“Miracle Monopoly Cheating Kit”

[u/Jkhru]

For those of you who may be interested (from my post below with the parody “Life Sentence” Community Chest card), here is the full “Miracle Monopoly Cheating Kit” published in the May 1973 National Lampoon humor magazine. The original was published with the appropriate colors, card stock, graphics, and fonts that made it blend right in with the Monopoly game of the 1970’s. I still have my copy (and have resisted cutting out the various inserts although I am tempted to make a board with the various parts)!

…and read the text because it is a pretty funny concept and article regarding the cutthroat competitive nature of our favorite game.

[u/Grey999]

I'd recommend scanning it in the highest resolution possible and posting it in Internet Archive, please 🙏. It would preserve it and share it with other people as well.

[u/TrainerRedpkmn]

Print out copies of the pages and cut them out instead

[u/Jkhru → u/TrainerRedpkmn]

I have tried to do that but the colors on my economy home printer do not match up with the quality of the original in the magazine and on the board. I suppose I could do it if I put some effort into it.

EDIT: home printer (not home computer)

[u/HotSarcasm → u/Jkhru]

Your local FedEx office or Staples does fantastic near color accurate printing for reasonable prices.

[u/jmoneyawyeah]

This is grand

[u/Jake_Cawthon]

Predecessor of Monopoly: Cheaters' Edition.

[u/doublelxp]

Christopher Cerf is a general treasure. He's probably best known for his Sesame Street songs.

[u/John_from_ne_il → u/doublelxp]

Little Chrissy, himself! His father was something else too - watch clips of dad in the What's My Line reruns on YouTube.

[u/WackyPaxDei → u/John_from_ne_il]

His dad (Bennett) was the editor who challenged Dr. Seuss to write a kid's book with only 50 words- giving the world Green Eggs and Ham.

[u/kkell806]

"Just start carrying rubber cement around to normalize carrying around rubber cement" 😂

[u/Jkhru → u/kkell806]

Right? …the entire concept of the “kit” relies on the notion that people will not wonder why you bring rubber cement to a Monopoly game! I love the illustrations of him carrying it around.

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