If you are anything like me, you spend a huge amount of time on the phone and internet. My business is both and while the internet usually takes concentration, the phone business does not. In fact, I can do that particular business in my sleep-and have. To keep from getting unbelievably bored, I started playing games during those conversations that don't require my full attention.
Matching games are good for hand/eye coordination and word games are pretty easy to do while carrying on a conversation. One of the games I have recently acquired is that of a real-estate type, where one moves around the board and has to deal with various community happenstances whilst trying to amass a fortune in cash and properties.
Imagine my surprise to find that playing by the rules in this particular game will have one losing every time. The computer makes sure that it wins, without fail. Yes, the computer cheats. By taking a simple tally of a few things you can tell if your game is cheating. For instance, observing several games in a row, it was plain to see that while my game piece got sent to jail every other trip around the board-and sometimes as much as eight times before completing a revolution, the computer somehow managed to land its' game piece directly on the money spot every other time around. The computer also consistently received the instructions to go directly to that money spot, while I received instructions to go to jail. Something is rotten here.
Frustration is not something one purchases a game for, is it? At least that's not on my particular list of reasons for playing a game. What you can do about it is to click on the options menu and change the rules. As in life, if you don't like the rules, go about changing them. By switching the salary to 2X and switching off the 'even build' rule, and changing taxes and credit card interest to zero, plus deleting the bail amount, one has an almost even chance to beat the game. This is necessary because the game will also consistently land you on the income tax and credit card interest spots, while its' own game piece sails past those almost every time.
The other thing to watch out for is when the computer gives itself all the prime properties, which it also likes to do. Maybe it's wishful thinking, but I am training mine to stop doing that. Every time it gives itself all the prime properties, I quit the game, so no one wins. Okay, so maybe that's just the way I deal with the frustration of a game that cheats so much.
Luckily for me, the game has no idea that I will hang in there until I can purchase its' properties-at four times the amount-and then build on them. Ha! Yes, that is how I win the game. A human opponent would get stubborn-and not be that simple-minded in the first place-and would refuse to sell me a property that would complete my monopoly. Shhh-don't tell the game my secret.
The only time I have seen the game evenly matched is when two or more humans are playing it. When the computer plays, it plays to win, by any means, and cheating doesn't bother it a bit. The game also cheats with the money, by taking more money when you sell a house and taking more than the standard 10% mortgage. My oh my, what a tangled web that game weaves. The game is very true to life, after all.
Dr. Valerie Olmsted is an author, naturopathic physician, metaphysician, internet entrepreneur, artist, speaker, and lover of life. Traveling with the Quantum Vortex Experience, she has helped thousands of people reach the inner connection they are seeking and has contributed to the discoveries of manifestation practices via quantum physics applications.
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