Auctions also mean that if your opponents overextend into double digits cash, you can buy anything that gets landed on for their balance plus 1. Very tasty to get dark blues for less than their rent prices.

It's in the official rules.

Which is why the best strategy is to buy 4 houses and never upgrade to a hotel. It prevents others from buying houses. And you can’t just skip straight to a hotel in the actual rules either. You have to have 4 houses and the next turn you can buy a hotel.

Well, the game was basically designed to show that rent as a concept is frustrating rich-get-richer bullshit. When people get frustrated, they try to tweak the system to make it less frustrating. Ultimately, it just delays the inevitable.

There was a spread of "Memes" or cultural context Pre-Intetnet. It traveled by mouth to mouth and sometimes via Television or Radio.

The legend that Maryiln Manson had one Rob removed to give himself BJs is one that comes to mind.

Or, different but also relevant, how kids call the place where they can't be caught during a game of catch (I am no native speaker, so no idea if "catch" is the name of the game. You run after each other, once you touch another player they become the one to catch allothers). In my part of the woods you would agree on a (say, a tree) and couldn't be cought while beeing in contact with it. We called is "House".

Edit: It's called Tag, as has been pointed out. Also corrected some spelling.

That was the goal of the design, it wasn't meant to be a game. It was social commentary.

it's a lot like soccer