Anti Monopoly

Description: Drinkstuff / Age: 8 Years+ / In the real business world, competitors and monopolists work hard to increase their ... more

Anti Monopoly ... incomes - but they go about it in different ways.Competitors sell more goods at a fair price to make a fair profit.Monopolists, on the other hand, destroy their competitors first so that they can fix prices above fair, competitive levels to make excessive profits.In Anti-Monopoly players are divided into two groups before the game starts: competitors and monopolists. The players follow different rules (depending on their status) in their quest for big money. This method of play is a revolutionary idea for games. In all other games players follow one set of rules. It is this idea of movement and choice which allows Anti-Monopoly to be the first and only game in history which clearly distinguishes between the actions of competitors and monopolists!Are you for free enterprise?You charge fair rentYou can build on any streetYou can create supply and demandYou can end a price warAre you for building monopolies?

Newest Review: ... check the rules during the game which was annoying. The main problem with Anti Monopoly seems to be that the game has been ... more

... weighted to allow both sets of players an equal chance of winning. I was led to believe that as a competitor you would either win by a huge margin or lose miserably but that just did not happen. It was impossible for any player to win outright within a reasonable timeframe and we always ended games by counting up the money and property to see who had the most assets. The main problem seemed to be that the rents charged were so low that they never made much of an impact, in traditional monopoly when hotels are built ...more

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Anti Monopoly: Dont Mess With The Classics (689 words)
by - written on 19/11/08 (Very useful, 177 readings)
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Most of us will be familiar with the classic property game Monopoly. Anti monopoly aims to provide a game which is more realistic and claims that by multiplying the amounts in the game by 1000 then it reflects real world prices. Anti monopoly was developed by economist Ralph Anspach in 1973. The story behind the game is fascinating, Anspach faced considerable opposition and court wrangles to be allowed to sell his game as it infringed copyright rules. He took Hasbro to court claiming their monopolisation of the toy market was unfair and was eventually allowed to use the name under license, a case of the little man taking on the establishment and ... Read the complete review