[KenWittlief]

If you dont have permission to make a game like Monopoly, then why mess around trying to make one similar? Why toy with their registered © and possibly bring grief on yourself and on FIRST

when you could start from scratch, and make a new board-game. There are many toss the dice / move a token / take a card... type of board games, so if you made a new one you would not be infringing on someone elses copywrite

I realize this takes things up a notch: instead of changing Monopoly to have a FIRST theme, you would be starting from scratch - but I think the end result will be better - a game designed to match the reality of what its like to be on a FIRST team.

(BTW, I was just reminded today of the poor ice cream vendor at a worlds fair, who ran out of dishes, "NOW what am I going to do with all this ice cream? !!!" A nearby vendor suggested making edible dishes out of his waffles - the rest is history. Sometimes when "NO!" happens, something better come out of it)