Have you ever played Monopoly and had to deal with someone who wanted to cheat their way to a win? Have you ever done that? Hasbro conducted a study that found about half of players will attempt to cheat at Monopoly. So they bowed to the trend and designed a Monopoly edition that encourages cheating. It comes with a stack of 15 extra cards that direct you in an attempt to cheat your way around the board and collect more money.

Some of the cheats include:

• Stealing money from the bank
• Placing a hotel on one of your pieces of property
• Removing a hotel from someone else's property
• Taking an extra $100 in Monopoly money from the bank when you pass go.
• Moving another player's token instead of your own on your turn.
• Giving someone less money than you owe them.
• Collecting rent for someone else's property

If a player succeeds at any given task, they get rewarded. On the flip side, if they get caught, there are consequences. The back of the cheat cards list specific rewards and punishments for each cheat. 

There are other differences in the cheater's edition that you can read about at Business Insider. The game will be available in stores this fall.  -via Uproxx

You've seen that bird that constantly drinks, maybe only at Grandma's house, or at a local restaurant. It's pitched as a perpetual motion machine, but you know there's no such thing. How does it work? Bill Hammack, the Engineer Guy (previously at Neatorama) explains that toy that fascinated you as a kid.

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The secret is in how the bird is built. The liquid inside it is not water, and the air inside it is not air at all -it's a vacuum! The mechanism of its movement is quite interesting. And there's an explanation of why the bird drinks whiskey faster than it drinks water, which has nothing to do with getting drunk. -via Boing Boing

Artists who create artwork using only paper run in to one major problem with the medium- the flatness.

Without ink or paint to create the illusion of depth, shading and shadows those cut up pieces of paper end up looking way too flat, and flatness in artwork is far from impressive.

The geeky and colorful scenes created by Brazilian artist Nathanna Érica are anything but flat, and although she does use a little ink or paint here and there for texture her pieces are pretty much all paper and absolutely awesome!

Nathanna sells prints of her artwork and the pieces themselves through her Etsy shop, but if you want to look at it all over and over again 32 of her works have been collected in the art book Samba.

See I Create A World Of My Own Using Paper, Scissors And A Little Too Much Color here

You'd think that a skull-and-crossbones symbol would strike fear into people no matter where they are, making it a good warning symbol for danger in all languages. But over time, the Jolly Roger came to be associated with pirates and treasure maps, so not only is the fear muted, the symbol became attractive. Hey, there may be treasure buried here! What seemed to be common sense became useless to warn people away from dangerous places, like, say, a nuclear waste disposal site. So how do we label such dangers in a way that people who don't read, or don't know the language, will know what they mean thousands of years in the future?

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Designing a warning sign is much more complicated than you'd think. In addition to this video from Vox, you can read the accompanying article at 99% Invisible.

See also: How the Government Plans to Protect Our Nuclear Waste.

Not the Face by Brinkerhoff

There's an unspoken rule that applies to all sports, physical activities involving two people and most non-professional and non-lethal fights, and that rule is- not the face! This rule was put into place because most people don't want their faces to get permanently jacked up from a bit of roughhousing, since our faces are how we get dates and they're an important part of how people perceive us when we first meet. And while this unspoken rule should be known by all it seems some people are unaware of this important rule, and it seems like these face-breakers always have claws...

Make sure everyone knows the rules by wearing this Not The Face t-shirt by Brinkerhoff, it's a fun way to educate people about the importance of preserving your precious mug!

Visit Brinkerhoff's Facebook fan page and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more fun and informative designs:

View more designs by Brinkerhoff | More Funny T-shirts | New T-Shirts

Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama!

You'll want to set your alarm clock pretty early on Wednesday, or stay up really late on the West Coast, because January 31st will give us a super blue blood moon. No, it's not "blueblood," a term meaning royalty, but a lunar trifecta. A "supermoon" is one that's closer to the earth than usual, meaning it will look a little bit larger. A "blue moon," like the song, is the second full moon of the month (this one barely squeezes in for January), and a "blood moon" means an eclipse, which is the really neat part. The total eclipse can be seen from Asia and Australia, and the US will see a partial eclipse. That will make the moon appear red, so that's why it's called a blood moon.

