Tony Lee, my internet partner in crime, discovered online Monopoly. I loved that game as a child and I desperately wanted to play it again (except none of my "cool friends" think it's fun enough to play ... bastards).

We finally got around to playing a game today ... and boy was it exciting! We played HEADS-ON EXTREME MONOPOLY .... somehow Tony got both the purple and orange monpolies naturally BEFORE I even had one. After he started building houses and hotels on them, I got my first monopoly on Baltic/Mediterranean ...

At this point, I think the game is over. Tony has one WHOLE side, I have dwindling reserves of cash, and I have no monopolies.

I avoided "Tonyland" (as he called it) quite a few times ... and then it happened. My second to last possible monopoly got locked out as Tony secured Marvin Gardens (ARGH).

But ... I got Park Place. And with Boardwalk, that's a pretty scary monopoly. Putting in everything I had, I put in all my money into hotels on my two crappy monopolies and hoped I wouldn't land on "Tonyland" ... and it worked.

Tony landed on Park Place (CHA CHING) and then I avoided "Tony Land" a a few more times (amazing how I did it, I have no clue). Then... it came. Tony landed on Park Place AGAIN with hotels. With a large reserve in cash, I gave a favorable trade to Tony (my two red properties for his one light-blue property). He acquiesed (ooh, I saw Pirates of the Carribean ;)) and I now had "Royland." Right after the trade, Tony landed on Mediterranean, which sapped out his GO salary. Then he landed on Connecticut, which I had conveniently just built hotels on.

Man, what an exciting COME FROM BEHIND victory!


Forget the orange properties. Park Place + Boardwalk are HOT!