To remind the younger generation what life under Communism was like, Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) has created a Monopoly-like game, called Queue:
Just like in the original Monopoly, acquisition is the name of the game. In this case, however, that means struggling to get basic necessities such as food, clothing and furniture. “In the game, you send your family out to get items on a shopping list and they find that the five shops are sold out or that there hasn’t been a delivery that day,” the IPN’s Karol Madaj told Spiegel Online Thursday, explaining that the game “highlights the tough realities of life under Communism.”
Indeed, there are many ways in which the game, which is called “Kolejka” after the Polish word for queue or line, builds frustration. Some rules allow other players to jump the line and get the last of a certain product, while others force players to give up their place in the queue.
The article describes the game as “about communism rather than capitalism,” but the original Monopoly started out as a piece of semi-socialist propaganda called The Landlord Game.