Monopoly (1933) – Accessibility Teardown
by Michael Heron on 22/06/2019 in Accessibility Teardown, Board Game Accessibility
Table of Contents
- Version Reviewed
- Introduction
- Colour Blindness
- Visual Accessibility
- Cognitive Accessibility
- Emotional Accessibility
- Physical Accessibility
- Socioeconomic Accessibility
- Communication
- Intersectional Accessibility
- Conclusion
Game Details
Name
Monopoly (1933)
Review
Meeple Like Us
Complexity
Medium Light [1.64]
BGG Rank
20747 [4.38]
Player Count (recommended)
2-8 (3-6)
Designer(s)
(Uncredited), Charles Darrow and Elizabeth J. Magie (Phillips)
Buy it!
Amazon Link
Version Reviewed
Unlisted on BGG
Introduction
I feel it’s important for a site like this to offer occasional points of auditability – reviews that don’t get written because they were needed but rather because they let readers calibrate their tastes against the arguments made. For a long time now I have reflexively dismissed Monopoly in many of the posts on this site and I think it’s only fair that you get to see the reasons that underpin our view. For that reason, we now have our first one star review on the site. You know what games we think are The Best – Chinatown and Scrabble. Now you know what lies at the other ends of that scale.
However, accessibility always needs to be served and we don’t review anything on Meeple Like [...]