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739 sats \ 16 comments \ @bief57 5 Jan lightning

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Santa Claus brought my 7-year-old daughter a Monopoly game as a gift and inspired by @Catcher post, we decided to follow her idea and replace the toy bills with SATS.

The experience was wonderful, I had to wait 28 years to learn how to use a lightning wallet and my daughter only had to wait until she was 7 years old to learn how to receive and send payments in SATS. This game and method not only teaches children how to use lightning wallets, but also how to perform basic math in a fun way.

Monopoly games are very long, we don't finish the game, so we choose to record the game in logseq to continue where we left off.

My husband and I used our Coinos wallets. My daughter and the Bank used WoS wallets.

To start the game you need $1500, but in this case it was 1500 SATS. So $1=1 SATS, as @Catcher explained in his post. We added 21 additional SATS just in case we would have to pay commissions at some point, we were lucky that we never paid commissions.

Without a doubt, the next time we play Monopoly it will be with our lightning wallets. I just had a question, in what other game can lightning wallets be used? (That is not a gambling game)

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22 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 5 Jan

I tried to play monopoly once, with sats, but the biggest problem was... WHO is going to be the bank... So we had to invent new rules, that means it was not anymore a real monopoly. But yeah it was fun.

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 6 Jan

I think that in this game the Bank should be someone neutral, because the Bank, like the Government in real life, is the only one who earns money without doing anything, while everyone is crazy about turning the board and conquering the challenges and objectives.

32 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 OP 5 Jan

In our case, there were 3 people (my daughter, my husband and I). My husband has several flash wallets on his phone, he decided to use coinos for his game character and WoS for the Bank. It was funny when the bank (himself) had to pay him, he would jump from one app to another to make the transactions. My daughter and I were careful that he didn't commit acts of corruption by being the bank and the player at the same time.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @NovaRift 5 Jan

This sounds like a great idea! I'll try it too.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 OP 5 Jan

Do it!

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 5 Jan

This seems like a fun idea.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 OP 5 Jan

Yes, it definitely is.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @nym 5 Jan

Great idea!!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 OP 5 Jan

It's more fun this way than with bills.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @fishious 6 Jan

If you have Alby Hub set up, then you can use the subaccounts feature and just create wallets with an initial balance for players. This allows players who don't have existing lightning wallets to play Monopoly with sats! And I believe transactions between subaccounts within the same Alby Hub don't actually go through the lightning network so its zero fee and you gain some privacy.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Catcher fwd 11h

True, it was not available when I was playing Monopoly with lightning, so I used Zeus wallet on my node as a Bank and WOS wallets as player wallets, but with Alby hub it will be even better, just need 30 min preparation time before the game.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 OP 6 Jan

oh great, i'll keep that in mind for the next game

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Catcher fwd 11h

Hey, Happy New Year! I'm glad you've tried it! There are couple of monopoly-like games where you can execute the same, basically all games were you have money and transactions between players, or bank to player. We were also trying to add this element to Catan as my daughter loves Catan, but it didn't end up well. I believe there is a room to explore though)