London Turned into Giant Board Game

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 22, 2005 @04:42PM 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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Re:i'm "playing" this now by CortoMaltese · 2005-06-22 21:20 · Score: 1, Redundant

I'd be willing to believe there's no GPS or anything real cab positioning system involved.
I am playing the game right now. The game gives you updates every 15 minutes. And every 15 minutes I end up paying rent to someone. Consider a city the size of London, the traffic there, less than 40 locations spread about the city, and a cab driving around. There is no way the cab could pass one of those locations every 15 minutes.

My judgement is that the game is a hoax. (Although a nice one at that.)