Travel Monopoly
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Tedious, overlong, but about as classic as anything gets, buying everyone's favourite boring board game was an unexciting inevitability, but I at least managed to surprise myself by going for the portable version. When I saw them reduced to Alibaba-style prices in Morrisons – without the associated guilt of supporting criminals and the carbon footprint – I ultimately decided not to resist.
It's all a bit fiddly and cheap, especially the mini money and unnecessarily tiny dice that are just going to get lost, but the practical downsizing is generally done well. Maybe we'll even use it in its intended travel capacity to help induce sleep on cross-country train journeys in the future.
