Geeks geeks geeks

Confession time: we have a new hobby in our house. Getting drunk and playing Star Wars Monopoly. Yeah, you heard that right.

To add to the general geekiness of such an activity, let me give you too more bits of info:

1) Sailor Boy has memorized every random rule Parker Bros. ever devised and can recite them at will. It’s bizarre (I was going to use uncanny, btu since I’m always after him for misusing that word, I can hardly do so re: him). Did you know, for example, that when you bankrupt to someone, you have to immediately pay the bank the 10% mortgage of their property, and then, if you don’t unmortgage immediately, you have to pay that 10% AGAIN when you do? the practical upshot of all of this is that in bankrupting another player, you can, with careful strategizing, be bankrupted yourself to the bank. Did you know that if a player declines to purchase a property upon which she has landed, the property is then immediately offred at auction? It’s UNREAL. SB is also very stingy about not playing by the time-honored tradition of paying community chest funds into Free Parking. Jerk. However, he lets us skip the bizarro auction rule.

And 2) Little Bro #2 is a statistics major, and is always telling me my chances of landing on particular spaces for every roll, and the value of every property based on their relative likelihood of being landed on throughout the game. For instance, did you know that Park Place (or, in the Star Wars version. Coruscant) is the space least likely to be landed on? This is because it is seven spaces (most likely roll) from “Go To Jail” and no one is ever lcoated there.

Between the these two cutthroat players, I don’t have much to offer. I can’t very well advise them about earthquakes near the Water Works. However, despite their careful mathematical posturing in every game, I’ve beaten their pants off.

I love dice.

However, it’s not the best Diversion. After all, I think my snappy chick lit about a bunch of Monopoly geeks is probably a long time in coming. Okay, I just looked at that. What a horribly wretched idea!