Here’s the deal: On the West Coast, the eclipse will start at 3:48am and the totality of the eclipse will wrap up around 6am. Yes, friends, this is an AM viewing opportunity — set your alarms. In Mountain Time, it’ll start at 4:48, but Central and Eastern it’s a little trickier. You’ll need to be somewhere fairly high up at 5:48 or 6:48 respectively to see the whole thing unfold, and you’ll need to move quickly, as the moon sets around 6am and 7am, respectively.

See more tips on viewing and photographing the super blue blood moon at Uproxx. For more about the science of the super blue blood moon, we turn to Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer. 

What's funny also is that February has 28 days this year, so it won't have a full Moon in it at all! We have a full Moon the day before February 1, and the next one on March 1, the day after February 28. The nickname for this event is black Moon (though the term has other meanings as well). This happens roughly every 20 years or so.

He's got a lot more to tell us about the lunar trifecta at SyFy Wire's Bad Astronomy.

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Thanks to James Corden it paid to be a loser at the 2018 Grammy Awards, because the three "losers" in the Best Comedy Album category received something way better than a Grammy- they got a consolation puppy.

This may be the first time potty training was an issue at The #GRAMMYs! pic.twitter.com/cNhr6VNhWO

— CBS (@CBS) January 29, 2018

James handed out adorable puppies to Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan and Sarah Silverman after they all lost to Dave Chappelle, so they would feel better about their loss, and the on-screen moments created by this warm and fuzzy gag were priceless.

Some animal rights activists had a problem with Corden's decision to use real puppies, but his father went on to LBC and set them straight:

“A guy across the aisle from me he got one of these puppies… he had his children there, they were stroking the puppy.

“Almost as soon as the camera [was turned off] the puppy was handed back to the handler as were all the puppies.

“It was a lovely moment that just lightened the mood.”

Are you kidding? Of course they were fine, those lucky dogs got to hang out with three of the greatest comedians of all time!

-Via 22 Words

One of the perks of living in a Florida retirement community is the "early bird special," where restaurants offer discounted meals at off-peak hours. It arose to spread out business through the day, and elderly people on a fixed income thrived on it. At least they did until recently. As Baby Boomers retire to Florida, either richer or poorer than the generation before, they've killed the early bird special. Fewer eateries are offering it, and those that do don't even want to use the term, because Boomers do not want to be reminded that they are old.

Rosie Ross, a snowbird — though she prefers the term “sunbird” — who spends summers in upstate New York and winters in South Florida with her husband Bernard, told me that “the notion of early bird specials is something we attribute to older seniors, the same ones who sneak leftover rolls and sugar packets in their purses.” Though Bernard’s mother lives in North Miami, the Rosses didn’t want to live like she does. “We settled on a very cool active-adult community in the very cool city of Delray Beach,” Rosie said. The Rosses dine out multiple times a week, eat everything from Japanese to vegan, prefer to eat around 7 p.m., and “do not eat out based on early bird specials at all.” I could feel the pride emanating from her email.

When the new generation of retires does pinch pennies, they’re finding new ways of doing it. In 2014, Americans 65 and older ate out an average of 193 times a year, and 63 percent of those meals were at fast-food restaurants, where a cheap meal can be had no matter the time of day. “A lot of people will drive to the Wendy’s, the burger place, for hamburgers,” Isabel Lubchansky told me. A $7 cheeseburger combo beats a $12 diner platter any day, and it’s the same price no matter when you pick it up. Captain’s Catch Seafood Restaurant was the only place I found a line out the door for the early bird special, and the only people below the age of 75 appeared to be accompanying nurses or family. Their early bird dinner starts at $10.95, which is around $4 more than a Wendy’s burger combo. And while some reviewers have raved about the early bird, one also notes, “This is an older restaurant.”

The demise of the early bird special in Florida tells us a lot about the changing demographics of American retirees. Read about those changes at Eater. -via Digg

Have you ever felt like those arcade machines that give out prizes seem like nothing but a money munchin' scam?

You drop quarters and shove dollars in the slot yet the claws refuse to pick up those plush toys, the razor refuses to cut through the string and the light never stops on the right spot when you hit the button no matter how quick your reflexes.

