I can’t believe that I won at Monopoly last night. In what might be the best Monopoly game I have ever played, I finished the game with $3,910 and only one monopoly. I was pretty amazed because at one point I was down to about $60 with just my unimproved lots. Somehow, in the course of that turn, I ended up making enough money to put hotels on my monopoly and then two people landed on the spaces, owing me about $950 each.

Since we were playing the fast version of the game, where the first player to go bankrupt ends the game and then the remaining players count out their wealth, we had an interesting thing happen.Instead of that player going bankrupt, offers were made for the property, in order for debts to be paid off. Instead of having him go bankrupt, everyone else bought his stuff for a higher price than the bank would have offered and the game continued.

So, after about two hours of playing, we had a great time and I still can’t believe that I won. Previous to this, my brother Brian always won at the game so it was nice to have someone else come out on top!