Jaunted

Here's how the global Monopoly game will work: You'll start with $3 million in Monopoly dollars. You'll then be able to buy any street you can find on Google Maps, whether it's a major boulevard or a rural road. Some spots will be costlier than others: London's Downing Street, for example, is said to have a starting pricetag of $231,000, while Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue is rumored to start at $2 million. If someone else gets to your favorite street before you, you'll be able to make an offer to buy it away from them. If you're feeling frugal, fear not: Once you start building, the cash will start flowing. A house will automatically earn you $50,000 in rent a day, the Daily Mail claims, while a skyscraper will pull in a cool $100 million daily.

The game will only last about four months, so it's understandable that their site keeps crashing today while everyone attempts to log on and buy coveted stretches like Downing Street. By the end, we're sure that everyone will be trillionaires to the umpteenth power and it'll be time to call it quits, because the amount of our daily rent takes would exceed our mathematical capabilities. Nonetheless, bring it on Hasbro; we can't play Beatles Rock Band every second of every day for the next few months.

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· Monopoly City Streets [Official Site]
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