The Race Car’s Luck

The Race Car’s Luck

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The Monopoly game board
Was ready for the big game.

The national monopoly
Championship game
Celebrating 90 years
Of monopoly gaming.

President Donald Trump
Would judge
the championship round
Held in Trump Tower.

In recognition of his
Long association
With the game.

The winner of the game
Would receive
100,000 dollars in prize money.

There were five contestants
Who had survived brutal
State-level challenges.

Each player would be given
Their choice of tokens
The race car was ready
He felt lucky.

Thinking his master
Could cruise around the board
And win the game.

The game was on
The race car was right
His owner was on fire
And bought Park Place
And won the game.

The race car sighed
He knew he would be retired
At the end of the game
That was life
As a monopoly token
After all.

The contest's rules require that follow the prompt's requirements exactly -- even when (as was arguably the case this time) the prompt is grammatically suspect.

Half of today's entries were disqualified for replacing "in a hole" with "into a hole", even though "into a hole" is probably what yesterday's judge meant to say (and, in fact, how the other entries interpreted the phrase, even though leaving the phrase as required by the prompt).

"Crawl in a hole" means that you are already in a hole and you are moving around in it on hands and knees: "in" = location where. "Crawl into a hole" means you start outside the hole and move into it on hands and knees: "into" = location towards which.



NEW PROMPT


On February 6th, 1935, Charles Darrow filed a patent for the Monopoly board game in its more-or-less modern form. For many years, it was believed he was the sole inventor of the game. In fact, though, versions of the game can be traced back to at least 1903, and the (ironically) anti-monopolistic "Landlord's Game".

For tomorrow, write a story or poem told from the POV of a game token in Monopoly. 
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