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London Turned into Giant Board Game

Posted by samzenpus on from the detroit-chutes-and-ladders dept.

webponce writes "Hasbro have fitted out 18 London cabs with GPS tracking devices, and hooked them up to a real time, real life game of monopoly. You get to choose which cab driver you want to 'play' with, and then pick which properties around London you want to put your houses and hotels, hit go, sit back and wait for the other cab drivers to land on your square and make you rent. You get 24 hours of your cab running around London, and you have to see how much money you can make in a day (my bet, put your property on Wimbledon this week ;)"

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  1. i'm "playing" this now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    basically you set it up, it ticks for 24hrs, then at the end it tells you how much money you made. im on about 300m last i checked, the game ends at 24hrs and you start again.

    it isn't fun.

  2. crank cabbie callouts? by jamesh · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm not sure if the cab system differs in London compared to where I live, but I'd predict a large increase in abandoned calls from locations people have bought a lot of property on.

    1. Re:crank cabbie callouts? by screwballicus · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I should think that London, like New York, has many thousands of cabs in its fleets (despite the comparatively strict regulation of the taxi system). What kind of dint can you make in that kind of business by sending out a few fake calls?

      Amidst real estate where several taxis pass by every minute, what do you do to substantially increase taxi visits? Hire out a call centre in India?