Chance and Community Chest Cards - Community Chest

Community Chest

Changes in the Community Chest cards in the U.S. editions include:

  • Everyone Must Donate 10% of His Holdings to You in Cash (one edition only, 1936)
  • Go Back to Baltic Avenue (four editions, omitted in U.S. editions since 1936)
  • Go to Income Tax or Jail (Darrow edition, 1934 only)
  • Advance Token to the Nearest Railroad (2x, later moved to Chance)
  • We're Off the Gold Standard, Collect $50 (1935-1936 only, now omitted)
  • Pay Your Insurance Premium: $50 (omitted in U.S. editions since 1935)
  • Pay a $10 fine or take a Chance (omitted in U.S. editions since 1936)

Certain cards were also moved from the Chance cards deck:

  • Pay School Tax $150
  • You are Assessed for Street Repairs (Repair all houses and hotels belonging to all players.)
  • Your Xmas Fund Matures

One further card was introduced by Parker Brothers in 1936: Grand Opera Opening, Collect $50 from each player. The "Second Prize in a Beauty Contest" was also changed in 1936 to an award of $10 from an award of $11.

Cards in the U.S. Standard Edition (the "Atlantic City Edition") which do not appear in the UK Standard Edition:

  • Grand opera Night – collect $50 from every player for opening night seats
  • Life Insurance Matures – collect $100
  • Pay School tax of $150
  • Receive for services $25
  • You are assessed for street repairs – $40 per house, $115 per hotel (Repair all houses and hotels belonging to all players.)

Cards on the short-lived U.S. Monopoly game show in 1990:

  • Street repairs due on (property). Owner pays $X.
  • (Color) player gets $X Income Tax Refund.
  • Low player sues high player. Wins $X judgment.
  • Go back X spaces.

Cards in the UK Standard Edition which are derived from the 1935 Darrow/Parker Brothers edition and are now omitted in the U.S. edition, or are entirely new:

  • Receive interest on 7% preference shares: £25
  • Pay a £10 fine or take a "Chance"
  • Go back to Old Kent Road
  • Pay your insurance premium £50
  • It is your birthday Collect £10 from each player

Read more about this topic:  Chance And Community Chest Cards

Famous quotes containing the words community and/or chest:

    “When you have come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,” you may indeed set over you a king whom the LORD your God will choose. One of your own community you may set as king over you; you are not permitted to put a foreigner over you, who is not of your own community.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 17:14,15.

    “This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.”
    —Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)