Editing Monopoly (section)

==The Lost Rules==
(AKA "The Entire Second Half Of The Game")

The original "Landlord's Game" instructions contain additional rules - conspicuously missing from all subsequent clones of the game sold under the name "Monopoly" - to enable players to salvage the session after the [[Capitalism|whole experience inevitably turns to shit.]]  Those which may still be readily applied to the modern game (the board's been ''heavily'' simplified since 1906) are excerpted and briefly summarised below.

At any time during the game, a "flat land tax" may be implemented by a vote of two or more players.  After this vote, [[Communism|title deeds lose their value and land (squares) may no longer be privately owned,]] but otherwise players retain their buildings and other holdings and the game continues under the new rules:
* All land rent is paid into a public treasury to be used for public improvements.
* All railroad fares and utility rates are paid to the individual owners as before until the public takes control of them, at which point they become free.
* Land becomes public; buildings remain private.  The land rent for landing on any square is always paid to the public treasury.  If a square has a building on it, additional rent is paid to the owner of the building.  Players may build on any undeveloped square they wish on their turn if they can afford it, provided no other player bids against him.  The bid money is paid into the public treasury. 
* Once sufficient money has accumulated in the public treasury to do so, the utilities are purchased by the government and become free.  The railroads then follow, one by one, as the treasury can afford them.
* After all utilities have been nationalised, once money accumulated in the public treasury reaches a set threshold, it is used to build a free public college on one of the corner squares, and then a second on the opposite corner squares.
* After all utilities have been nationalised and two free colleges built, additional money accumulated in the public treasury is used, each time it reaches a set threshold, to increase everyone's salary upon completing a circuit of the board.
* If a player goes to college he takes a blue card marked "education" and when he gets four of these cards he exchanges them for a card marked "professor."  At the game's end, this is counted amongst the other achievements of each player during the game to determine who won, "winning" in the original game being more akin to "achieving the most meaningful things with one's money" than "ruthlessly driving everyone else into financial ruination."

The full set of 1906 rules and original game board may be found [https://landlordsgame.info/games/lg-1906/lg-1906_egc-rules.html here.]