Uncle Pennybags

  I stumbled upon this Monopoly set at my local Dollar Tree. Recently prices have risen slightly, this activity set was $1.25. It's small, portable and contains all the pieces needed to play a standard game of Monopoly.

 I found these swanky editions of Monopoly while shopping at Home Goods. These are the traditional board game but much nicer.  The Grand Edition features a wood board and costs 69.99. The Indigo Edition is made to look like a book and comes with Scrabble. This edition costs 49.99.

 I found Monopoly Deal game at Walgreens for $6. This is a fast card game that can be easily learned and played in 15 minutes or under. It's for 2-5 players and all you need is to collect 3 properties in the same color to win. I liked that this version is portable and a fast play. Action cards are reminiscent of chance and community chest cards. For example if you draw the birthday card, other players need to give you money. You can draw the pass Go card, advance to Go and get two extra cards.

 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 ch...