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Monopoly is a better game with real money and crime

Monopoly is a better game with real money and crime What if the classic board game had better rules for simulating capitalism? March 3, 2018 at 03:22PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2I2anym
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How Bad Is It To Eat The Same Thing Every Day?

Watch This Next Level Parkour Demonstration Seemingly Defy Gravity

What Places Are Hardest Hit By The Coronavirus?

Here's A Visualization Of The Largest Cities By Area Around The World

Ancient Lake Discovered Under Greenland May Be Millions Of Years Old, Scientists Say

Brentano, Who Taught Freud And Husserl, Is A Lesson To Us All

Sarah Cooper Reveals Why Donald Trump Blocked Her On Twitter In 2017

Even Without A Crowd, Tiger Woods Won't Count Himself Out At The Masters

The Mysterious Heir Of Extreme Travel (2018)

A Chinese Pepper So Hot It Cools

How Biden Swung The Religious Vote

Werner Herzog On Why He's A Fan Of Putin And How Democrats Neglect America's Heartland

Hurricanes Are Keeping More Of Their Strength After Moving Ashore

What Happens After The Abuse?

My Priceless Summer On A Maine Lobster Boat

Read A Previously Unpublished Story By Edith Wharton, 'A Granted Prayer'

Lawyers Litigating for Trump Suddenly Remember Their Licenses Are On The Line If They Lie To A Judge

Steve Cohen Finally Owns The Mets. Will Fans Now Get What They Want?

Pandemic Panic Has Increased The Demand For Astrologers, Tarot Readers And Energy Healers

Here's A Comprehensive Ranking Of Every State Capitol Building In America From A Design Perspective

Why A Movie About 'Citizen Kane' Matters In 2020

Waiting For Kendrick

Why Concrete Is Bad For Us

Sexual Attraction Is The Oldest Story On Earth

Teen Transforms Into A Real Life Rapunzel, Earns Guinness World Record For Longest Hair

How One Obscure Word Captures Urban China's Unhappiness

Amateur Artist Draws Hilarious 'Rubbish' Pet Portraits, Earns Thousands For Homeless Charity

Life Should Not Change This Much Between Your Early Twenties And Your Late Twenties, But It Does

Squirrel Startles Man, Sends Him Straight Back Into The House

Tour This Artist's Mesmerizing Oaxacan Escape

The F1 Suspension Technology That Got Banned Because It Was Too Dangerous

How Ticketmaster Plans To Check Your Vaccine Status For Concerts

Ivanka In Exile

Georgia's Runoffs Will Determine Control Of The Senate. Here's What We Know So Far

Apple Reveals Its Design Philosophy Behind The iPhone Camera

Gap Reports Spike In Khaki Sales After 'Map Guy' Steve Kornacki Rocked Them

The Gregory Brothers Turn Trump Supporter's Impassioned Rants Over Joe Biden's Win Into A Certified Jam

How Quibi Imploded Less Than Six Months After Launch

Evidence Suggests Several State Senate Candidates Were Plants Funded By Dark Money

Virgin Hyperloop Has Invented The World's Crappiest High-Speed Rail

Trump Was Expected To Lose Votes In Places Where More People Died Of COVID-19. He Didn't

What Biden's Presidential Win Means For Birds And The Environment

'Other Countries Have Social Safety Nets. The US Has Women'

Laura Ingraham Scolds Lindsay Graham For Begging Viewers For Money, Compares Him To A Used Car Salesman

Is This (Really) The Last Console Generation?

Where Did The Term 'Lame Duck' Originate?

