Build the Monopoly board to have a custom model. Necessary material and a lot of imagination to make it unique. Ideas and ideas.
Get one customized version of Monopoly to invite friends to play and make them gasp as soon as they see the scoreboard they will play on. Really fantastic as a game idea, as well as absolutely personal and everyone will then be unleashed in creating, playing with the imagination a different board, as if it were the stadium in which the favorite team plays.
Doing it yourself at home will become a wonderful pastime, above all you can create a board that is versatile, or using the two sides, you can choose or have the version to play with, always keeping the spirit of the game unchanged or modifying and adding some new rule that can make it even more exciting.
So let’s see what you need for yours project creative, then offering you some suggestions of completed works around the world.
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Build a DIY Monopoly board
The original Monopoly board has the following size: a square of 20 inches x 20, or 50.8 cm x 50.8 cm.
To make it you can use a thick, resistant cardboard that you can decide to leave in its entirety or divide in turn into 2 or 4 pieces, always square, so that you can arrange it more easily at the end of the game.
If you already have your original board, you can do other than copy the names of the streets and squares present, otherwise you can rely on this basic version of the game in English, transcribing the names of the most famous streets and squares in your city or, even more freely, invent them from scratch.
But the most beautiful and stimulating thing will be to color and create an ad hoc board, with very personal drawings, phrases and images, according to the idea you have in mind.
If you always play as a couple, remembering the moment of engagement or marriage can be a romantic way.
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Football version for the scoreboard dedicated to the Welsh footballer Aaron Ramsey.
Family images, which we leave to creativity and personal romanticism, perhaps with some empty boxes waiting for the baby to arrive.
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With stickers it is even better, if you then have an inkjet printer, using photo paper will be exhilarating.
Another sporty version, truly ultra-customizable with the names of the beloved and hated champions.
Fantasy version for lovers of Harry Potter wizard, a character that seems timeless.
Another dominant theme, the Pokemon, whose stickers go around the world.
Non plus ultra, if you know an expert carpenter able to create a tailor-made one, a truly luxurious and surprising gift idea.
Historical TV series of the 90s, Friends does not seem to have lost its charm even when it is the subject of a game.
And if instead of cardboard you still have many pieces of your beloved Lego at home, why not make it even more 80s-style toy?
Custom Monopoly: Elements
To learn more about the Monopoly game and how it develops, in case you are new to the subject, there are many tutorials on the Internet that explain the development of the game. To continue the DIY topic, the original box contains, in addition to the board, the following essential elements:
- 2 dice
- 32 houses (green in color)
- 12 hotels (red)
- 16 Unexpected cards
- 16 Probability cards
- 28 contracts
- 400 banknotes of various denominations
Banknotes are among the indispensable components, those that can be made more easily by oneself, in case they are lost over the years. Retrieving slips of paper and coloring them, indicating the amount, is very simple. For those wishing to continue on the line of “hard and pure”, it can be a leap back in time, when you were younger, report the amount in lire.
The denominations of the banknotes, when the lira was used, were:
- 100 lire
- 1000 lire
- 10,000 lire
- 50000 lire