Monopoly The Mega Edition by Winning Moves Games USA, a Bigger and Faster Version of Monopoly with The Speed Die for 2 to 8 Players, Ages 8 and up (1104)

My grandson, Cole monopoly games. I got this one for his birthday. And we’ve had so much fun playing. It is different from regular monopoly.

This version of the classic Monopoly game is a nice spin on the original design. The game has options to speed up the pace and includes additional spaces, new cards, new pieces and new game mechanics. The new pieces such as skyscrapers and train depots change the functionality of the game and make it even more fun to play; you can omit them and play the class rules if you'd like. The board is much bigger than the original and while playing with a group on a larger table provides ease of use, allowing you to reach easier. I love this twist of the original game.Overall:+Cool New Mechanics+Larger Board

Mega Monopoly Additions: One property of every color group plus one utility has been added to the board to make it a square of side length 13 (instead of 10). There are also a few new mechanics including a special third die, train depots, skyscrapers, and bus tickets. The special die allows you to roll and draw a bus ticket for later use or to roll a Mr. Monopoly which allows you to move to the next unowned property after you move the number shown on the two standard die. In this game you can build houses and hotels when you own all but one property in a color group, and can only build skyscrapers on a color group upon owning all properties of a color group. Bus tickets allow you to move to any place in front of your token on that side of the board in exchange for your turn.Gameplay: This version offers more strategy and less luck than the standard version of monopoly resulting in a higher level of interest. Overall this game is more fun to play because of the new mechanic of the Bus Ticket. This mechanic gives control to the player on where their next turn will take them. This allows players to get desired properties quicker and makes the game more exciting than the original.Aesthetics: Overall this larger monopoly board looks great and offers 11 starting tokens that are of high quality. The board folds up nicely and fits compactly into the box which is a little bulkier than your standard monopoly box. The new $1000 dollar bills are nice, and the houses, hotels, skyscrapers, and train depots look great.Customization: If you want to play a longer game of monopoly you could remove the mechanics which were added to the game by simply removing the "third" die. This special die contains one side to draw a bus ticket and two sides of Mr. Monopoly, which moves players to the next unowned property after completing your turn in regard to the two standard dice. Removing this from the game allows you to use the increased board size and starting funds without changing how the game plays in relative to classic monopoly. I have also attempted to replace the special die with another standard die. If you font enjoy the new mechanics they can be adjusted to address your issues. Personally, I remove some of the bus tickets when playing with 3 people because we often finished games before they completely ran out.

I randomly stumbled upon this game one day, and being a huge fan of Monopoly as well as similar types of games, it immediately clicked with me. I heard this from some online forums claiming that with Monopoly being a terrible game, Mega Edition fixes seemingly every problem people may have with it. Of course, I ignored that first part, I was really just interested in trying out this game, the bigger board, and its new mechanics. And I was not disappointed in the slightest.I was able to gather together a group of 7 people, including myself, to test this out. Immediately it was apparent that the bigger would be better to support larger groups of players. The original game features 28 purchasable spaces, and this version has 36. It makes for more balanced games, giving everyone more property to work with, more money to deal with, and it becomes harder for a player to actually get a monopoly. In that sense, yes, it becomes a lot easier to get into. And I can back that up as a good 3 of the people I had been playing with, who originally hated the game, are now a lot more open to playing as long as we use this board. I was personally satisfied as this was a great expansion upon the original that did not fundamentally change how to play the game. Basically in the end, everyone was satisfied with this version of the game.Of other reviews of this game that I have seen, people seem to be complaining about two things - the time it takes to set up, and 'customization' because (apparently?) you can customize the board. I do not care at all for customizing the board, so if that scares you, just ignore it. I'm not even sure what they are referring to, but any kind of board customization is completely unnecessary. As for the set up time, it just takes as long as regular monopoly, and if you know how to do that efficiently, it takes 5 minutes.Overall, there is nothing I particularly find bad about this version of Monopoly. Everything is either an improvement or easy to overlook. Worst case scenario - just apply house rules so you can play how you want. I love, and I hope more fans of Monopoly get to experience this version.

We love the original Monopoly, but Mega is bigger and better.+ Comes with a speed die to move the game along faster.+ More properties are in this version (one additional added to each group/set).+ Skyscrapers are now an option, in addition to the original houses and hotels.+ Bus tickets add a level of suspense to the game.+ $1,000 bills are in play.Overall, the principle is the same, but the strategies need to be changed in order to win. Think “collecting properties and building on them FAST” as one way to get ahead and win.If you’re a fan of Monopoly, give it a try. We prefer this over the original.

The box was damaged when I received it. (Shipping maybe) But the game is fun for the whole family!! It makes a great gift.

Fun! A tad faster than regular monopoly,

Llegó tal cual lo que prometían, es una excelente versión del juego en extendido, que divertido fue construir rascacielos.