I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, so today I'm going to talk about a concept of the game that I'm not sure people think all that much about, although it's a very key part of the game.

So let me start by saying that I believe I was seven years old the first time I played

Monopoly. Way back in 1974. And let's say I broke up Monopoly 40 years later. How different

was the current monopoly from that first game of monopoly?

Now, clearly, I'm older, and so how I approach it is different, but the actual game,

how different is that game of monopoly? And the answer is, there's a little tiny changes.

You know, free parking used to be a house rule, and I think now it's in the rules,

and they've changed a few pieces around.

But the board is, I think, identical to how the...

I mean, yes, I can buy all these newfangle monopolies.

But if I just want normal monopoly,

I think the board...

I mean, while they've redone the board,

the actual properties are all the same.

And the base game, 40 years later, is pretty similar.

Now, let's say somebody played magic and went away for two years.

And two years later, they play magic.

It might be radically different.

You know, I mean, the core core of the game hasn't changed, but so much else can change.

The cars have changed, the mechanics have changed, maybe some rules have changed, you know,

the color pie could have shifted.

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