Games - Monopoly Mystery Cache
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Sometimes I play other kinds of games with my geocaching friends. A month or two ago I played some Scrabble with a buddy. He ended up winning, which figures, since he usually beats me to the cache finds at GZ too. Wouldn't be so bad, except he's blind as a bat.
This time I invited a couple couples over for an evening of Monopoly. Sir deepdish23 came out along with his wife, Lady yellowrose70. Always nice to have descendents of the Teutonic Knights in our humble abode. Sue-Cat brought Vinny under the pretenses that this was some manner of highly secretive alien occult gathering, and that the board game was just a cover. My wife was the sixth, who joined us on the condition that we didn't spend the entire time talking about "that geode-stashing nonsense."
We had quite the game, as you'll see in the picture below. All six of us were still in the hunt late in the game, six players, six little tokens scrambling around the board. I was surprised we all survived that long. I think people were being overly polite, as if ruthless entrepreneurialism was poor etiquette at a dinner party, and were making kindhearted trades so everyone had monopolies. Well, everyone except me. The closest thing I had to a monopoly were both utilities--y'know, the ones that get their value based on what you roll with the dice. Not very good in the late game; and nearly as insignificant as the divvied railroads.
I wasn't used to dealing with this altruistic collusion; normally, my Monopoly opponents are some ungodly breed of vicious Randian-Machiavellian cutthroats who would sell out their own mother for a piece of Baltic Ave, if it suited their devices. A few times my own competitive streak wanted to come out, but my wife would flash me that "Don't you dare!" stare, and I resisted. Not long after, a pricy jaunt along the northern side of the board put me out of the game, capped by a stay at yellowrose70's Marvin Gardens that I simply couldn't afford.
Anyway, you guys probably don't care about all that; you want to figure out a puzzle and get a smiley. Check out the snapshot of the game board and see what you can do--the puzzle is all there. So long as you have a basic understanding of how to play Monopoly, you shouldn’t need anything outside of this cache description to solve it. Good luck and have fun!
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Permission for this cache placement is on record at Frederick County Division of Parks and Recreation.
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