seattle: Remember way back when, people voted for

mjarredshelton (

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seattle,
@ 2006-09-14 00:24:00

Remember way back when, people voted for what they wanted their city represented by on the new Monopoly board? Apparently, the people have spoken. Iirc, the picture for Pioneer Square had the Space Needle in it. Edit: The picture is of a building with the top of the Smith Tower poking out behind it.

from the Puget Sound Business Journal:

Pioneer Square in downtown Seattle has replaced New York Avenue in the newest edition of Parker Brothers' classic board game Monopoly.

And players can now travel around the game as a Starbucks coffee mug or a laptop computer.

About 3 million people voted online to determine which landmarks from 22 cities would make it to Monopoly's "Here & Now" edition, which hits stores Thursday. The landmarks with the most votes earned the highest rent spaces on the board.

New York City's Times Square earned the coveted "Boardwalk" -- the most expensive property space. Boston's Fenway Park earned the "Park Place" spot.

Other landmarks that made it on the board include the White House, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and Las Vegas Boulevard.

"We are thrilled that Pioneer Square has been incorporated into the new Monopoly game," said Katie Comer, manager of community development and marketing for the Pioneer Square Community Association, in a statement. Pioneer Square sits between the "Free Parking" spot and the Johnson Space Center in Houston on the new board.

The game also has newly appraised property values -- players landing on Times Square will pay $20 million rent, for example.

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	caraccident 2006-09-14 07:31 am UTC (link)
	Of all the places in Seattle... Pioneer Sq? Really? Was it tourists voting or.. ? (Reply to this)

	tristablue 2006-09-14 01:34 pm UTC (link)
	Strange, you would think they would pick the Space Needle or Pike Place. (Reply to this)

	mr_sadhead 2006-09-14 02:27 pm UTC (link)
	They should change the game pieces to reflect the touristy sensibility. Dibs on the silver bag from Niketown. (Reply to this)

	roberrr 2006-09-14 03:18 pm UTC (link)
	The image of the Space Needle is copyrighted, and I'm betting Parker Brothers or whoever it is that owns Monopoly these days couldn't negotiate a rights deal that they liked with the owners of the Space Needle. But yeah, I'm with tristablue - the Market would have been a much better, more recognizable option. (Reply to this)

	skydancer 2006-09-14 03:42 pm UTC (link)
	That picture is actually the Smith Tower poking above the Pioneer Building. The Pioneer Building is the one on the north side of the actual Pioneer Square (the park with the Pergola) on 1st between Cherry and Yesler. (Reply to this)

	thugg1ns 2006-09-14 04:43 pm UTC (link)
	They had to shoot skyline to avoid all the crackheads. No one wants to see them unless you're playing Ghettopoly. (Reply to this)

	riotdorrrk 2006-09-14 04:49 pm UTC (link)
	you can almost see my office in that pic (Reply to this)

	joshc 2006-09-14 05:20 pm UTC (link)
	the picture used during the voting is posted here --> http://community.livejournal.com/seattle/3935280.html (Reply to this)

	getbacknow 2006-09-14 06:20 pm UTC (link)
	Everyone knows that the orange rent spaces in Monopoly are the best; they get landed on the most, the houses are cheaper and the net profits are much higher. Suck it, Times Square! (Reply to this) (Thread)

emunctory
2006-09-14 07:09 pm UTC (link)

IAWTC.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Monopoly/Strategy

For instance, the Jail square is the most commonly visited space in the game because of the "Go to Jail" direction printed on several cards and the rule that a throw of three successive doubles also sends a player there. Combined with the fact that a player is far more likely to throw 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 when moving away from Jail than he is to throw 2, 3, 4, 10, 11 or 12, this means that the overall probability of visiting an orange property is far higher than that of visiting a red property, for instance. Similarly, because there are only two properties in each of the dark blue and dark purple sets, these sets are visited correspondingly less often.

Among improvable properties (properties that can have houses or hotels built on them), the orange set is far superior to any other: It is visited quite often (it is located at a moderate distance after the Jail square), and property costs are relatively cheap, and the prospect of collecting damaging rents without too much investment is excellent.

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mjarredshelton
2006-09-14 07:16 pm UTC (link)

IDWTC.

in the books I've read and the studies I've seen, the Reds are the best to have. Illinois is the most landed on square in the game and there is also a Chance card telling you to go to one of the red squares. So you get your money's worth by having the Reds.

Also, maybe my math is off, but aren't the odds of throwing a 10 the same as a 5 or 9? Both have 2 ways for you to reach their sum. I'm not saying this helps my claim, I'm just curious as to why players are "far more likely" to throw a 5 or 9 than a 10.

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emunctory
2006-09-14 07:31 pm UTC (link)

Well, you already read why orange is better than red above, it's because of their proximity to Jail, which is the most frequented space for all the reasons above. You're right that Illinois is the most landed on space, but orange is the best monopoly to have, especially since the best return on investment is the third house on New York Avenue.

"The Orange ones have the biggest bang for the buck as far as building goes." http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/monopoly/monopoly.shtml#Conclusions

Here's why you're more likely to roll a middle sized number than a very high or very low number: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice#Probability

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	emunctory 2006-09-14 07:39 pm UTC (link)
	About the different ways to roll dice... 5 can be rolled having (2,3), (3,2), (1,4), and (4,1) -> 4 different ways. 9 can be rolled by having (5,4), (4,5), (6,3) and (3,6) ->4 different ways. 10 can be rolled by having (4,6), (6,4), and (5,5) -> 3 different ways. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	getbacknow 2006-09-14 08:21 pm UTC (link)
	Look at a Monopoly board...when you're in jail, you could potentially land on any one of the three oranges, but only one red space is less than 13 spaces away. As for dice rolls, it's basic stats: you're more likely to get a moderate number than a high or a low number. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	gomezticator 2006-09-15 01:41 am UTC (link)
	New Monopoly is like New Coke. CRAP. Plz to scuttle this terrible idea and revert to the original, kthx. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	esk 2006-09-15 07:12 am UTC (link)
	relax, the old monopoly is still here. this "here & now" version is only a limited edition. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	gomezticator 2006-09-16 01:02 am UTC (link)
	That doesn't mean that New Monopoly still isn't crap and still shouldn't be buried and forgotten forever. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	romulusnr 2006-09-15 06:21 am UTC (link)
	The best part of the new Monopoly is that you can buy the White House (green, where (heh) Pennsylvania Avenue normally is). This edition sure lives up to it's "Here and Now" moniker. (Reply to this)

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