The Sun - A COMMUNIST version of Monopoly has been made where players trade in bread and loo (toilet) paper instead of hotels and houses. The board game, called Queue (Line), is the brainchild of the National Remembrance Institute in Poland to show children what the country was like in the Soviet era.
Players get a list of ten essential items like bread and toilet roll and have to travel around the board joining queues (lines) to get into state owned shops.
Instead of old favourites like Chance and Community Chest, players can draw wild cards which can get them sent to the front of queues because of a Communist Party connection or having their shop closed down for "decadence".
The game's creator Karol Madaj said: "The game not only makes players understand shopping in Poland under communism. "It also teaches them what queuing (lining up) is like - something people seem to have forgotten."
Now that does not seem like a very fun game at all but then again I suppose it is not intended that way but rather for instructional purposes.
I would like to see this "game" translated into an English version and distributed throughout our educational system and be mandatory participation in all civics and government related studies.
I found a good graphic for the cover of the game box should it reach our shores,,,,,,,,,
