Monopoly/OccupyMonopoly

The game #OccupyMonopoly was inspired by the "Occupy Wall Street" popular movement in late 2011. The name comes from the #hashtag syntax used by hipsters and poor-people-with-iPhones you keep seeing at these protest movements; the game's author even signed their name '@Wobbles' like a twitter fag would. The game itself is a clever bluffing game of last-man-standing that uses the Monopoly pieces in appropriate ways.

In #OccupyBoardwalk, three or more players take the role of the 1% trying to retain control of the board against increasing demonstrations against their rule. The goal is to be the player with the most money at the end of the game, assuming the 99% don’t successfully occupy too much of your precious property! If that happens, all the players lose.

Setup

You will need 3 or more players, a full Monopoly set, and a book. The author suggests the book should be "Das Kapital" or "Road to Serfdom," but the author is a commie. The players are the 1%! They should use the latest self-help book about flipping real-estate, or a biography of George W. Bush.

Collect all the property deeds except railroads and utilities (they will not be used). Shuffle these cards and deal them all out to the players. Some players will have more properties than others; that's fine, all of you are already filthy rich.

Divide all the cash in the bank evenly between players (you guys ARE the banks after all). Any money left over is set aside with the unused deeds. During the game, players should keep the amount of money they have a secret from other players.

Whichever player worked the least this week will start the game as the 'top hat' player; give them the tophat token (or if you're playing reskinned Monopoly, whichever token looks the most expensive to make).