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March 5, 2007 12:03 AM
Broken: Monopoly box art
Paul Henkelman points out:
I recently noticed that on both this image and on most standard Monopoly boxes, the token rests on "Boardwalk" and the dice read "9."
But this is impossible. In order for a token to move nine spaces and land on Boardwalk, it would have to start from the "Go to Jail" space.
P.S. On the Spanish version of the game box, the dice read "8."
This really is being overly picky. Maybe that's someone else's roll. Maybe this turn is starting FROM Boardwalk, not ending on it. Heck, if we're going to be this precise, maybe the dice are actually mid-roll and, albeit unlikely, currently with their faces all perpendicular or parallel to the board.
Please roll again.
-Evan
I'd also think you could have rolled a 9, landed on Chance and got a card that says "Advance to Boardwalk"
What's more broken is that some folk play Monopoly on a GameBoy! Seems dull to me.
For that matter, perhaps the player rolled a nine, landed on Chance, and drew 'Take a walk on the Boardwalk' :-)\
(on preview of comment, I see I got beat to the point)
The token is the car - the player is obviously on the run from the cops. Just as well they weren't the boot or they'd be in police custody as we speak.
Oh, for fuck's sake, people!
Obviously, they just put a token on the board and threw the dice down for the photo. Who cares?
It's a good spot, but I think saying "most" boxes have the same error is a pretty huge overstatement.
It looks like the vast majority of box fronts of that style use the 8, not the 9:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/browser.php?itemtype=image&gameid=1406&tag=BoxFront
In fact, the only box front I can see that shows 9 is the Korean one: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/55219
The current edition doesn't even have any dice on it:
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00000IWCT.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
It's this type of thinking that leads to the overuse of asterisks and small print in packaging and design. As proven by the 'Chance' comments, it is not broken, and furthermore is a nice 'Ooo, look what I found!' at best.
I'm surprised the Korean version uses 9 instead of 8. Koreans consider the number 8 to be extremely lucky.
I'm surprised that no one has complained that the board itself is "broken". The square following "GO" should be vertically above what is on the box here. Where can you "go" from here?
_@_v - what's broken is that you'd assume the token on boardwalk is even related to the roll of the die - there'd be more than one player in a monopoly game wouldn't there?
_@_v - btw, if you have a "get out of jail free" card, wouldn't you able to just ignore the go-to jail space? haven't played in a while...
You missed the fine print on the other side:
* depicted scenario is a dramatization and does not represent a session of actual game-play. Though your experience will be similar, we do not guarantee that you will encounter the same situation as depicted. In the event that you do, please inform us so that we may recall all packaging and amend this notice.
Broken. The game will use a random number generator, not real dice. It should show a function of the form f(x1, .) -> x2
Umm, why is ncej being ignored? If you land on jail, you don't go to jail, you land on "Just Visiting". This space works like any other. The box isn't the slightest bit broken.
There are two spaces being confused here. Jail/Just visiting are 11 spaces away from Boardwalk. Diagonally opposite from Jail is a "Go to Jail" space. From that space, it is nine spaces forward to Boardwalk.
But, I agree it is unbroken. The dice roll may not relate to the token on Boardwalk, it may have been reached on a 9 roll leading to a "Take a walk on the Boardwalk" card or it may be the roll to leave the space.
Two things:
1) You have way too much time on your hands
2) Game Boy Advance is printed next to the word "monopoly."
Hmmm.
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You actually noticed that?! Its a cool find, though
Posted by: chewy5000 at March 5, 2007 12:28 AM