Spreadsheet Central discussion

For discussing the spreadsheet used for the monopoly game

The way the game was orginally played:

You would roll a dice for each time. They would land on a square and then have to read the number of pages as stated on the square to then roll another dice. This was repeated and the winner of the game was the team with the highest page points.

I was hoping to change it to rolling the dice everyday for every team. And the team could use the pages they have banked to buy the square that they land on. Or choose to save their pages for higher cost squares.

We would have to figure out what the penalty would be for another team landing on a square that is already owned. And the advantage of owning a set.

My initial though would be owned squares generate points each day. The higher value squares you own the the more points per day you receive. The chance cards can take away or give points.

A possibly for the jail would be paying pages to get out ahead of time. Or waiting 3 days, i.e. 3 "rolls" to get out again.

I would think this would be a 2 or 3 month challenge. Maybe the first month there would be no rolls and people would just read to bank pages. And then after the initial period the rolls would occur everyday and people could choose to spend their pages at that time.

Let me know any thoughts you have.

Hi Kala,
I love this!! It sounds so great!

An idea for a penalty when a team lands on another teams sqaure could be "paying" a certain amount of pages, depending on the value of the square, to the team who owns the square. And then the cost penalty for owning a whole set would be more if someone else landed on it.

I like the idea that the dice gets rolled every day, but I also think that teams who want to work really hard and move and buy more should get the opportunity. I'm not sure how to put that into practice though...

You could have it where the first month is only banking pages, but you could also have it where the costs of the squares are less to even that out, and then the players just bank pages as the challenge goes on. Or where each team starts with a certain amount of pages (like in the actual game Monopoly), but from there they have to collect pages by reading, having other teams pay them, etc. I do think that 2 or 3 months sounds like a good length for this sort of challenge.

I like it a lot but the spreadsheet makes it look much more complicated than that. Was there a spell out involved?

I think it would be more appealing to people if there were tasks instead such as "read a book that..." That way even slow readers could play. I play with a lot of people who read 500 pages a day and some that are lucky to read at all.
What if we made it so there was the option of a task or of pages? I can easily modify the image.

But I'm curious what all the other tabs mean.

I think I missed something lol, where's the ss?

For future reference, on the main page of this group, the very first thread, :"Shared Spreadsheets" is for posting spreadsheets. I keep them all in the first post. This one is under "other."

But here it is.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

The other tabs were created for different challenges that used tasks. Not specifically for the monopoly challenge. The version of monopoly I played was based purely on pages read, no other requirements.

I would be happy to figure out a way to work in tasks but I would have to lean very heavily on you guys for the creation of the tasks. I've always struggled with creative endeavors.

I can create tasks easily. I'm just super busy right now until mid April. But if we can put off developing this a bit longer, that would be great. Charlotte, have you developed a game yet for AMMP or Game Night? Maybe you want to take the lead with Kala rather than me.

Kala, do you have a group you can create a game for? We can try to do it for Game Night which would fit. We're just guest mods there to help develop games.

I am very happy to help make the game!
I haven't made any games yet, but I'm going to be working on one with Jessica. We just haven't started quite yet.
I definitely think that it would work for game night.

I definitely think that tasks would be a good idea and add an extra dimension to the game!