This isn't just paranoia, these machines were made to sucker people out of their money, and inventor Mark Rober was sick of losing money to these greedy machines.

So he created a device to beat a redemption game called Cyclone and ended up discovering the arcade's dirty little secret- the game is totally rigged, so your chances of winning tickets from Cyclone are virtually nil.

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There are those who throw footballs, and there are those who throw pottery. Which one is more useful in the grand scheme of things? A double pun from Raynato Castro and Alex Culang at Buttersafe reminds us that the Super Bowl is this weekend. I'm sure you don't need an explanation of the jokes, but they included one in the commentary below the comic at Buttersafe, just in case.  

Adulting: Failing by Tobe Fonseca

People who sport funny shirts are a special breed of human, one who knows the value of a smile and a laugh and actually enjoys spreading warmth and happiness to their fellow humans instead of negativity.

These are the people who have a geeky fashion sense and a passion for artfully funny designs on tees, and they will absolutely adore the hundreds of amazingly funny t-shirt designs found in the NeatoShop!

Are you one of these funny tee loving folks?

Dreaming of the Rebellion by Jim Murrin

Do you have a soft spot in your heart for geeky tees?

Dead Inside by BeezleBub Ross

Then the NeatoShop is going to change your life with their spectacular assortment of tees!

Stop Talking by rocketman

Blue lights flashing in your rearview mirror will always make you nervous, even if you've done nothing wrong. This young lady had to roll her eyes, because it's probably happened to her before. Will she get a ticket this time?  

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There are some things about living in a small town that you just can't get away from, until you get away completely. -via reddit

Social media has allowed us all to put our thoughts, feelings and favorite memes out there for the entire online world to see which, as we all know, is both a good and bad thing.

For the average person this social freedom allows them to rant, share pics and thoughts from their day and basically act like they normally do with their friends, but for celebrities social media gives them the chance to go bonkers.

Norm Macdonald is a bit of a goofball, so you'd expect his Twitter feed to be full of jokes and funny observations, but instead he uses the power of the tweet to dump hours of sports play-by-plays on his followers:

Is it a joke? Is Norm drinking heavily again? Nobody is really sure, but I guess if you hate comedy, love sports and don't have a TV or a radio then Norm's your guy!

But if you prefer social media feeds related to food then you might enjoy the Instagram account @onionringsworldwide, which was started by the singer Lorde as an inside joke.

There you'll get to see "every onion ring I encounter, rated" and absolutely nothing about Lorde or her music, which may actually expand her fanbase to include chefs and foodies who respect her opinions on onion rings.

Plus Lorde isn't above eating onion rings "from the service stop Burger King near Hatfield", now that's what I call adventurous eating!

See 5 Famous People Who Are Pure Madness On Social Media here (NSFW language)

Artist PJ McQuade makes new geeky greeting cards for every occasion, every year, and his 2018 Valentines are now available at his Etsy store CastleMcQuade. They feature your favorite pop culture icons, many of whom would be completely unexpected in a romantic Valentine, but they work. Even evil villains have one great romantic line, or one that can be altered for the occasion. For example, Gollum's Valentine says, "You're Precious To Me." FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (from Twin Peaks) says, "You're a Damn Fine Cup of Coffee!" (That one is new for this year, along with Kylo Ren) You could probably guess the quote from Ian Malcolm on the Jurassic Park Valentine, which comes with a illustration of two dinosaurs falling in love inside, too. If you can't decide which one is best, you can get a collection of 17 different Valentines, and he'll even customize the selection!  -via Geeks Are Sexy

People with way too much money who don't know the meaning of the words "savings" and "frugality" like to drop a bundle on expensive bottles of booze at nightclubs so they can look really cool to their fellow clubgoers.

But to their credit these people normally drink the booze they've just dropped a bundle on, unlike the clumsy guy in this video shared by Ibiza Club News who fumbles a bottle of champagne that cost him £30,000 like an absolute idiot.

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Later when his kids ask him why they have no college fund he can tell them that in his younger days dad was the kind of guy who literally threw tens of thousands of pounds away while livin' that flashy nightclub life. Sorry kids!

-Via Munchies