Ernesto Avenia Is The High-Stakes Fashion Fixer You've Likely Never Heard Of

Watch The World's Brightest Flashlight Light Up This Abandoned Mining Shaft

Why DC's Punchline Is Poised To Be A Breakout Character

Mysterious Bugs Were Used To Hack iPhones And Android Phones And No One Will Talk About It

The Curse Of The Buried Treasure

Early Warnings: How American Journalists Reported The Rise Of Hitler (2012)

What It's Like To Experience A Nuclear Bomb Explosion Up Close

Here's How Photojournalists Got The Photo Of Donald Trump Golfing The Moment Joe Biden Won The Presidency

The Unexpected Boom In Startups

A Brief History Of James Bond's Love Affair With Aston Martin

COVID Took My Grandfather. But It Wasn't What Killed Him

One Of England's Most Celebrated Rivalries Ended In A Food Fight

Seated Gigs, No Moshing And 'Brutally Exhausting' Sets: The Strange New World Of Live Music

Why Doctors May Be Better Equipped To Handle Latest Virus Surge

An Interview With The Owner Of The Sex Shop Next To Four Seasons Landscaping

Why I Paid Tenfold To Buy Back The Rights For Two Of My Books

Golfer Skips Ball Three Times Across A Pond, Gets A Hole-In-One

Alien-Like Photo Shows Snake Eel Dangling Out Of Heron's Stomach In Midair

Study Shows One In Five COVID-19 Patients Develop Mental Illness Within 90 Days

A Ridiculous Number Of Kittens Pour Out Of This Pot To Say Good Morning

How Long Should You Wait To Text Back?

Hanson Is Facing A Mutiny From Its Own Fans

The Incredibly Bizarre Dean Browning And 'Dan Purdy' Twitter Drama, Explained

Outdoor Cats React To Stepping Inside A Special Room Designed For Them The First Time

The English Word That Hasn't Changed In Sound Or Meaning In 8,000 Years

How The Nugget Couch Became Supreme Drops For Moms

When You Spend $200 On A Vacuum Cleaner That Is Totally Not Worth It

Looks Like Spotify Is Considering A Subscription Service For Its Podcasts

She Needs A Device To Talk To People. Arizona Has Not Given It To Her. It Has Been 1.5 Years

FDA Clears Apple Watch App That Helps Treat PTSD-Related Nightmares

COVID-19 Cases Top 50 Million Globally, US Nears 10 Million

This Hysterical Sketch About The Difference Between Indoor And Outdoor Plants Is For Every Plant Killer Out There

Scratching Away: The Complexities Of Chronic Itch

How Do The iPhone 12 Pro Max, Samsung Note 20 Ultra And Huawei Mate 40 Pro Cameras Stack Up Against One Another?

Our Love-Hate Relationship With Gimmicks

The Great 21st-Century Treasure Hunt

What Would We Experience If Earth Spontaneously Turned Into A Black Hole?

A Cool Way To Upcycle An Old Engine Block Is To Make It A Fire Pit

The Social Media Managers Are Not Okay

If 2020 Were A Boyfriend, He'd Be As Toxic As This

Why Did The World's Fastest Man Miss Drug Tests — And A Shot At The Olympics?

People React To Eating Dog Treats For The First Time

Why Germans Love Getting Naked In Public

NXIVM Two Ways: 'Seduced' And 'The Vow'

Watch Virgin Hyperloop Complete Its First Test With Human Passengers At 100 MPH

In Letter To Jeff Bezos, Mom Says Alexa Has Ruined Her 6-Year-Old's Life

Was Joe Biden's Hat On Saturday A Thinly Veiled Message To Donald Trump?

Pfizer's Early Data Shows Vaccine Is More Than 90% Effective

John Oliver Reacts To Donald Trump's Presidential Election Loss: 'A Reverse 9/11'

15 Essential Conspiracy Theory Movies

Biden And Harris Launch Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board

The Colonization Of The Ayahuasca Experience

Let's Take A Moment To Check In With Some Extremely Rich People

Netflix Is Testing A Linear-Style TV Channel In France

Why Is 'Saturday Night Live' Suddenly Booking So Many Older Rock Bands?

Should I Pursue A Relationship With The Man Who's Been Stalking Me For Three Years, And Other Advice Column Questions

This Dog Thinks A Turtle Float Is Shady As Heck

Are We Ready For A Romantic Comedy Set In The Trump Administration?

