We all wish we could use those multi-colored Monopoly bills in our daily lives. How great would it be to just go into that board game box and pull out a couple of those orange $500 bills when times get tough?
Alas, Monopoly is just a board game, and its currency isn't accepted anywhere. That's all about to change with some special editions of the board game released in France.
Hasbro France released several sets of the classic board game Monday that included real money in place of those small, colorful bills we know and love. This is in honor of the 80th anniversary of the game this year.
In accordance with the anniversary, only 80 sets with real money have been released. Most of them, to the tune of 69 boxes, include five 10-euro notes and five 20-euro notes. Ten sets have a slightly larger amount of real dough, five 20-euro notes, two 50-euro notes and one 100-euro notes. One lucky Monopoly fan will actually go home with a box containing 20,580 euros, or $23,268. It's like landing on "Free Parking" IRL.
"We were looking for something special for this birthday and found out that the majority of French people playing dreamed of one day finding real money when they opened the box," Hasbro France's brand manager told The Connexion.
So how do you snag one of these boxes, you ask? Well, it's basically like searching for the Golden Ticket to get into Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. The 80 boxes containing real money are included in the 30,000 boxes of the board game Hasbro France released today. The ones that contain the real cash have a sticker on the box that says, "De vrai billets se trouvent peut etre dans cette boite!" which translates to "Real bills can be found in this box!" I feel bad for the employees that are going to have to clean up the stack of Monopoly boxes after customers rip through them while searching every day. Que sera, sera.
If you don't live in France, you can always just use your own real money to play a game of Monopoly instead of the dollar dollar bills that come with the game, although I feel like that would cause way more arguments than the game already inspires. You can also just watch Zombieland where the characters Tallahassee and Little Rock demonstrate how it's done.
Hasbro has also released an 80th anniversary edition of the game in the States so Americans can still get their celebration on. This edition of the game is modeled after the original 1935 version.
No matter how you choose to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Monopoly, you'll probably feel like it takes too long to finish.
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