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Everyone who owned Mouse Trap played it properly once, learned that the game itself was fucking lame, and then just proceeded to fuck around with the contraption part.
I've played Operation, but I guess I never played it right because I don't even remember cards being part of it. Or maybe I just played a newer version or something because you removed the parts based on spinning a thing.
Return question: Do you or do you not use the "Free Parking" rule in Monopoly? IE all money paid to the bank goes in the middle of the board or under the Free Parking spot and you can claim it all if you land directly on Free Parking.
Free parking rule is complete ass and makes the game take ages. People going bankrupt faster is a positive.
Alternate Free Parking rule for faster gameplay: Landing on Free Parking immediately bankrupts the player.
I prefer Antimonopoly.
It's a real game, look it up.
I love how Wikipedia says the idea for anti-monopoly goes back to The Landlord's Game, which is what became Monopoly in the first place. 🤣
I remember we had that when I was a kid with all the other family board games, but I don't remember anyone ever playing it.
IMO, the "free parking rule" is necessary for a healthy game of Monopoly. Otherwise, the game will drag on for hours with players just slowly whittling away at each other's properties until eventually everybody has been completely bled out.
However, that's an intentional part of the game design; the original Monopoly was meant to showcase just how agonizing unchecked capitalistic greed can be, so games that run a long time with Pyrrhic victories are completely intended. But if you've got a life to live, you need to play with a few house rules to speed things along.
Not even once in my case.
We always did free parking, but I pretty much only ever played Monopoly with my best friend who lived around the corner, so if the game took a week, it wasn't a big deal.
It did not help that neither of us were willing to be vicious to the other. It was a very friendly monopoly game with occasional jabs.