Obamanomics Opoly Game
Posted by deleted 11 years, 4 months ago to Entertainment
We bought this game for dear friends of ours, who now live in another State, for Christmas this year. We have to yet buy one for our own family because we wanted to wait and hear how they liked it first. (Our guinea pigs you might say.) I awoke this morning to a raving review from our friends who played the game with their extended family last night. They sent me a picture of the two final players. (I have cropped out their faces). I'm curious if anyone else has played it yet.
When I was in college, my boyfriend and roommate would play these very long games of Risk. the moves would take ages, and then they would carefully place the board under the bunk beds when they had to study and pick it up the next day. that dang game! so every time I was over there, I would be sitting on the bed and I would ever so carefully smack that board with my heel so the pieces would move. I was hoping to end the game all together, but I only started arguments between them over sabotage. I'm still married to the first guy though...
I used to live in one of those "Live Better Electrically" homes in the Garden of the Gods. At that time, electricity rates were about $00,1 per kilowatt hour. Circa 1977. I got out of there just in time. Now I'm several miles south.
"I was winning and prolonging taking her completely out just to see how she would react." This is actually a fabulous sentence which a novelist would kill to have thought of first. But, if one were playing a fast paced game, there would be no need for those kind of shenanigans-
it's like, have a command of the rules and use them to make someone squirm, not just beat. itisntluck is probably in the spy business.
From what I understand they will be coming out with expansion packs for the "Community Organizer" and "Hope & Change" cards. (Formerly "Community Chest" --I almost wrote "Cummunity" ---- and "Chance" cards) so I am looking forward to getting those too. (All of the properties (companies) are named after companies that received bail out money, and Boardwalk and Park Place are "Read Road" and "Legosi Place"..vampire twist on Pelosi's name...) Oh, and if you land on the Health Care Tax space, you don't have to pay it, because your opponents have to pay it for you.
I can no longer be "the shoe" as the pieces are different too. So I'm now the money bag piece. My son is the eagle. Anyway...it's a fun way to spend an evening and I'm glad I bought it. :)