A close-to-home board game launches on the West Shore this week.

Victoria-based Outset Media, in collaboration with Walmart Canada, will issue a limited edition version of Monopoly called Langford-Opoly.

The game features familiar West Shore properties and attractions like DarcyB次元官网网址檚 Pub, the Luxton Fair, Hatley Castle and the Goldstream FarmersB次元官网网址� Market and lets players collect city blocks and trade them in for keys to the city.

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Jean-Paul Teskey, senior vice president of Outset Media Corporation said the games company and Walmart are bringing versions of this game to communities across Canada.

Walmart, which has exclusive rights to the Monopoly games, contacted Outset Media asking the company to create the game.

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The game works like regular Monopoly where players can buy properties and charge rent for those that land on them. However, it has some West Shore twists. Instead of going to jail, for example, players get stuck in a traffic jam.

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Outset Media and Walmart Canada have been releasing games like Langford-Opoly in communities all across Canada. In Miramichi, N.B., over 1,000 games were sold.

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Teskey said the games will be coming to the Walmart in Langford this week, however an exact date was not available.

The companies are producing 720 Langford-Opoly games and Teskey said once theyB次元官网网址檙e gone, theyB次元官网网址檙e gone.

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shalu.mehta@goldstreamgazette.com

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