Monopoly

Before Risk came along, this was the game most likely to destroy your friendships.

Monopoly: Ruining families since 1935. The game most likely to get you to call your mom a dumb bitch!

a perfect metaphor for society. the Parker Brothers crafted a system by which they could demonstrate that capitalism is needlessly cruel and horribly broken, and people still use it 80 years later because they can't think of anything better to do

Ok, maybe my score is unfair. Monopoly isn't the worst game ever, but its actually bad. The pacing is tenuously slow for how simple turns should be. Unlike other slow games based on your "decisions", Monopoly can be solved. Chess can't. And since Monopoly can be solved, with some moderately intelligent people it's just an exercise in who gets more lucky with the dice. Even on turn 1, most of the Chance and Community Chest cards are valueless. It shows its age in all the wrong ways. Let it die

Monopoly serves as a brutal simulation of the economic injustice Henry George warned against. While we glorify the "hustle" of passing Go to collect wages, the game reveals a darker truth: labor cannot compete with the "unearned increment" of land ownership. As properties are enclosed, rent devours productivity, proving that when essential space is treated as a speculative asset rather than a common right, the economy works only for the landlord—leaving everyone else to pay the price. - Full Review

Boo! Hiss! The anti-life, the grinding gears of capitalism catching small children and bored families in their grasp, the terrible fate passed down from generation to generation to those who've never tasted better!

We still have family grudges from back -93 due to this game. Good fun.

Tedious at times. A certain level of strategy and a great deal of luck. Nobody remembers that this game was written to be social commentary about how bad monopolies were, so if you're not having fun that's supposed to be the point. Nevertheless, it is still the baseline of what board games try to be.

I can understand the appeal but this game is far too tedious and takes much longer than it should to finish a game. It's a testament to how far board-game design has come that this was once the best-selling game of all time.

This game is Evil and creates monsters.