How Moms In New York City Are Drastically Different Than Those In Los Angeles

Inside Donald Trump's 2020 Undoing

The History Of Poop Is Really The History Of Technology

This Experiment Shows How Our Wifi Is Affected By Microwaves

How Ludwig Göransson Remixed John Williams For 'The Mandalorian'

10 Questions For A Holocaust Survivor

The One Climate Fix You Can Definitely Stomach

When Your Great Danes Open Your Delivery Boxes For You

Guy Sends Lock Picking Expert Cuban Cigars Secured In An Electronic Smartphone Locker And Challenges Him To Crack Into It

Just Electing Joe Biden Won't Stop The Coronavirus Pandemic

The Supreme Court Case That Could Kill Obamacare Overnight, Explained

Footballers On Opposing Teams Momentarily Forget How To Play Sport

Can Donald Trump Steal The Election?

At An Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms (2019)

Watch Player Score Bizzare Soccer Goal

The States Where Kanye West Received Votes, Visualized

Here's A Critical Look At What A Joe Biden Presidency Means

Watch Foo Fighters Debut New Song 'Shame Shame' Live On 'SNL'

Please Enjoy This Supercut of Alex Trebek Saying 'Genre'

'Jeopardy!' Contestant Breaks Down Telling Alex Trebek How Much He Impacted His Life

'Jeopardy!' Host Alex Trebek Dead At 80

YouTubers Can't Stop Destroying The iPhone 12

Rotten River: Life On One Of The World's Most Polluted Waterways, In Photos

The Lucky Breaks That Prevented An Election Meltdown

Prehistoric Female Hunter Discovery Upends Gender Role Assumptions

Man Celebrating Election Result Crashes Live French TV, Flexes His Limited Knowledge Of Breakfast Items

Writer Evan Ratliff Tried To Vanish: Here's What Happened (2009)

A Nameless Hiker And The Case The Internet Can't Crack

Rudy Giuliani Explains Trump's Election Lawsuits On 'Weekend Update'

Take A Glimpse At Dr. Seuss's Secret Midnight Paintings

When Kids Ran The World: A Forgotten History Of The Junior Republic Movement

Biden Declares Victory, Mock's Trump In 'SNL' Cold Open

Local News Reporter Tells Pro-Trump Heckler To 'Buzz Off' On Live TV

Joe Biden Delivers Victory Speech: 'This Is The Time To Heal In America'

A Fake Paris In China, And Other Best Photography Of The Week

This Zippo Refillable Hand Warmer Is Going To Get Us Through The Cold Months

How Trump Changed America

The MAGA Movement Is Splintering Between Those Preparing For A Future Without Trump And Those Refusing To Imagine One

How Trump Lost

Watch Kamala Harris Break The News To Joe Biden That He's The Next President

Here's A Tour Inside The World's First All Electric 9-Passenger Airplane Which Cost $4 Million

Biden Defeats Trump In An Election He Made About Character Of The Nation And The President

Here Is A Picture Of Trump Golfing As Joe Biden Officially Won

Here's The Moment Fox News Announced Joe Biden As The 46th President of the United States

Scientists Relieved As Joe Biden Wins Tight US Presidential Election

Kamala Harris Makes History As First Woman Of Color Elected US Vice-President

Watch Van Jones's Emotional Reaction To The News That Joe Biden Has Won The Presidency

Watch This Corgi Puppy Hilariously Disapprove Of His New Water Bowl

Why This Smartphone From 2007 Was So Ahead Of Its Time

Rupert Murdoch-Owned US Outlets Turn On Trump, Urging Him To Act With 'Grace'

A Helicopter Carrying A Heart For A Transplant Crashed And When They Found It, A Doctor Promptly Dropped It

Why The Biggest Stars In Comedy Are The Ones Open About Their Mental Health

Someone Inserted Joe Biden And Donald Trump Into 'Avengers: Endgame' And Created A, Uh, Masterpiece

The Election That Broke The Republican Party

White House Chief Of Staff Mark Meadows Tests Positive For The Coronavirus

What Happens If There Is No Peaceful Transfer Of Power After The US Presidential Election?

