If you land on a Community Chest square in the new St. 亚洲无码 edition of Monopoly, you might draw a card that reads 鈥淪omeone guessed where you went to high school. Collect M100.鈥 And maybe your next rolls will take you to Soulard, the Gateway Arch or City Museum.
First created in 1935, Monopoly is still one of the world鈥檚 most popular board games, with more than 1 billion players around the globe, according to Hasbro, the company that now makes it.
St. 亚洲无码 is one of more than 30 U.S. cities to have its own official version of Monopoly. Other city editions with the suffix 鈥-opoly鈥 have been around for decades but were not officially licensed by Hasbro.
The rules of the St. 亚洲无码 edition are the same as the regular game, except units of money are now Ms. The difference is the locally relevant squares, which are keyed to St. 亚洲无码 instead of the original version鈥檚 streets of Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Instead of landing on Oriental Avenue, for instance, you land on the Hill. Instead of paying $900 for a hotel on Virginia Avenue, you pay M1100 for a hotel in Tower Grove Park.
The game was introduced at an event at the City Museum, which is represented by a square on the board. St. 亚洲无码 Mayor Tishaura O. Jones said, 鈥淲e are super-excited to launch St. 亚洲无码鈥 own Monopoly board with pieces that are so St. 亚洲无码.鈥
A mascot of the familiar Mr. Monopoly caricature 鈥 his name originally was Rich Uncle Pennybags 鈥 emerged dancing from the City Museum鈥檚 bank vault door through a cloud of smoke. The smoke set off the fire alarm.
When the game was first announced in March, the company that is producing it solicited suggestions from area residents for places to include on the board. Jones proposed the Muny, the Fox Theatre and Club Imperial, where Chuck Berry and Ike and Tina Turner performed many of their early shows.
None of those is on the board. Neither are such institutions as the St. 亚洲无码 Art Museum, Ted Drewes Frozen Custard or the St. 亚洲无码 Cardinals and Busch Stadium. Many of the squares are neighborhoods, nonprofit organizations and local landmarks. Others are area businesses that paid to be included in the game.
鈥淲e wouldn鈥檛 be able to bring our board to life without the help of our community partners,鈥 said Katie Hubbard, sales manager for Top Trumps USA, the licensing company for Hasbro.
Along with the regular squares for Go, Jail, Free Parking, Go to Jail, Income Tax, Electric Company, Water Works and Chance, Monopoly: St. 亚洲无码 Edition includes:
- Community Chest: Stray Rescue, Operation Food Search, Big Brothers/Big Sisters
- Brown squares: Eads Bridge, Statue of St. 亚洲无码 (actually, Apotheosis of St. 亚洲无码)
- Railroads: Meramec River, Creve Coeur Lake, Missouri River, Mississippi River
- Light blue squares: The Hill, Soulard, the Delmar Loop
- Magenta squares: 314 Day, St. Patrick鈥檚 Day, Mardi Gras
- Orange squares: World Chess Hall of Fame, the Novel Neighbor, the Rep
- Red squares: Carondelet Park, Lafayette Park, Tower Grove Park
- Yellow squares: Billy G鈥檚, 4 Hands Brewing Co., Clementine鈥檚
- Green squares: Union Station, Marriott St. 亚洲无码 Grand, City Museum
- Blue squares: Forest Park, Gateway Arch
Monopoly: St. 亚洲无码 Edition retails for $45 and is available at many of the places listed on the board, including The Novel Neighbor, 4 Hands Brewing Co., Clementine鈥檚 Ice Cream, Billy G鈥檚, The Rep, Stray Rescue, Marriott St. 亚洲无码 Grand and the World Chess Hall of Fame.
It is available online at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and at .