Anti-Monopoly

The 'Bust~the~Trust!' GameThe basic idea of the game is to end off the monopolistic practices of the 3-company-combinations of the game board. The players are Trust-Busting lawyers going about the board slapping lawsuits on the monopolies. The winning trust buster is the one who ends with the largest number of social-credit points when one of the players runs out of money.There 3 kinds of company combinations on the board: Oligopolies, Trusts and Monopolies, marked by one, two and three 'accusation circles' respectively. 'Accusing' is done by placing a small, round chip of the same color as your token on such a circle. When all accusation circles of a combination are covered, the monopolistic practices of that combination have been ended. An accusation chip can be bought from the 'Budget-Commissioner' when lending money, he provides a Social-Credit card as an IOU.Variant rules are supplied for a Low-Budget Game and a Trading Game.Anspach fought --and won-- a vicious court battle against Hasbro (and others) over this game.Anti-Monopoly was briefly (1976-1982) published as 'Anti' whilst the company was forbidden to use the word 'Monopoly'. In 1987, Anti-Monopoly was withdrawn and Anti-Monopoly II was renamed 'Anti-Monopoly'. Plenty of potential for confusion there, eh? - BoardGameGeek