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The Get Out of Jail Free card frees the player from jail to continue playing and progress around the board without paying a fine, then must be returned to the respective deck upon playing it. As the card's text says, it can also be sold by the possessing player to another player for a price that is "agreeable by both".
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.
You really can't blame the guy too much. After all, we're talking Park Place and Boardwalk. Maybe you've heard, and maybe you haven't, but here's the gist of what we know.
Automonopoli, also known as Go to Jail, is an unauthorised computer version of the boardgame Monopoly, released in June 1983 by Automata UK for the ZX Spectrum.Although other two-player Monopoly computer programs already existed, the developer advertised that their Automonopoli was the first with an artificial intelligence strong enough to compete against and defeat human players.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Waterworks is a card game created by Parker Brothers in 1972, named for the space Water Works in the game Monopoly. The game pieces consist of: a deck of 110 pipe cards, a bathtub-shaped card tray, and 10 small metal wrenches. The object is for each player to create a pipeline of a designated length that begins with a valve and ends with a spout.