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Monopoly Der Hobbit

Eine unerwartete Reise

Once again a game of Monopoly has been adapted to a film, this time to The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey; and this edition, too, has been adapted to the topic as usual and was reworked a bit. The board is nicely decorated in the style of the film, but keeps up the basically standard allocation of spots; Start and Jail are still there as is parking; the roads have been changed into dwarves and other characters from the film; train stations and power stations have turned into weapons or locations from the film; Community cards and event cards have become “Rätsel-Spiel” and “Zwergenschatztruhe”. Houses and hotels have not been adapted to the topic, they remain simply houses and hotels as usual, albeit in gold and silver.

The playing pieces, on the other hand, are items from the film: There is Gandalfs Hat, Thorins Key, Gloin’s Axe, Filis Bow, a spike and of course The One Ring.

Contrary to other license or theme editions there is no rules expansion or additional rule specific for the special topic; the rules, too, have only been marginally adapted to the topic: The rules still mention roads and tax spots in connection with „Zwergen füttern“ or „Höhlenrücklage“, which is the name for the spots on the board.

Fans of Monopoly will like this edition, too, the playing pieces are collectors objects anyway; but the overall impression is mixed; too obvious is the feeling of „Mr. Monopoly meets Mr. Beutlin“ : What a pity, this could have been done better instead of producing a visually different version of a well-known standard game with well-worn rules; so it appeals mostly for collectors in one genre or the other.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 90+

Designer: not named

Art: not named

Price: ca. 40 Euro

Publisher: Winning Moves 2012

Web: www.winning-moves.de

Genre: Roll & Move with economics topic

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Inconsequent implementation of the topic, especially in the rules

Playing pieces and board spots adapted, houses and hotels not

Seems somewhat unfinished

Compares to:

Other editions of Monopoly

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0