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The other, a "Chance" card, shows him booted out of a prison cell in a striped convict uniform. More modern versions of the game have more simply illustrated cards with a set of four jail bars, with the middle two bent outwards, implying a prison escape. Players move around the Monopoly board according to dice throws. Most of the tiles players ...
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."
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 ...
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.
The Illustrated Newspaper drawing and the Chance card both show a prisoner in stripes getting out of jail. The number of stripes on the prison uniforms match in both drawings. Of further support is the characteristic handlebar mustache on both the character on the card and every photo of Yerkes.