Eh, not crazy about Monopoly. Just get the orange properties and the game is your oyster.

We play Clue every now and then, which has had some... interesting outcomes. There are so many times when I have a 50/50 chance of getting the accusation right and if I don't take it, one of the next people to go is bound to get it. And on a few occasions, we've had someone make a mistake when shuffling the cards and picking the end result cards face-down, so we ended up with something like two suspects, a room, but no weapons, or something weird along those lines. Sure, it messes up the game but does create comedy.

If you want really decent games that are outside of the traditional board game circle, check out Last Night On Earth, which is a pretty good zombie apocalypse game. Another good one is Descent: Journeys in the Dark, which is more like the lines of Dungeons and Dragons, but isn't complicated at all to learn. And if you want a good card game, there's Dominion and it's plethora of expansions.