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A Get Out of Jail Free card is an element of the board game Monopoly. It has since become a popular metaphor for something that will get one out of an undesired situation without any repercussions. It has since become a popular metaphor for something that will get one out of an undesired situation without any repercussions.
In the game of Monopoly, one of the cards that you can get by landing on 'Chance' or 'Community Chest' is 'Get out of jail free'. This does exactly what it says on the tin: if you are sent to jail in the game, you can use the card to 'escape' immediately, without having to pay the $50 or wait the three turns mandated by the rules.
Since there is no "Jail" space and thus no Get Out of Jail Free card, there is instead a special exception card for taxes and traffic fines. Players start with $2,000 (rather than $1,500 as they do in Monopoly), and earn $250 (not $200) for completing a full circuit of the board. In the 1974 edition of the game, basic dollar amounts were ...
Reppke was not allowed to collect his $200 when passing Go because he was taken to jail. Real jail. One neighbor later quipped , "I guess he takes his Monopoly pretty seriously."
A Minnesota man thought board game tactics would work in real life, but he was mistaken. The man, wanted on an outstanding warrant, apparently handed a "Get Out of Jail Free" Monopoly card to ...
In early 2010, Hasbro began selling the Free Parking and Get out of Jail add-on games, which can be played alone or when a player lands on the respective Monopoly board spaces. If played during a Monopoly game, success at either game gets the winning player a "free taxi ride to any space on the board" or "out of jail free", respectively.
If there's one thing you can say in favor of Monopoly Millionaires -- the new Facebook version of the classic board game -- is that you don't have to worry about the designated banker swiping ...
Mr. Monopoly is the mascot of the board game Monopoly. He is depicted as a portly old man with a moustache who wears a morning suit with a bowtie and top hat . In large parts of the world he is known, additionally or exclusively, as the Monopoly Man , "Rich Uncle" Pennybags , Milburn Pennybags , or the Monopoly Guy . [ 1 ]