Spongebob Monopoly - the ultimate challenge
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
The ultimate challenge: A total of 3 Spongebob monopoly games were played in a span of 14 hours over two days. Plankton version of course.
First game: Everyone (Elaine, Amos, Kim, Daniel, me and my sister) were gathered on the sleeping bag on the floor of my room excitedly awaiting the Spongebob monopoly and geared with almost zero knowledge of what it is, granted with a few hints and there from the rule *ahem geek* book. Questions were thrown in the air:
"Is the Spongebob monopoly any different from the normal monopoly board games?"
"What is the plankton doing there? Is it one of the counters?"
These were followed by "oohs" and "aahs" over the little pineapple houses and the metal counters moulded by the various characters from the cartoon.
Finally the first round began, with many explanations on what you should or should not do in such an event and such by the experts, Elaine and Amos (kind of feels like most of us do not know how to play a simple game like this here).
Kiasu-ism was a must to grab everything your counter lands on and is available for buying. Hence everybody bought everything possible, not thinking of their respective poverty, which resulted in a nobody-can-build-pineapple-houses state because it was hard enough just getting round the board without stepping on somebody's land and having to pay rent all the time, what more collect two or three lands of the same colour.
With much luck, the winner emerged.... ME! haha.. I swear I haven't been playing monopoly since I don't know when. And while I was rolling in spongebob cash, Daniel and Kim were bickering over the one-dollar notes. Their aim? How many times they can pay rent using solely one-buck notes to each other.
After a long rest, we finally started the second game with much exhaustion,
because, how can we have a Spongebob Monopoly challenge cum marathon with only one miserable game?
So the second game started with a we-don't-know-what-the-hell-we-are-doing attitude and all we really wanted was to get the damn plankton round three bends just so we could all crash for the night. With much speed and efficiency despite our exhaustion, we rolled the dice quickly and moved the counters twice as fast, letting Amos do all the counting for us lazy Arts bummers.
With different sitting positions and with high (well not that high) hopes that our luck will change, we played, moving our counters little by little.
This time our landlord (or rather, landlady) emerged... Elaine! Her trick? Make us eat her glutinous rice just so we can all be sluggish and her luck will change. Daniel became her permanent tenant, having eaten the most of her glutinous rice, and even wanted to pay for season parking all year round.
So one lesson learnt from round two: Never eat something offered by your competitor, especially in a game of serious spongebob monopoly or worse,
Mahjong!
After we crashed for 6 hours or so, we were awoken, or rather Daniel was coerced by my monster of a sister to wake up just so he could play round three with her.
So round three started with the rest of us still half awake and with two miserable counters on the board. Daniel now fully awake and faced with a serious competitor, placed all his wits in this gamble of spongebob lands. In just a few rounds, he had wiped out the utilities and the railways, of course not forgetting the Sally Spitoon which he always buys just to collect the usual ten dollars of rent. However, my sister was making him pay rent for her lands and nobody could determine the outcome yet.
Unfortunately Daniel could not witness the end of the game since he had to leave halfway. Nevertheless Amos took over and turned his title deeds into winning ones. From then on, they fought over who built the most pineapple houses and after a while it was a matter of who had to pay who first for visiting whose hotels. Inevitably, discounts were given to each other.
Despite this, my sister suffered a bout of near bankruptcy and surrendered her troops. Thus Amos emerged the winner of round three, with a smug look on his face. At which, Elaine remarked: "you can only win against a small little girl who is not even half your age."
So the lesson learnt from round three is: Always pick someone not your size.... And then you surely can win!
And thus the ultimate challenge closes here with more promises to hold another one in the near future, preferably one that is guilt-free of course.
11:38 pm
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