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Vent: The one trick that finally got my group to stop fighting over Monopoly house rules
Our Thursday night group of 6 kept blowing up games of Monopoly because nobody could agree on house rules like free parking cash. I started printing a one page contract before each session listing every rule we play by, and everyone signs it before dice hit the table. Last month in my dining room we finished a full game in 3 hours with zero arguments, which never happened before. It sounds dumb but writing it down killed the whole 'but my cousin always played it this way' thing. What weird fixes has your group tried to keep the peace?
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shaneb1612d ago
Works the same magic everywhere else too. My apartment has a shared laundry room and we had years of people yanking clothes out mid-cycle until someone taped a sign up with time slots and a three strike rule. Total chaos turned into a boring little system overnight. Same thing happened at my old job when we started writing down who covered what shift instead of just trusting everyone's memory. Turns out most fights are not about the thing, they are about nobody agreeing on what the thing even is. Put it on paper and half the battle disappears before it starts.
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