Now you can add your bullshit rules to Monopoly, too
Not satisfied to desecrate the Scrabble dictionary with crazy crowdsourced make-’em-ups, Hasbro has invited players to tamper with the rules for another of its iconic board games, Monopoly. The company is soliciting nominations on its Facebook page for a new house rule that will be included in the official Monopoly rules guide starting in 2015. While this new wrinkle will not affect the official rules, it will be quasi-official enough to be included with every copy of the game that Hasbro prints.
Hasbro said in a press release that some 70 percent of Monopoly players never read the rules, and that might be a conservative estimate. Not many games of Monopoly follow the official rulebook. For instance, few people observe the rule that an unowned property must be put up for auction if a player lands on it and chooses not to buy it for the listed price. (This applies even to two-player games: The player who originally landed on the space can still bid on the property if an auction ensues.)