Luke Chua, BullionStar COO and Torgny Persson, BullionStar CEO sum up their impressions of FreedomFest 2016 You can only have one Castle per scene. You can't add any more Village Dwellings. You cannot build on a scene if any scene in its color set is mortgaged. As soon as you get a color set, you can start buying Village Dwellings (you don't have to wait for your turn). Scenes can be traded for cash, other scenes am If the snowflake token is already on someone's property when you land on this space or draw a relevant card, simply move it. Disaster Tax and Water Tax

Pay the price shown on the board space and take the Title Deed card from the Bank. Don't want to buy it? The highest bidder pays the Bank. If no one wants to bid on the scene, that's fine. Nobody pays anything, and the Title Deed stays with the Bank. Unlike other special Monopoly editions, there is a new playing mechanic - Snowflakes. When players land on a Snowflake space or draw a certain Chance card, they can place the Snowflake token on any scene they own. Whoever lands there pays double rent. If they do, you must pay the rent shown on the scene's Title Deed card. If they don't ask before the next player rolls the dice, you don't have to pay!You can use up to three turns to try for doubles. If you don't roll any doubles by your third turn in Jail, pay M50 and use your last roll as your next move. Once you have four Village Dwellings on all scenes in a color set, you can pay to upgrade to a Castle. Throughout the 3 day convention, attendees could enter a draw at the BullionStar stand for a chance to win one of three substantial silver bar prizes. Additionally, everyone who entered the draw received a free 1/10 troy oz silver coin of .999 purity produced by Golden State Mint, a coin with a design based on the Walking Liberty silver half-dollar historically issued by the US Mint. Pay the Castle cost on the Title Deed card, return all four Village Dwellings to the Bank and put a Castle on the scene.

Move around the board buying as many properties as you can. The more you own, the more rent you'll be able to collect from other players.Roll doubles on your next turn. If you do, you're free! Use the roll to move, and that's the end of your turn. In a Reason.TV interview conducted at FreedomFest with Johnson, former governor of New Mexico, and his running mate for vice-president, William Weld, former Governor of Massachusetts, Weld opened the interview with the interesting perspective that there is a “ frozen monopoly of the two parties that has frozen a lot of people’s thinking in place,… And they think, ‘I have to be a right-winger,’ or, ‘I have to be a left-winger.’ They’re not thinking, ‘What do I think?” Steve Forbes – Gold Keeps its Intrinsic Value Watch out! If you roll doubles three times in a row, you must immediately go to Jail! Do not complete your third turn. You must sell all buildings on a color set to the Bank before you can sell or trade a scene. You cannot sell or trade buildings to another player.

You get to activate Elsa's ice powers by sharing one of your favorite family memories! After sharing, place the snowflake token on any scene that you own, occupied or unoccupied. There are four Element spaces: Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water. When you land on one, travel ahead to the next Element space. Snowflake On the subject of gold, Forbes said that “ gold is an insurance policy against turmoil and against government’s mis-behaviour towards the currency” and he underscored that it was important to remember that “ gold keeps its intrinsic value“, and that the price changes in gold are just people’s changing perceptions of the value of currencies. No doubt most BullionStar readers would tend to agree with these sentiments.Given the current media focus on Republican and Democratic candidates in the upcoming 2016 US presidential election, US and international media often forget that there are other parties’ candidate nominees running in the US presidential race such as Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party and Jill Stein of the Green Party. And so FreedomFest was eye-opening in that it was a reminder that other political parties do exist in the US apart from these two powerful incumbent parties, and that there is plenty of political thinking in the US outside the mainstream media’s narrowly defined consensus. When it comes to getting the whole family involved in an entertaining activity, you can't beat board games. Get your hands on all-time classics such as Jenga, Monopoly and Cluedo and get the ball rolling on some fun family time. We even have junior versions of these games and an array of brain games to get your kids thinking and help sharpen their minds. Family board games