MONOP(6)

💖 MONOP 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about monop — that's the Monopoly game from the Games Manual, and yes, it is exactly what you think it is 🎲👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

monop [file]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one optional file, no drama 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so monop is giving major Parker Brother's Monopoly energy — it's a little program that runs a whole Monopoly game and monitors a game between 1 to 9 users. one player? nine players? both iconic, both valid 💅

it just assumes you already know the rules of Monopoly, because honestly? you do. the game follows the standard rules, with one little exception, and it's kind of a big deal:

if a property goes up for auction and there are only two solvent players, no auction is held, and the property just stays unowned. periodt. no auction. 🚫🔨

and here's the thing that lowkey makes this game unhinged in the best way: monop lends the player money. so yeah, you can absolutely buy something you cannot afford. main character spending 💸✨

but the second you go into debt, you have to "fix the problem" — aka make yourself solvent — before play can continue. and if you literally can't? your property reverts to your debtee, whether that's another player or the bank. brutal but fair 😭

also you can resign at any time, to any person or to the bank, and that puts your property back on the board, unowned. girlboss exit strategy 🚪💨

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🦋 a little quality-of-life note 🦋

any time a question wants a string — like a name, a place, a person — you can type ? to get a list of all the valid answers. life-changing, honestly 🔥

and ngl, it is not possible to input a negative number, and it is never necessary. so don't even try it bestie 🙈

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🎀 A Summary of Commands 🎀

• quit — quit game: this lets you quit the game. it asks you if you're sure. (it's being polite 🥺)
• print — print board: prints out the current board. the columns have these meanings, and btw the column headings are the same for the where, own holdings, and holdings commands:
  • Name — the first ten characters of the name of the square.
  • Own — the number of the owner of the property.
  • Price — the cost of the property (if any).
  • Mg — this field has a * in it if the property is mortgaged.
  • # — if the property is a Utility or Railroad, this is the number of such owned by the owner. if the property is land, this is the number of houses on it.
  • Rent — current rent on the property. if it is not owned, there is no rent.
• where — where players are: tells you where all the players are. a * indicates the current player. stalker mode but make it legal 👀
• own holdings — list your own holdings, i.e., money, get-out-of-jail-free cards, and property. know your worth 💰
• holdings — holdings list: look at anyone's holdings. it will ask you whose holdings you wish to look at. when you're finished, type done.
• mortgage — mortgage property: sets up a list of mortgageable property, and asks which you wish to mortgage. broke era 💀
• unmortgage — unmortgage property: unmortgage mortgaged property. glow up era ✨
• buy — buy houses: sets up a list of monopolies on which you can buy houses. if there is more than one, it asks you which you want to buy for. it then asks you how many for each piece of property, giving the current amount in parentheses after the property name. and if you build in an unbalanced manner — a disparity of more than one house within the same monopoly — it asks you to re-input things. rules are rules 🏠🏠
• sell — sell houses: sets up a list of monopolies from which you can sell houses. it operates in an analogous manner to buy.
• card — card for jail: use a get-out-of-jail-free card to get out of jail. if you're not in jail, or you don't have one, it tells you so. read you to filth, respectfully 🃏
• pay — pay for jail: pay $50 to get out of jail, from whence you are put on Just Visiting. difficult to do if you're not there. like, why are you paying, you're free 😭
• trade — this allows you to trade with another player. it asks you whom you wish to trade with, and then asks you what each wishes to give up. you can get a summary at the end, and, in all cases, it asks for confirmation of the trade before doing it. no take-backsies, you confirmed it 🤝
• resign — resign to another player or the bank. if you resign to the bank, all property reverts to its virgin state, and get-out-of-jail-free cards revert to the deck. resetting the whole timeline fr 🧚
• save — save game: save the current game in a file for later play. you can continue play after saving, either by adding the file in which you saved the game after the monop command, or by using the restore command (see below). it will ask you which file you wish to save it in, and, if the file exists, confirm that you wish to overwrite it. protect your progress bestie 💾
• restore — restore game: read in a previously saved game from a file. it leaves the file intact. non-destructive queen 👑
• roll — roll the dice and move forward to your new location. and if you simply hit the ⟨RETURN⟩ key instead of a command, it's the same as typing roll. lazy mode unlocked 🎲

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Ken Arnold — the legend, the moment, the blueprint 🫶

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🍓 FILES 🍓

• /usr/share/games/bsdgames/monop-cards.pck — Chance and Community Chest cards 🎴✨

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💀 BUGS 💀

no command can be given an argument instead of a response to a query.

so like, you can't be slick and pre-load your answer. it's gonna ask, and you're gonna answer. the end 💅

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and that's the whole page babes 💜 this one shipped with Debian, dated March 25, 1993 — yeah, this game is older than most of us and it's still out here monitoring games between 1 to 9 users like the icon it is. stan a vintage classic, fr fr 🌸🎀🦋