The Buckets by Greg Cravens for March 22, 2013

But there can be cheating. Keep a close eye on the banker.

I have to admit. I skimped on my research for this cartoon. ARE there cheat codes for Monopoly online? Everything ELSE is online these days.

Let me be a bit more specific. No cheat codes for the board game. If it’s electronic Monopoly in any of its many manifestations, then yes, there are cheat codes.

I don’t call them cheat codes … I call them “Efficient Winning Codes”.www.cheatcc.com – there are several ‘console’ and PC games and each has a cheat. :D

Are they playing with the new set? If so, who got the lucky cat token?

National Lampoon, ca 1974, once had a Monopoly Cheating Kit, with things like a brown strip you could put at the top of a property so it wouldn’t match the rest of an opponent’s monopoly, and a Chance card that said, “Go to Jail. Go directly to Jail. Pass Go. Collect $200.”

My sister’s strategy was, when she was several bucks ahead, to yell that I was cheating so that Mom and Dad would break up the game. Of course, she considered it cheating that I could calculate 10% for Income Tax instead of always paying $200, and she couldn’t.

There is always the Hobbes method:

http://www.madhattersneverland.com/Blogimages/2011_03_12_calvin.jpg

Sorry Eddie.

Hahahahaha!

xxx

I remember a long weekend where a few of us formed a ‘corporation’ – so that we could attack the one player that seemed to always have lucky rolls. …. It was the only way we were able to win.