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Monopoly should be less bad now that it’s crowdsourcing a new rulebook
Monopoly is, factually speaking, a bad game. But now the boardgame about greedy banking is trying to set things right after all those yawn-inducing living room snooze-fests, which doubtlessly soured millions of Americans to the pastime of boardgaming before they reached the age of consent. Hasbro, the owner, has launched a campaign to allow fans to haggle over which rules should be changed, because no one ever plays by the rules anyway. The parley is going down on Monopoly’s Facebook page, but the ten rule changes up for consideration won’t exactly set the board on fire. They include: landing on…