Monday, February 04, 2008

Monopoly Monopoly

I didn't think it would ever happen. I finally found someone who likes to play Monopoly as much as I do. I guess it makes sense that it's my son, Jacob. Eli got Monopoly Junior for Christmas so we played that a few times. It seemed to be a little simplistic for a 6 year old, so I decided to try regular Monopoly with Jacob. He loves it! And since Eli's game is called "Monopoly Junior", Jacob has taken to calling the old version "Monopoly Monopoly". "Dad, do you want to play Monopoly Monopoly"?
He is doing really well learning the math of it too. He's calculating change from rents and purchases, doubling rents of monopolies without houses, adding mortgage values, etc. And he's getting good at the strategy part. Good fun!