Welcome to a Monopoly Blog

 Hello and Welcome to my new blog!

If you have been following my writing you already know that I start a new blog every year with a new topic and full on emersion in the subject, hoping to learn the most that I can before moving on to the next one. This years topic took a lot of brainstorming and souls searching. I recently joined a weekly boardgame group. Let's say after the first night I was hooked. I was really impressed by the subject matter and complexity of the games. I had been toying with the idea of a boardgame blog since November but was having some trouble finding my niche.

At first thought, I was interesting in writing about and reviewing games from $5 below and the dollars store. However, I don't have lots of friends at my disposable to play boardgames. Also unknown games can be a hard sell, when more popular games have more players interested.

Next I turned to solitaire games, or games for only one player. I found much less selection to choose from, some seemed childish and I prefer to play video games if I am playing alone. I did notice that some boardgames are starting to offer a one player expansion in order to practice and improve your strategy. I did find an interesting list from Board Game Halv. 

Then I looked into British/UK themed games. Being of British Guyanese decent, I was raised by two anglophiles and England has always been the considered the "mother" country. There seemed to be too many games to choose from, and I would never be able to narrow it down to 12 games.

Thinking back to my first night at the boardgame group, the organizer said "We don't play Monopoly here." Which was fine by me, I've played that game to death. It was one of the only games I did play as a child besides chess, checkers and scrabble. In spite of this, Monopoly seemed to keep popping up in everyday life. First was the Monopoly Coca Cola edition I purchased to decorate my new Coca Cola themed kitchen. Then was the Monopoly pinball machines that turned up while researching my pinball project. I do have an affinity to the Monopoly board since I'm a huge fan of Atlantic City and can appreciate the art of various editions. Lastly "Advance to Boardwalk" a boardgame from Parker Brothers released in 1985 was recommended to me on Ebay. That's when I started to research various editions and versions of the game. Even the origin of the games had several conflicting and interesting stories. In my version of events Monopoly found me and asked me to spend 2022 writing about it.