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So I stumbled across this thing today and what the fuck.

Normal people don’t know about Monopoly auctions?!

Normal-people Monopoly is even more boring than the version I thought we were all complaining about?!

(Yeah, don’t believe this guy’s thesis, Monopoly with auctions is still boring. Although, that might be because my family

1: always buys property we land on if we can afford it, on the grounds that it will be useful as a bargaining chip if nothing else. As such, auctions don’t actually happen that often.

2: aren’t very willing to screw each other over, because we fear starting a revenge death spiral. (We got Munchkin a couple months ago, and it turns out we are not the right kind of people to play it properly. (Except maybe Brother, who insists that he is just enough of an asshole to play Munchkin.) Munchkin-as-played-by-people-who-fear-revenge-spirals is still kind of fun, but there’s a clear sense that it’s not what we’re supposed to be doing.)

Oh, and 3, we suck at bluffing, possibly because we don’t try very hard when playing casual board games.

…okay, so it’s possible Monopoly with auctions could be fun if you weren’t us. But regardless, what the fuck.)

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