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Monopoly Junior Strategy

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Ok, you are wondering why I’m talking strategy in a monopoly kid board game. More than that, you are asking yourself what kind of strategy there could be in Monopoly Jun ior… I have to agree that there isn’t a lot of trick and twist but like the rest of the element in this board game, the re is a few strategy and they are simple. They simplified them in a way that kids playing this board game will slowly assimilate what a board game strategy is. If we take a look at the Monopoly Junio r chance cards, we can see: Free purple booth card, free light blue boo th card, free pink booth card, free orange booth card, free red booth card, free yellow booth card and f inally, free blue booth car d. Monopoly Junior Free Ticket Booth Cards The Special Monopoly Junior Card Strategy There’s also “special” card (my daughter like to say that), where the player is asked to move on the monopoly junior game board to a “special” location. These special spot on the board are the on e s you want to pick ...

Monopoly Junior

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S ince Easter, I've been playing Monopoly Junior every day with my daughter. She's alm o st four years old and she's already into one of my favorite board game of all time, Monopoly (we ll, a kid version o f it). I'm always fascinated by my kids and the speed at with they can get the grasp on something new. After three or four game, she knew all the main attraction on the board and was hoping to put a kiosk on it. The notion of money is a little bit more difficult to assimilate at this age but I think its better th is way for the moment! What matters at this age is more the color of things Follo wing that rule, she will always prefer purple instead of yellow and if I land on the unoccupied balloon stand, she will try to trade her helicopter stand for my balloon stand immediately! The reason why this kid version of monopoly is so easy to play with my daughter is because they removed a lot of decision taking (which is difficult at this age bel...