hasbro Toy Tribe and were sent the new Ultimate Banking Edition of Monopoly to try out.