Jail Free card, but you can also wait until you roll doubles Get out immediately by paying $50 or by using a Get out of I discovered that it is really necessary to model twoĭifferent strategies. I used an extended version of this program to Probabilities using a Markov matrix, which was the methodĭescribed in a simplified form in the Scientific AmericanĪrticle. Although this gave good aproximate answers, I Rules for going to jail and the Chance and Community ChestĬards. Simulates a single person rolling the dice and moving around I'm not much of a Monopoly® player myself, but I'veĪlways enjoyed interesting problems involving probability I ran into some interesting problems but finallyĬame up with the right answers, which you will find hereĪlong with some other useful derived data. The different squares with all of the rules taken intoĪccount. Working on trying to find the probabilities for landing on I was intrigued enough with this problem that I started Without considering the effects of the Chance and CommunityĬhest cards or of the various ways of being sent to jail. Of landing on the various squares in the game of Expected income per roll for other squaresĪpril 1996 issue with additional information in the Augustġ996 and April 1997 issues) that discussed the probabilities.Expected income per roll for each property.Long term probabilities for each square.Someone say “monopoly”? (Hat tip to Andie Schwartz. Under current law, for better or worse that does not appear to qualify as parody. Using someone else’s work to poke fun at a third person is not a parody of the original work, just a utilization ofthe recognized cultural cue to move the point along. Of course if my view of on this point were adopted, the argument would work even better for once-removed parody defenses such as the one suggested here. Monopoly really a trademark? It’s true that everyone associates this phrase with Monopoly, but not every cultural reference is, really, a trademark infringement, is it? Well, of course I don’t think so, but don’t ask a judge these days. So, is this really trademark use at all, or is Mr. “His lawyer responded to Hasbro’s lawyers, contending that his cards were parody and that he was within his rights to publish them,” says Bob, adding that they later stuck a disclaimer on the card (not usually too helpful). MONOPOLY® character, remove the cards and stickers from your website, and provide us with a written assurance that in the future you will refrain from any further unauthorized use of the elements and characters of the MONOPOLY® property trading game. We therefore demand that you immediately cease and desist from any further use of the MR. MONOPOLY® character and are obviously derived from the MONOPOLY® “Chance” card. We recently became aware that you are offering for sale “Last Chance – Get Out of Hell Free” cards and stickers on your website at that depict the famous MR. The interesting legal question to me, however, is this, as quoted by Bob from the recipient Randy Cassingham’s blog: Always good to make the C&D sender look silly. I’m not so interested in the cute part of the story about how the original cease and desist letter got returned to Patterson Belknap postage due, which, as far as it goes, is a nice hook. As could be expected with a friend’s blog, I put in my two cents in his comments here I flesh ’em out for a penny or two more. Monopoly, which of course are the intellectual property of the Monopoly people over at Hasbro. Bob Ambrogi reports on some cease-and-desist follies involving GET OUT OF JAIL FREE and Mr.
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