A new, international version of the popular board game ‘Monopoly’ is out next week.
The new version of the game has 22 international cities included. The most heavily represented nations are (drum roll please!) - Canada and China. Three cities each from each of those two nations are among 22 selected by more than five million fans of the game who voted online for the best cities.
Of these, Montreal received the most votes and will be paired with Latvian capital Riga as the most expensive property group on the board. Next in rank are Capetown, Belgrade, and Paris. Last-placed of the 22 was Poland’s Gdynia and no German, Indian, Russian, or Scandinavian towns made the list.
Click here to see if your city made the cut. What cities do you feel are missing from Monopoly’s new international edition? Which places would you include?
Tags: Cities, Monopoly, Real Estate Prices
August 20th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
What? No Amsterdam?
August 20th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Cool that Montreal received the most votes.
But it would be nice if the high-rent properties matched up somwhat with the real world - like Tokyo and London.
Riga?
b.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:52 am
Don’t the makers of Monopoly want to sell to the huge market in India? Delhi, where are you?
And Gdynia! I had to Google to discover it is in Poland (and I’ve been to Poland 6 times). Warsaw, where are you?
Expect a speed revision of this “International” edition of Monopoly.
August 21st, 2008 at 6:36 am
From the press release - “During a six-week period in early 2008, MONOPOLY fans from around the world voted for the global cities that they would like to see represented on the first-ever World edition game board. More than 5.6 million votes were cast for 70 world-class cities, which determined 20 of the 22 cities featured in the game”
Hmmmm, I wonder if someone was gaming the system (particularly ironic given that’s it’s all about a game.)
Eastern Europe has a notorious reputation as a center of organized cyber-crime, and is known to be the source of deployment and control for many thousands of zombie computers around the globe.
Anyone have a better explantion for the inclusion of places like Riga, Gdynia, and Belgrade, at the expense of much larger and more iconic cities?
b.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:14 am
As CNN noted this morning, this contest was not terribly hyped in the U.S. - perhaps the reason that only NYC made the list.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I forgot Kyiv (Kiev) in the Ukraine.
That makes four out of 22 cities in Eastern Europe.
Seems statistically improbable to me.
Am I missing something?
b.
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:12 am
I wrote about this too (and referred to this blog post and comments). The thing is quite similar to the Eurovision song contest - Some things are simply more important to the people in Eastern Europe than in the West…