Looking to spice up your party life? Do you have a basic understanding of how the popular board game, Monopoly works? Do you have some cardboard? What about some markers and some random bottle caps lying around?
Have you even thought about playing Cardboard-opoly with your awesome drinking buddies?
Cardboard-opoly works much like The Cardboard Game Richie and I described in a previous post only this time, we are adding elements of Monopoly to it!
It is very simple!
First, you start with a large piece of cardboard and draw a large rectangle in the middle. Next, you create a bunch of squares along the perimeter of the rectangle. At each corner, please add “Go” for one, “Jail” for another, “Free Parking”, and then “Go to Jail” as is shown here.
In true Cardboard Game fashion, the empty spaces are filled in with rules thought up by the players. When they roll the dice and land on a space, they may create their own rule for that space. In my opinion, it becomes more fun once the spaces are filled with rules.
Much like Monopoly, this game does not end immediately. Rather, it has the luxury of ending whenever the players agree upon doing something else. But once the spaces are filled, the game can still be brought out for other parties on other days.
If you happen to have a deck of cards on hand, do you also recall that Monopoly has four railroad stations available for players to possess?
This is totally optional (though I like it has an idea anyways), but have a game of “Kings” play in the middle of the board. You do so by drawing (or writing) a symbol representing the game, “Kings”. On here, I drew four crowns.
Whenever a player lands on a crown, that player must flip over a card from a deck in the middle of the board. Whatever card gets flipped, that card’s rule in kings applies to the present game.
The deck of cards can also be used for additional rules such as “Flip a card and drink for however many seconds it equals” or possibly a quick round of “Up-And-Down the River”.
The possibilities are endless when it comes to creating your own set of rules!
But as always, please drink responsibly and always respect someone’s wishes if they do not want to participate in the game or do a rule. You should always be drinking with your friends and friends are respectful of one another.