The world’s most popular board game featuring 20 cities of the world became available in stores on 26th August 2008 in 50 countries and 37 languages including Latvian.
Nearly 6 million votes were cast for 68 cities during the six weeks of online voting. Not only did Riga make it in the top 20 selected cities it came second place to join Montreal in the dark blue property group which is considered to be the most prestigous property group in the board game.
“MONOPOLY Šeit un tagad: Pasaules izdevums” is available from most games stores in Riga for LVL 35-40.
Aimed at children 3 years and older the Power Professor educational computer is the first of its kind to be adapted for the Latvian language. Both the keyboard and LCD screen display all of the Latvian letters (except for the now rarely used ō and ŗ letters). The audio responses are spoken in Latvian: “Sveiks“, “Izvēlies uzdevumu“, “Bravo“, “Atā“ and others.
You can choose from 24 different exercises: Zudušais vārds, Jauktais vārds, Zudušais burts, Sinonīmi, Antonīmi, Anagrammas, Daudzskaitlis, Liekais burts, Mainītie burti, Vārda minēšana, Burti uzbrūk, Zudušais skaitlis, Saskaitīšana, Atņemšana, Reizināšana, Dalīšana, Līdzīgās figūras, Pāri, Salīdzināšana, Zvirbuļa ķērāji, Mēŗķa skaitlis, Zilbju medīšana, Angliski-latviski and Latviski-angliski.
The User’s guide is also in Latvian. The Lexibook JC250LV retails for about Ls 45.
Parker/Hasbro, responsible for the most played commercial board game in the world, released a localised Latvian version back in 2002, featuring streets, train stations and utilities from Rīga.
Currency is in Latvian lats with all of the correct denominations (1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 500). Instructions are also in Latvian. If you are a fan of Monopoly you’ll thorougly enjoy the Latvian version.
