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I’m not really sure how exactly to describe this one, but I do know that it’s pretty darn cool! There is a game of Monopoly going on right now that has real live game pieces racing around London!

We have turned London into a real-life playing board, and real taxi cabs into real-life playing pieces. All you have to do is make as much money from rent as possible, from five other cabs who are your opponents in the game.

We’ve kitted out 18 cabbies with GPS (Global Positioning System), meaning we can pinpoint their exact whereabouts in London. They will be going about their normal day, picking up and dropping off customers all over town.

All that you’ve got to do is spend the £15m we give you on properties from around the Monopoly Here & Now board, distribute your apartments and hotels and choose your cabbie. You are placed into a game with your cabbie and 5 other taxi drivers, all travelling around London. Every time one of the other cabs stops outside one of your properties, you get paid rent. Any time your cabbie lands on a property you don’t own, you pay up. Simple!

This is the world’s biggest game of Monopoly. The locations are real, the cabbies are real and the other players are very real. It’s your job to beat them and bag the prizes…

How crazy is that? I know there are three cab companies here in Chicago that have GPS systems in their cabs and you can track them through Google Maps. How fun would be to play a nice game of Chicago-opoly?

I have no idea how they set it all up, but I did my usual strategy. Buy up the Green properties, load them up with hotels and watch the money roll in!

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