Nett been made, simplistic Monopoly variant for improvement

Monopoly Junior is directed by its very simplified rules and the design of children from the age of five years. It is useful if the children can count to ten, because higher are the values ​​that can be reached by rental of roads, is not.

Included in the box are full-color and very pretty game pieces made of flexible plastic (cat, dog, boat and car), a stack of bills (with 1's value), the board, a guide, a cube, event tickets and instead of houses and hotels Pappkärtchen with pictograms of the matching game pieces.
The game board is simplistic, there are no railway stations and the electricity and the water works in vain. All blocks consist of two - instead of the known three - roads. The value of the streets is - just as in the classical model - low. Starting with 1, 2, 3, 4 (or 5 for the dark blue streets funfair and water park), many bills for the Bank to be payable accordingly. That a player is one the respective road, it indicates the fact that he puts one of his Piktogrammpappkärtchen to the respective street. If you come to a street of the enemy, you have to pay the face value as rent, include the players both streets, the double value accordingly. Loser is the one who runs out of money first.

My 7-year-old Filius and I have tried the game for two yesterday in a beer garden, and identified the following positive (+), negative (-) or neutral firmly (+/-) points:

+/- There are no property maps (thus logically enfällt the opportunity to take out mortgages on the land, but this is understandable in the young target group).

- There are only bills in 1er value (additional 5 Series would be appropriate) - also see the bills out, as if they were copied. Black print on white paper.

+ The event cards to get by luck on a much needed road.

- We had to cancel the game because the street distribution failed fairly homogeneous and the game has therefore become quite boring over time (for two players Monopoly Junior is therefore only conditionally).

+/- There is no bin for the "Bank" (with only a monetary value, of course no big deal).

- In the play happening Pappkärtchen slip frequently with the character pictograms.

Conclusion: There is significant room for improvement for Monopoly Junior. From the classic Monopoly rules only a very stripped down version remains. Whether it's educationally particularly useful introduce also quite young players on the monetary issue, the parents have to decide for yourself. By the time my seven year old was bored. The Monopoly Junior was produced in Switzerland, the game pieces and the dice come from China. Average three stars from us.

We will continue from time to time one of our (designed for adults) Star Wars Monopoly play or the very pretty set put SpongeBob- or Disney Monopoly variants.