The outlandish suggestions on the board, cards, and rules encourage players to express their inner cheater to own it all while they buy, sell, dream, and scheme. Fake a die roll, steal some bills from the bank, and even skip out on rent. Complete a cheat to get a reward, but fail a cheat and pay the consequences!

Such a fun game and the small board makes it go faster. Takes a second to get used to new rules but worth it. Best to play with more than 2 players. the cheating edition cards kind of take the fun out of monopoly cause it makes it so hard to cheat due to the people constantly looking at you and we felt it was too much.

Includes gameboard, plastic handcuff unit, 6 tokens, 15 Cheat cards, 16 Title Deed cards, 16 Chance cards, 16 Community Chest cards, 16 hotels, 2 dice, money pack, bank tray, and game guide.

2018 Monopoly: Cheaters Edition (2018)

The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1903, when American anti-monopolist Lizzie Magie created a game that she hoped would explain the single-tax theory of Henry George. It was intended as an educational tool, to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies.

When U.S. manufacturers created games, they built them to market to parents: to teach as well as to entertain. Progressive writer Elizabeth Magie Phillips created Monopoly in 1904 to teach players about the dangers of wealth concentration.

Perhaps the most enjoyable part of Monopoly is the trading side of things. But you know every game you'll play there is going to be that one player who just won't trade. Free will and all, that is fair enough. However, to win and therefore end the game, players must go bankrupt.

There is no skill involved, as it all comes down to the numbers you roll, and thus what squares you land on. The winning player feels skilled, and has the illusion of making good choices, when really it's all down to the whim of the dice. So actually, Monopoly was never created to be fun.

Cheats on the “approved” list include stealing from the bank, skipping spaces, moving an opponent's token, skimping on rent, adding a hotel you didn't buy to your property, removing someone else's hotel from their property, moving another player's token when it's your turn, and collecting rent from someone else's ...

The top 10 ways fans say they cheat at Monopoly

1. "Pretending your Chance/Community Chest card is a good one, when really it's a bad one."
2. "Fiddling the order of Chance/Community Chest cards so you get good ones."
3. "Bribing other players with real-life rewards for help in the game."
4. "Stealing properties from the bank."

The board game Monopoly has its origin in the early 20th century. The earliest known version, known as The Landlord's Game, was designed by Elizabeth Magie and first patented in 1904, but existed as early as 1902.

On December 31, 1935, the now ubiquitous winner-take-all board game Monopoly was patented (Patent Number 2,026,082). Since that day, it has been translated into 37 languages and evolved into over 200 licensed and localized editions for 103 countries across the world.