Hasbro has released a new edition of Monopoly in the UK. The new edition is called Monopoly Here & Now, and it is an updated version of the popular real estate game. Among its updates are the lack of paper money and the inclusion debit cards and a card scanner. Players will swipe their cards and punch in amounts during transactions that would have normally required cash.
The UK edition also updates some of the Community Chest and Chance cards, as well as some of the properties:
But the game had been modernized in many other ways. Some addresses have changed — and the game now includes Kensington Palace Gardens, near Buckingham Palace, and Notting Hill Gate, the setting of a 1999 movie starring Julia Roberts.
Cards that once rewarded players for winning a beauty contest now compensate them for winning a reality TV show. Completing a full circuit around the board is worth two million English pounds, not 200.
While I haven’t been playing a lot of Monopoly since graduating from college, I wouldn’t mind adding yet another edition of Monopoly to our collection. We currently have two different versions, a Collector’s tin and a Corvette edition. I just threw out our standard edition last week because it was damaged a couple years ago during our flood.
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