Legopoly
An amusing anecdote from orgtheory.net
Some years ago, when they were little kids, my children developed a hybrid game.They’d taken their Monopoly board over to a friend’s house. They’d remembered to bring back the board, but they’d forgotten the houses and hotels. What to do? So, they started to use Lego building blocks in place of the houses and hotels. But, with the Lego pieces offering more affordances, they immediately began to construct ever more elaborate structures. Even when the Monopoly pieces were returned, the Legos were much preferred and they played it again and again that year while they were first-graders in Budapest. Was it Monopoly? Was it Legos? It was “Legopoly.” Over time the rules evolved away from bankrupting one’s opponents and toward attracting customers to the plastic skyscrapers that towered over the Monopoly plain.
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Bonus points to anyone who comes up with a price/rent structure for building lego skyscrapers. My attempt: extra layers = cost of house, rent is increased by cost of house + 25% (cheating encouraged).
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