Top 5 Reasons You Hate Playing Monopoly

You know its true, Monopoly is the game everyone Loves to Hate. I can almost here the groans from households around the World as Grandparents pull out the game from closets they collected dust from 364 other days of the year. But why is this so? Why has this game turned from the most popular in the world to the most despised? I wanted to know, so I searched around and have come up with what I think are the top 5 reasons people hate playing.



5. Everybody Cheats

When I say everybody, I mean everybody. You can't tell me that you haven't NOT told someone that you landed on their property when they weren't paying attention to the game. Everybody's Guilty! Admit It!






4. Keeping Up With That Stupid Paper Money

I mean what is this stuff made out of, tissue paper? The slightest exhale can be enough to send your entire stash floating around the room and onto the floor. And yes, I know that they've come out with a new credit card version of the game where you don't need the money anymore, but really, who wants to go out and spend $40 on ANOTHER Monopoly game to be played once a year when you really just have nothing better to do.

3. "Well, Somebodies Gotta Be The Banker and        It's NOT Gonna Be Me!"

Ah, the first words always uttered before every Monopoly game since its creation. The first ten minutes of Monopoly aren't even spent playing the game, but arguing about who gets to be deemed the "Bank B****" of the game. The looming possibility of having to deal with everybody complaining about how you gave them the wrong change back seems to bring out the worst in some while others result to the "you owe me one for that thing I did for you a year ago" excuse. Needless to say, there has to be one unlucky person and  that person is now the first in a line of many to come that wishes they were doing something else.


2. No One Ever Wants To Make A Deal!!!

It always happens, you have two of everything on the board but no one wants to give up that ONE property you need for a Monopoly. Ever turn you ask, and you ask, and you ask and always its the same answer, NO! Or, if you do finally get a yes, it usually comes with some crazy stipulation like "If I land on your property I don't have to pay", which just ends up creating an infinite game were nobody pays anybody!!


1. IT TAKES TO LONG!!!

The shortest possible Monopoly game takes only 21 seconds with 4 turns and 9 rolls. Unluckily, I have never been apart of such a game and probably neither have you. Most of my Monopoly games either end up with everyone quitting or falling asleep 4 hours in. It just seems like the game goes on forever, not to mention that you already know who's going to win halfway through the whole ordeal!

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