Hello Readers,
Most of us here have completed our education journey and now looking for ways to earn in this world to work on our responsibilities and grow financially. Many of you must have gotten stressed out in this age and at least thought once about how beautiful, easy and innocent your life used to be in childhood days. Playing all day with our siblings, cousins or friends without any stress of going to work daily or whatever work you are doing, enjoying reading stories or watching cartoons or movies for hours without any guilt, playing board games or outdoor games and cycling miles with friends, yes we all have been there that most of us spent their golden days in their childhood while enjoying the best time with their life. As we grow up, education comes first to steal a large portion of our happiness, then by the time we finish our education, a new challenge of finding a well paying job or starting a new business, or seeking online jobs grasps all of our attention and we keep going to sleep with a bag or worry about tomorrow. I am currently at this stage and there hasn't been a day where I miss my school or college days mainly because of the strong social I used to stay back in those days. But time is an evil entity, it slowly changes your life bit by bit without making you realize and I know that one day, this never ending work life will end one day but by then I will be too old to enjoy life once again.
Board games I played in childhood
Overall, I had a very beautiful childhood and also had a great school life. As I used to live in a Town area, I knew all of my local school friends and together we used to play cricket after school or on weekends and also get involved in playing board games like Ludo, Chess, Monopoly, Carrom, Playing cards or other types of games and every time we would start, we would not stop even after playing for a couple of hours. One such board game that I still remember playing for a long time in my childhood days is Monopoly and I guess many of you have also played this board game because it is an old game and popular globally. It is a classic board game where you roll 2 dice, move your button around a board and buy properties and build houses, workshops etc on them and the main goal of this game is to become the richest player in the game and make other players money less. Why does it sound so familiar with the current financial system? Anyways…
MONOPOLY
Back in the 2000’s when I was still younger, Monopoly for a long time was the main attraction of our game nights. I used to play this game with my friends and cousins who would gather around one fine day, sit together and start plotting their own master strategies and trading properties and beat others in the process all while sharing a lot of laughs. But as I thought about it today, by playing Monopoly we were not just about having fun, as it was also a sneaky teacher to us and taught us how money actually works in this modern world. Without even realizing it, we were learning about making smart decisions, learning the power and then managing money and planning for the future, all of these important skills that we learned will be there in our head for life and obviously beyond the game board.
The Game Mechanics
Now talking about the game itself, Monopoly is a real-estate board game for two to four players generally. Monopoly, which was first launched in the United States during the Great Depression era, is the best-selling privately patented board game in history and it is still being played globally and is a popular choice among board games. In this game, the player’s goal is to remain financially strong while forcing opponents into going bankrupt by buying and developing pieces of property.
Each side of the square board generally is divided into 10 small rectangle boxes representing specific properties like railroads, utilities, a jail and various other places and events. At the start of the game, each player is given a fixed amount of play money initially, then the players move around the board according to their throw of a pair of dice. Any player who lands on an unowned property may buy it, but if he or she lands on a property owned by another player, a rent amount must be paid to that owner player.
Certain non-property squares require the player after landing on them to draw a chance card that may be favorable or unfavorable for the player. If a player becomes successful in creating a monopoly, for example - all of a particular group of properties, then that player may purchase improvements for those properties such as a house, garage or warehouse, industry, etc and these improvements will add substantially to a property’s rental fee. A player continues to travel around the board until he or she is bankrupt and if anyone is in bankruptcy or without any money or assets, it will result in elimination from the game. The last player remaining on the board is the winner.
I guess you have also played this game in your childhood or school days and let me know if you have done it in the comments below.
That’s it for today readers and I will be seeing you all in my next post.
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You definitely said it with the education part man, it steals a huge portion of our childhood and the funny thing is it's not like we need all that we study... Come to think of it... By the time you start high school to the time you finish, the world would have advanced to a point where what you were taught in the beginning is basically obsolete
I love your choice of game during your childhood 🥰🤩 never stop having fun