Key rules of this game are familiar to us since the childhood – buy for the starting sum of "hotels" and "stations", throw cubes, yes move the chesspiece on colourful kartonke. Has got in "another's" hotel – pay. Now an old entertainment modernized: into a game card have transformed the present city.

This invention – a fruit of imagination of the transnational company Hasbro specializing on toys, games, designers and other different children's puzzles.

This game " Monopoly in a reality " (Monopoly Live) refers to, and its key rules do not differ from well-known children's "Monopoly", that, where cubes with points, chesspieces and kartonka with paths.

After registration on a site you have a starting sum (it is 15 million pounds, alas, absolutely virtual) on which you can buy to yourselves the property.

Namely — the airports, hotels and other same virtual things which as you understand, the certain image, are placed on a card of London.

With you plays five more casual players (which, owing to the Internet, can be anywhere). They also choose the initial adjustments for game.

Accordingly, if your chesspiece has got in another's kvadratik from your account the certain sum and on the contrary – hit of your contenders in your possession – increases your capital is written off.

Ah yes, the most curious – that here for chesspieces and the game cubes, defining in the casual image a direction of "courses" on a game field? These are real London taxi.

Hasbro has supplied 18 well-known black London taxi with systems of satellite navigation GPS. 24 hours per day these cars transfer the exact coordinates to a server operating game.

Taxi drivers do not reflect on courses – they simply perform the work, selecting casual passengers and landing them in destinations.

In case of long standing machines in fuses, these taxi (only it is temporary) are substituted with a computer any way changing coordinates, for maintenance of a course of game.

Obviously, which machines participate in the action – is hidden from strangers therefore to affect a course of game, really having caught in the street " the keb " – it is impossible.

The player in Monopoly Live simply chooses one of 18 machines who becomes its chesspiece.

Further to it remains only to observe of results – a server daily sends a condition of the account to the player — by e-mail or SMS.

At any moment it is possible to change any adjustments – to get rid of "property" and "to buy" something.

One game (in sense a party) are one day. And once a day among all players who have connected to Monopoly Live, quite real prizes are played.

That, ch'e a financial condition in "Monopoly" will be the greatest, will receive something quite powerful from sponsors of the project.

It can be: dear cellular telephone with a set of accessories; completely paid weekend in the London hotel; the annual subscription in the London cinemas; the paid weekend on a resort, including air tickets; tickets for a concert or for a huge big wheel of " the Eye of London " and so on.

The prize from most Hasbro is curious also is children's cardboard "Monopoly" with chesspieces and cubes, but unique, personalized. Its design will be completely changed by the player through the Internet. Then game will print and will send the winner.

It is necessary to tell, that thought up Hasbro the system provides a certain control over registration of people and disqualification for attempt of one real person to play at once in the form of several on-line players.

Results of all parties played from June, 20th till July, 17th, 2005, at each concrete player will be combined together. So the owner of the main prize (within the limits of the promo-action accompanying start of this unusual game) will be certain.

Superprize – return up to 10 thousand pounds already paid annual zaklada in large and well-known (in Britain, first of all) the financial company Motley Fool paying to the clients decent percent due to broker games and other financial "priemchikov".

Is in Monopoly Live and other material prizes.

So, as it is visible, the virtual capitals acquired due to the imagined property and chesspieces-taxi, it is quite possible to transform into the presents.

And who after that will tell, what "Monopoly" – a children's toy? Only if speech does not go about biggest "Monopoly" for a planet.