Why Trump Can't Afford To Lose

Fossil Fuels Get The Nuclear Treatment In New Climate Effort

Watch The Last Remaining Election Results Come In Batch By Batch In Key Swing States

How Jim Carrey Mastered Impressions To Get His Big Break

The One Ingredient You Need To Clean The Dishwasher And Four Other Gross Household Items

Urban Explorers Set Foot In A Creepy Abandoned Mansion That Might Not Actually Be Abandoned

Counties With Worst Virus Surges Overwhelmingly Voted Trump

Here's The Unexpected Way That McDonald's Makes Most Of Its Money

Why Does Netflix Hate Chicago?

Please Enjoy This Video Of The National Zoo's 11-Week-Old Baby Panda Getting Weighed

Wisconsin And Michigan Changing From Red To Blue, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked

This Twitter Thread Reveals The Prehistoric Origins Of The Southern Blue Swoosh On The Electoral Map

A Selfie Set In Stone: Hidden Portrait By Cheeky Mason Found In Spain 900 Years On

Someone Shut Themselves Inside Their Parents' Garage For Six Months Learning How To Do A Claymation Music Video For Their Band

The Making Of A Sleeper Hit

Having A Hard Time With Winter Blues? A Light Therapy Lamp Might Help

Stephen Colbert Delivers Emotional Response To Trump's Election Claims: 'I Didn't Expect This To Break My Heart'

This 26-Second Video Zooms Straight Into The Center Of The Milky Way

Inventing The Myth Of The White Suburban Woman Voter

Amazon's Surveillance Drones Violate FCC Rules. It's Time To Enforce Them

An Iceberg 80 Times The Size Of Manhattan Could Destroy A Fragile South Atlantic Ecosystem

Europe's City Of Dawdlers And Loafers

People Go About Their Daily Lives Nude In This NSFW TV Ad From Iceland

Politicians Read Mean Tweets About Themselves

Hillsong Church Pastor Carl Lentz Was Fired: Here's Everything We Know About The Scandal

Shell's Bad Tweets Reek Of Desperation

Here's What People Get Wrong About Masks

The US Has Left The Paris Climate Deal — What's Next?

Is It Really An Open-Air Restaurant If It Has Walls And A Roof?

If You Ordered Chipotle Like A Cheesy Early 2000s Movie, It Would Look Something Like This

What It Looked Like One Day After The 2000 Election, Compared To Right Now

What Will It Take For Americans To Ditch Their Obsession With Single-Family Homes?

Behold The Largest Congregation Of Bald Eagles In The United States

The German-Japanese Village Where The Most Fearful Weapon Was Tested

YouTubers Try Their Hand At Building A Self-Propelling Car Engine

Here's An Uncanny Impression Of A Southerner Visiting New York City For The First Time

How One '90s Concept Car Saved Porsche As We Know It

This Zippo Refillable Hand Warmer Is Going To Get Us Through The Cold Months

Does Knowing God Just Take Practice?

How Many Of These Top 10 Pieces Of 'Word Trash' Are You Guilty Of Using?

Preserving One Of America's Quietest Places

The World's Most Unlikely Spy

Clever Video Shows What People Actually Do When They Say They're Saving Their Sandwiches For Later

Someone Just Emptied Out A Bitcoin Wallet With $964,000,000 In It

Ballot-Counting Live Streams Show The Invisible Labor Behind Democracy

What I Learned Riding 5,000 Miles Cross-Country On An Italian Muscle Cruiser

Higher Earning: How Much Money Could College Athletes Make From NIL Rights?

How Newspapers Reacted To The Too-Close-To-Call Election

The 50 Best Places To Work In 2020

Oregon Becomes First State To Legalize Psychedelic Mushrooms

Bernie Sanders Had A Surprisingly Prescient Prediction About The 2020 Election

How Do You Know When Society Is About To Fall Apart?

