Monopoly has been banned at all family gatherings.
The older cousins (ages 18+) and adults used to play but as a result of alcohol combined with.. a combination of real money being thrown down (as well as personal belongings being used to pay off debts), personal threats of violence, mafia war like take-overs of entire sides of the board, weird family-made up rules, blackmail, far too many players playing (we used to put two boards together like disney monopoly and regular and make a super monopoly) and of course cheating in all forms..
the game is now banned.
As fun as it was.. I mean, we do adore each other in our dysfunctional loud huge way.. it got crazy lol seriously, once we had like $400 cash, a rather expensive watch, a "coupon" for babysitting and like 1000 frequent flyer miles and 2 shots in FREE PARKING
(The family rule is that you give a fee to free parking if you commit anything on the long long list of "monopoly faux pas": saying it's your property when it isn't, making people wait for you if you go to the bathroom, picking up a piece that is not yours, get caught cheating i.e cheating is allowed unless you are caught, take a phone call etc..etc..)
We have since moved onto clue and apples to apples lol no major problems for now... but give it time :rofl1:
It's funny because especially with the adults, being from haiti, many did not have childhoods featuring board games.. so it's a very new concept lol
but yes, we do like our boardgames around here lol