Monopoly Deal Card Game – More Fun than Monopoly Itself!
On behalf of Hasbro Singapore, a PR consultant contacted me and offered to send 2 of their newly launched games from Parker Brothers (a subsidiary of Hasbro) to me so that I may share the joy with you guys. One of these games that I got from the mail man was called the Monopoly Deal Card Game.
Monopoly Deal Card Game!
Monopoly, being the most commercially successful board game in the world has little effect on KuKuNehNeh. Thinking about it, she is probably the only person that I know who hates playing Monopoly. So it took a miracle for her to sit down and play a few games with me and it probably helped that Monopoly Deal is actually card game instead of a board game.
Cards that can turn the game around!
The game is played by drawing and trading cards till a player manages to collect 3 full sets of property cards. As simple as it sounds, I actually realized that Monopoly Deal requires less of luck and more of strategy when compared to the board game. With 2 players in my case, the games are short, which lasted around 15 to 20 mins per game and are pretty fast paced. All players get to stay in the game until a winner emerges and players who are seem to be on the verge of losing can actually turn around the situation with a little luck and some strategy. If not for the fact that we had to turn in earlier for the night, we would have carried on playing past the 4th game that we had.
The only cons that I see is that the ‘Shuffle Shaker’ that the game provided seemed to be more gimmicky than functional.
Just say No to the Shuffle Shaker
It was super noisy when I tried shuffling the cards with it and the cards are much better shuffled if I do it manually.
The above doesn’t take anything away from the fact that Monopoly Deal is a compact card game that you can easily carry around to provide a fun and fast paced game for 2 – 5 players. KuKuNehNeh thoroughly enjoyed the game although it may also be attributed to the fact that I lost 3 games to her out of the 4 that we played that night.
Monopoly Deal Card Game (with Shuffle Shaker) is sold at Toys “R” Us and major departmental stores in Singapore at S$21.90. For ages 8 and up!
Watch out for the next game that I will be reviewing from Hasbro!
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May 6th, 2009 at 9:59 am
My nephew was playing this game with his dad and it looked like fun and he’s only 10. I might consider getting this if it’s really nice.
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May 7th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
@Mintea> It is fun and pretty easy to learn as well. Go through the short instruction manual once or twice and the cards itself are pretty self explanatory. Go grab a set!
May 9th, 2009 at 1:33 am
OMG! I just bought this game lah! Without the shuffler one. BF played in during reservists and said he likes it, so I bought it!
It’s damn fun!
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May 11th, 2009 at 10:21 am
@Claudia> Good choice to buy the one without the shuffler! I haven’t tried playing it with more than 2 players so I am wondering if the dynamics is going to be very different.
November 9th, 2009 at 12:54 am
Hello.
Is there nothing monopoly hasnt done lol, i swear soon itll be called mono. Firstly because it is less for them to include, first they get rid of money, and now the board. Secondly because mono meaning one, thats all that’ll be included, a piece of paper with the name written on.
Dan.
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:32 pm
To make it more fun when playing in two people, try do add a homerule to it. My wife and I only consider a win when the player has at least 4 complete sets plus one which has at least a house.
Enjoy-it!
Rony – London
January 23rd, 2010 at 6:52 am
Monopoly brings back great memories of my child hood! I play on the pc every now and again, and I have the iPhone app. Bascially i’m just a monopoly addict! Nice post though thanks!