Monopoly fanatics only.

[The Backlash Cometh]

How much tax do you have to pay if you step on Baltimore Avenue with two hotels and three houses on it?

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. When I was in the Army overseas, many of the medics were "Risk" fanatics.

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Sometimes we would have weekend-long (chemically-augmented) games
and occasionally we would hook two and three boards side-by-side and
have a sort of "Conquer the Whole Damn Solar System" thing goin' on.
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We took it WAY beyond its normal structure/rules.
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"Kamchatka to Irkutsk... roll two" is still one of my favorite non-sequitors
to say.
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[The Backlash Cometh]

2. How incredibly creative.

It's like three dimensional chess.

[kentauros]

7. We'd play "Nuclear Risk" when we weren't playing "Nuclear War"

(card game; you'd like it.)

Here's another cultural reference to Risk, via Eddie Izzard:
"Hitler never played Risk when he was a kid"

:P

[pokerfan]

10. I'm not beaten yet. I still have armies in the Ukraine.

Kramer and Newman are on a subway car, the Risk board sits on their laps.

Kramer: Oh, stop stalling. Come on.

Newman: I can't think, there's all this noise.

Kramer: Or is it because I've built a stronghold around Greenland? I've driven you out of Western Europe and I've left you teetering on the brink of complete annihilation.

Newman: I'm not beaten yet. I still have armies in the Ukraine.

This comment perks up the ears of what appears to be a Russian immigrant.

Kramer: Ha ha, the Ukraine. Do you know what the Ukraine is? It's a sitting duck. A road apple, Newman. The Ukraine is weak. It's feeble. I think it's time to put the hurt on the Ukraine.

Ukrainian: I come from Ukraine. You not say Ukraine weak.

Kramer: Yeah, well we're playing a game here, pal.

Ukrainian: Ukraine is game to you?! How 'bout I take your little board and smash it!!

The Ukrainian pounds the game board, destroying it and sending army pieces flying.

[MiddleFingerMom]

13. The final stronghold always (or at least most often) seemed to be...

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...Australia. One lane of entry -- two armies every turn -- you could
lurk there and build up a massive defense... never enough to WIN the
game, but enough that you'd be the last target.
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Ironic, given the "On the Beach" setting of post-Apocalyptic life.
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[pokerfan]

14. Yeah, Australia was always first and last

If (and it was a big if) one could seize Asia, then both Asia and Australia could be defended by holding just three territories: Ukraine, Middle East and Kamchatka. Ukraine was key as anyone with designs on Europe would want this territory. If I had Australia, I would start pouring extra armies into Ukraine and start pushing people out of Asia. Let everyone else fight over N/S America and Africa. Then, if that plan backfired, 'accidentally' knock over the board. :)

[Duer 157099]

3. Tax? I thought that was rent?

Haven't played the game recently, but I sure spent a good portion of my youth playing it.

I thought the only "tax" in the game was the Luxury Tax card (or was it a spot?) and things like that.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. You might be right.

I played only to take BoardWalk and Park Avenue plus the four railroads. If someone beat me to it, I conceded the win.

[pokerfan]

9. There's a Luxury Tax space and an Income Tax space

Can't remember if there were other taxes in the cards or if those all fines.

[MilesColtrane]

5. Only in America could a game invented by a Quaker to demonstrate...

the principles of Georgism evolve into a celebration of avaricious capitalism.

[rug]

6. Go Directly To Jail.

Do Not Pass Go

:spank:

The only way you're getting out is to roll 17 or pay $500.

[madinmaryland]

8. You can only have one hotel on it, and you only pay rent when you land

on Baltimore Avenue. Funny, but I was on Baltimore Ave and Cemetery Lane this afternoon at the cemetery.

:shrug:

[pokerfan]

11. not the way we played

Woody: I'm buying Renton Railroad and I'm putting up a house.
Frasier: Woody, you can't put a house on railroad tracks.
Woody: Why not? My Uncle Jim used to do it all the time back in Hanover on these tracks near where we lived. I mean, it wasn't a real house though, it was just a fake one made out of sticks and canvas. Yeah, he used to hide in the bushes and take pictures of the engineers' screamin'. He was funny. But he had a twisted side.

[madinmaryland]

12. That's funny!