actually, you sound like a winner. a bitch is someone who steals monopoly money from the bank when the players are out of the room :)

I hadn't heard of it, but I'll look into it. :) I like fast paced games too...but no matter what I'm playing I play to win. And I prefer to play with others who are also playing to win. Wow...I sound kinda bitchy. Luckily, I'm okay with that.

I adore fast paced games. I will say, that I also like strategy. Have you ever played Cashflow? It's from the Think and Grow Rich guy. There are two levels(that I'm aware of) to this game. Monopoly is based on a zero sum game. True Capitalism is not. Cashflow, during most of the game, you are motivated by your own decisions to succeed. In the end, there is a winner, but all players will enjoys the other players' routes to success. It is the same, in that you are building wealth. But there are many more choices and nuances. The average game time is the same, but it keeps unpatient people ,like me, engaged.

I think its a fantastic game. I think every American home should have one!!!!

cuz we can??? why isn't it disappearing?

Oh he was a geek, well that explains it then. :) I guess them playing Risk should have tipped me off. Monopoly is a slow paced game and playing with someone who just wants to get it over with is no fun. I enjoy the strategy and the squirming. lol

How come we're still commenting on this post if you want it deleted?

I asked my husband this question. His response is no-he wouldn't have dumped me. 1.he was a geek and there were only ten girls in the engineering school to date that didn't wear a head cloth 2.if I had done this to his RISK game, he would have made sure to not let me come in contact with the game, nor would he have played the game with me. It's true, married 27 years, never played RISK. Closest we've come is Diplomacy.I have a short attention span and am not patient. I cannot imagine a strategy as Itisntluck employed:
"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.

Good thing your (future) husband didn't see you messing with their game pieces or he may have dumped you right then a there...once a saboteur always a saboteur.

Once it gets deleted....I'll tell you.

why?

I second that.

I play by the rules too. What's the point otherwise? If we even thought about cheating while playing a game (when we were kids) my Dad would kick us out of the game. "I don't play with cheaters." That's probably where I get it from. That whole apple not falling far from the tree thing... And hey...I deleted this post...why is it still here?

why is the author's name deleted from this post?

well, he does, but I have to say it's probably because my attention is on something else. You should play him. I think you're in the same town and he never finds worthy opponents.
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...

OK, you win for the best lines of the day

Now that's brilliant!!!

You hate Monopoly? Your son must have beat you so bad ..................

I'll stick with Monopoly, but I can't get anyone to play with me. I go strictly by the rules and I normally win. When I was 16 years old I was playing Monopoly with my girlfriend. I was winning and prolonging taking her completely out just to see how she would react. I excused myself to use the restroom, went down the hall but didn't go in. I peeked at her from around the corner and caught her stealing money from the bank. I dumped her right then and there. Good thing too. She has been married and divorced at least four times that I know of. Once a cheater, always a cheater.

I just bit the bullet and bought one. I'm thinking a New Years Eve board game night may be in order.

I gave it to my son who is a monopoly nut and my sister-in-law's family. They LOVED it! I hate monopoly and so it wouldn't probably make it into my house even for kicks. I liked that part of the proceeds went to the wounded warrior project