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04/07/2011
Issue 51

Courchopoly

In the old day before Nintendo wiis and Sony playstations and the internet families used to play board games for entertainment. Even though many board games still exist there are a couple of classics that have endured like Scrabble and Cludeo (Clue). Who can forget accusing professor plum of murder using a candlestick in the library? Or with the absence of a dictionary trying to thing of a believable definition for a word you just made up that goes over a triple word score.

As I was crap at spelling and my big sister had the level of deductive reasoning that would put Gill Grisom to shame my favourite game was monopoly. A frightening simple game designed to teach little entrepreneurs the benefits of good old fashioned ruthless business. Where else can you grind your family members into dust while cackling with joy every time one of them lands on your property and gleefully demanding money. If the game had been created today there would probably be rules from monopolies and mergers commission stopping people from buying all the properties on the right side of the board.

Nowadays there are so many different versions for every country, city and even football teams to such an extent that I have become a sort of monopoly purist. I can’t stand this continual dilution of the brand (which is why I've dilluted it some more). I still have a 1960s standard edition board for the United Kingdom complete with pre inflation musty smelling money, lead characters and “you have won 2nd prize in a beauty contest collect £10” cards.

So why am I going on about a board game about property management? Simple really, a ski resort is like a game of monopoly. Now anyone who has played will know, on the first revolution of the board, there is a race to land (and buy) everything that is not already purchased including the prized green and dark blue squares of Mayfair and Park lane. Who ever sticks a couple of hotels on these squares will invariably monopolise the game and win. (Rather like a ski resort) Now I think I’m right in saying that most ski resorts are owned by a handful of families that used to be farmers until they realised how much their land was worth. They built hotels and restaurants and used their profits to buy more hotels and restaurants and before you know it if you want to stay in the resort most of your money will end up in their pockets. Do not pass go, do not collect £200.

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The editor

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