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On-line property investors rush to buy the best Monopoly property in the world

A massive on-line, multi-player version of the Monopoly games has been launched by toymaker Hasbro and Google. The free game will last for four months and uses Google Maps as the playing board.
 
The toymaker claims it will be the biggest game of Monopoly of all time and will allow players to purchase almost any street in the world.

The goal of the game of chance, like the real-world version, is to earn money on real estate and become the richest property magnate.
 
New players are given three million Monopoly dollars to build their virtual empire with every street in the world, in theory, available for purchase.

Once a player has taken control of a street, they are able to charge rent and build new virtual properties.

Streets can also be traded and sold with other players.
 
There are even the usual Chance cards but the on-line version is different in that the allow players to sabotage neighbouring rivals by building rubbish dumps, prisons or wind farms on their property to reduce the rent value of their neighbours.

Players can only remove a hazard by bulldozing it off their property by using other Chance cards.
 
But players will also have to wrestle with other hazards, one of the earliest of which was the whole thing crashing such was the demand when it went live last week.

Hasbro worked quickly to resolve the technical problems.

The game, called Monopoly

 

 

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