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What game has ended the most friendships? Monopoly or Risk?
- Thread starter Dalek
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I've never actually finished a game of monopoly. Just played until everyone got frustrated and bored enough to quit.
So I say that one.
So I say that one.
Monopoly shouldn't be ending friendships if you're playing by the real rules, not "flood the economy and ruin the flow of the game to make it a slog" house rules.
(that, and people making bad deals to spite others not even winning)
(that, and people making bad deals to spite others not even winning)
Back in 2006, I was playing Monopoly with a group of coworkers. One of them had lost his bicycle and he bankrupted me. I told him that I hoped he never got his bike back. Everyone was stunned.
then we laughed and they continued the game
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Secret Hitler will give ya trust issues (until you end up on the same team several rounds later and take the W as fascists)
Risk. I've seen people get raging pissed. Something about world domination gets to your primal core.
We accidentally made a friend cry playing Secret Hitler. I mean, she kinda deserved it, but we still felt bad.
Definitely Risk. If you lose in Monopoly it mostly comes down to rolling the dice and dumb luck. It's more of a passive death. If you lose in Risk, someone else deliberately and methodically annihilated you until you lost every last territory. It's usually a slow, painful death that breeds increasing resentment throughout the entirety of the game.
Monopoly is the worst, I just played a 4 hour game with my parents and my girlfriend. Why was it 4 ours long? Because my girlfriend had 1 property of each color (minus one) and she refused to trade any of those. If you are getting 200 per go-around you are not losing and the game is forever stuck. I had to trade with my mom and then with my dad (2 bad trades btw) so that she realized she was going to be the only one without a color pack and started trading as well. She ended up winning because my dad was extra unlucky, had 3 train stations since half hour of game and NOONE STOPPED ON ANY OF THOSE THE ENTIRE GAME. lol
Risk also sucks to play with my gf because she is always more worried about losing than excited to win so it means you are in for a long boring match.
Risk also sucks to play with my gf because she is always more worried about losing than excited to win so it means you are in for a long boring match.
11th grade year, some dude at my school organized a few nights of RISK that kind of exploded and before you knew it large groups of the highschool were organizing play sessions. I had never played RISK before until then, and I didn't even know the dude originally who organized it all. So I basically made friends through risk.
By comparison, if someone suggests monopoly to play, I question why I would want to be friends with someone so dull.
By comparison, if someone suggests monopoly to play, I question why I would want to be friends with someone so dull.
Monopoly no contest. Ngl I have seen it make people unimaginably greedy and bring out true evil, just to spite others.
Mensch ärgere Dich nicht (roughly: 'Do not get angry, man') is made to end friendships. Because you will get angry.
Lol, she just kinda worked herself up into a cry because she couldn't handle all the people yelling over each other telling her what choice she needed to make. Poor girl's kinda sensitive.
I challenge anyone to come up with a game that ends more friendships than:
I don't think we went a single night of playing without someone getting pissed off and walking home in the middle of it.
I don't think we went a single night of playing without someone getting pissed off and walking home in the middle of it.
Funny story. In college I had a group of friends playing through Risk Legacy. On our fourth game we had unlocked certain changes to the map that allowed Oceania to be connected to Madagascar, via a new island. As it turns out one of the mission cards I got was worth 2 stars and there was a star next to my starting location (Oceania) and we start the game with one star. In this version of Risk if you get 4 stars you win. After spending 40 mins remembering the rules and setting up I found myself with a card that said I had to be in control of 5 islands to win the game(2 star card). So on my first turn I took the island connecting to Madagascar and Madagascar, bringing my total to 4 (Oceania+Japan from setup). I had put all of my troops on this advance , everything I had, and I made a massive offensive from Magascar to England, winning by a single point on the dice roll for England. The game was over on the first turn. People were beyond furious and the board was flipped, hehehe. We never ended up finishing the campaign.
Monopoly,
My friends/family don't understand how to play Risk and my attempts to explain it step by step just ends with them saying "Lets just play monopoly instead."
My friends/family don't understand how to play Risk and my attempts to explain it step by step just ends with them saying "Lets just play monopoly instead."
This is the true answer. I have seen this game just drain the souls out of people. Of the two listed though I would say Monopoly. If you get a full table Risk can actually be pretty fun, while Monopoly is just generally tedious.
But the game is just so long and boring. I'll admit I'm one of these people because I just want the damn game to end.
Playing with House Rules (specifically, Free Parking giving you money) *makes* the game take longer though. Monopoly isn't supposed to have a recurring economy, it's a game about bleeding the other players dry.
