Matewis: My experience with monopoly and risk has convinced me to stay away from games of chance :P
grimwerk: There's a secret to Monopoly: cheat to lose.
Always overpay the bank. Slide some of your money under your side of the board. Miscount your steps to land on negative squares. Lie about the contents of Community Chest cards and pay up. You can get away with a lot, as people aren't typically suspicious of negative consequences.
When you lose surprisingly early, you'll hear laughter and "
Wow, Matewis sure sucks at Monopoly." Just leave. Hours later, after the dreary and terrible late game slog, your opponents will pack up, discover your stash, and realize you lost purposefully. Your wisdom will then dawn upon them.
And bonus, people don't ask me to play Monopoly anymore.
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As for the thread, I totally agree. A degree of choice would make these gambling sales more palatable.
Simple, yet briliiant... I am definitely going to do that next time I am pressured into playing monopoly! Thanks!
I love simple victim less underhanded tactics such as these. At my previous workplace there used to be cake days every friday at 10:00, in which a pair of employees (circulated of course) had to bring cake for everyone else. Most of the time there was enough cake to go around as long as everyone only took one slice from each cake, and usually there was enough so that a couple of people could have a second serving. Naturally this was frowned upon.
Also, we all had these little pigeon holes for mail items that was in a room separate from the staff room where the cake was served, and it was common practice for someone that was busy at 10:00 to ask a colleague to put some cake in his/her pigeon hole so that he/she could eat it later. So, the simple solution to getting lots of cake each friday was to always be 'busy' at 10:00 and to ask someone who I knew was going to busy at 10:30 (we had fixed schedules) to put some cake in my mail slot. Then I would simply go to the staff room at 10:35 and help myself to whatever cake remained, which was easier since most people would've left the staff room by that point. Then I would simply sneak my mail slot cake back to my office. Of course it didn't always work, because sometimes there would be someone else in the staff room that would inform me of my mail slot cake having seen my colleague taking out cake for me earlier.
Damn, and now I'm hungry for some cake :P