3 Aug 2006...02:00

Monopoly Goes Cashless

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Monopoly is a good game. I played it with my family on a weekend away. Of course, we played the Maine edition. I’m amazed at how many different editions there are. In fact, when variations of Monopoly were just beginning in the early twentieth century, homemade games were adapted to where the players lived. The board game has adapted over time so I thought it was interesting when I heard that the British version of the game is replacing the famed Monopoly cash with Visa debit cards. You put the card into an electronic transaction calculator to perform transactions. There’s something though about seeing hard cash for a board game. Otherwise it’s hard to tell how much money you truly have.

Here’s the story.

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