YMMV / Monopoly Deal

• Broken Base: There are debates over the Hotel card's rule of adding 4M to the rent value of a property set. Either the Hotel supplants the House (like in the board game) and the added value goes from 3M to 4M, or the Hotel works with the House and the added value goes from 3M to 7M. Hasbro eventually settled for the former rule, but there are players who insist the latter rule is better.
• More Popular Spin Off: In terms of reception, Monopoly Deal is more positively received than the original board game even by those who are not fans of Monopoly as a whole. The card game gets praise for greatly reducing the time to finish one game while keeping it simple and fun.
• Popular Game Variant: It isn't a Monopoly game without one:
  • A simple goal change is to increase the number of complete sets from three to four or five.
  • The official rules state that a Hotel (add 4M to rent) overrides the House (adds 3M to rent) when played, changing the added value for rent from 3M to 4M. However, this rule was not clarified in its initial run, so some players assumed the Hotel added more value alongside the House in a property set, from 3M to 7M.
  • The two Deal Breakers are either reduced to one card in a deck, are removed from the game, or are treated as Money cards.
• That One Attack: The Deal Breaker allows a player to take away a complete property set (with the House and Hotel attached) from their opponent without any effort. Fortunately, there are only two in the game, and it can be mitigated by a Just Say No! card (unless the attacker also has that card), of which there are three.