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= September 4 =

Buy a yacht!
On what "Monopoly" card (at least in the US edition) is Mr Moneybags surrounded by people holding up signs telling him to do X, Y, or Z with the money that the card will give him, with "Buy a yacht" being one of the signs' inscriptions? I thought it was "Bank error in your favor: collect $200" from Community Chest, but that's not the case; a Google search isn't finding anything, and I don't have a game set available. Nyttend (talk) 04:00, 4 September 2016 (UTC)


 * You inherit $100 ---Sluzzelin talk  04:13, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Where can one buy a yacht for $100? (Sources, please).  2606:A000:4C0C:E200:ED78:2C1B:802D:2371 (talk) 20:09, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep in mind the game was created during the Great Depression. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:09, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Even so. You might have been able to get a sailing dinghy for $100, but nothing that could have really been called a yacht.  A Rolls-Royce Phantom I cost $18,000 in 1929. Tevildo (talk) 23:16, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I think even then it was intended as a joke that you could buy any of those things for $100; I found Motor Boating magazine for January 1936. If you scroll down far enough, there are second-hand cabin cruisers available at $1,500, but $100 would only get you a reconditioned 8 horse-power engine. I found the price of a round-the-world cruise in 1932 given as $36,000, but that was for a whole family with servants. I couldn't find the price of a Rolls Royce in the 1930s but the first ever Rolls Royce car to be made in 1908 cost $800.   Alansplodge (talk) 23:29, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Then there are the 2-dollar rents on some of the cheaper squares. Keep in mind that the specific dollar amounts aren't really so important. The goal of the game is to be the one who, through luck and skill, takes over all the properties. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:03, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
 * The same place you can buy the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for $200, or the whole of Mayfair for £400. Smurrayinchester 09:28, 9 September 2016 (UTC)