It's Hard To Get Rid Of A Bear In A Truck

This Video Of A Bride Dancing With Her 'Best Dog' Is Pure Magic

How The Coronavirus Hacks The Immune System

Restaurant Dress Codes Frequently Target Black Customers. It's Past Time For Them To Go

16 Of The Most Inspiring Cityscapes In Science Fiction

Someone Added Auto-Tune To These Animal Sounds And It Actually Kind Of Slaps

Dollhouses Of Death That Trained America's Detectives (2017)

The Election-Week Diet Of Steve Kornacki, Who Runs On Diet Coke And Adrenaline

This Arnold Schwarzenegger And Sylvester Stallone 'Step Brothers' Deepfake Is So, So Weird

Johnny Depp Plays Photographer W. Eugene Smith In 'Minamata'

A Man With An Allergy To Cold Nearly Died After Stepping Out Of A Hot Shower

People On Twitter Are Remembering The Funniest Moments From This Election Cycle, And It Is Exactly The Distraction You Need

Here Are Some Helpful Tips To Stop Being Tired All The Time

The Greatest Movie Auteurs You've Never Heard About

The 2020 Presidential Election Electoral Map, Updated Live

The Weirdest And Coolest Polling Places Where Americans Voted

Watch Election Day 2020 Coverage And Results

Soothe Your Election Nerves By Solving Crossword Puzzles Together On Twitch

Why It Might Take Weeks For Your Vote To Count

What To Do If You're Stuck In A Line At Your Polling Place On Election Day

Learn How To Make Chicken Tikka Masala From A New York Mainstay

City Pages, The Alt-Weekly Where Music Writing Reigned Supreme

Watch This Moose Get The Hang Out Of Playing Soccer

Watch Tracy Chapman Perform 'Talkin' 'Bout A Revolution' On 'Late Night With Seth Meyers'

What I Learned From Training To Be A Right-Wing Poll Watcher

If You're Going To Cook Holiday Meals, You Need A Funny Apron

The Terrifying Whitewater Trip That Turned Into A Dream

It's 2020. Why Do Printers Still Suck?

Kid Doesn't Know What A Dragonfly Is, Thinks It's A Baby Helicopter

The Truth About British Stoicism

Who Am I To Decide When Algorithms Should Make Important Decisions?

Why Some Jump Scares In Horror Movies Are More Terrifying Than Others

Are Parallel Universes Real?

What An Accurate Presidential Library For Donald Trump Would Look Like

This Documentary About Simulating The Human Brain Is 10 Years In The Making

How One Of Our First 'Smart' Weapons Helped Stop The Nazis

The Classification Of Humankind, And The Birth Of Population Science

Why Physically We've Never Been Able To Measure The Speed Of Light

'Jeopardy!' Contestants' Most Hated Word: Preemption

The Best Internet Wormholes For A Perfect Election Distraction

An Eviction Crisis Is Looming In America As Millions Can't Afford To Pay Rent

Here's The Oldest Known Song In History

What 'I Voted' Stickers Look Like In All 50 States

What Happens When You Crush 1,500 Sheets Of Paper With A 150-Ton Hydraulic Press

How QAnon Exploited This Instagram Aesthetic To Make Their Ideology More Accessible

John Mulaney Hosted 'Saturday Night Live' This Weekend, And His Monologue Sparked A Mixed Reaction Online

An Alarmingly Deep Dive Into The Science Of Baby Yoda

What Should I Do After Lying On A Job Application About Going To A Prestigious College, And Other Advice Column Questions

The Most Famous Paradox In Physics Nears Its End

Here's Why San Francisco Doesn't Have Any Active Cemeteries

What To Do If You See A Ghost

Pre-Order 'Assassin's Creed Valhalla,' Save $10

These YouTubers Weren't Satisfied With The World's Largest Gummy Worm So They Took Matters Into Their Own Hands

Down Into Waterworld

How Sports Owners Hide Political Donations From Players And Fans

The Writer Who Foresaw The Trump Era

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reveals Everything That Goes Into Her Everyday Hustle As Congresswoman

Why Some Memories Seem Like Movies: 'Time Cells' Discovered In Human Brains

When Your Quarantine Life Begins To Resemble A Black-And-White French Movie

The Science Of Nerdiness

The Very French Fight Over Reuniting Rimbaud And Verlaine In The Pantheon

The Unsettling Anti-Entertainment Of 'A World Of Calm'

Shades Of Grey

Please Don't Be This Roommate If You Test Positive For Coronavirus

How The Trump Administration Is Weakening LGBTQ Protections With This Loophole

The Stupid Things Men Say To Women That They Believe Are Compliments