Comments on: What color is St. Charles Place in Monopoly?

Question: What color is St. Charles Place in Monopoly?

newper — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:00:23 -0800

What color is St. Charles Place in Monopoly?

Recently, my fiancee and I have been playing Monopoly Deal (a bit random and mindless, but entertaining game.) During one of the games, I mentioned that I had all the properties of a certain color. She laughed at the suggestion, even though I had those properties face up in front of me. A brief discussion followed, after which we both agreed that the St. Charles/States/Virginia property set indeed were a certain color; we just differed (significantly IMHO) as to what the actual color was! Several discussions have followed, along with much polling of family and friends, but a conclusive end to the argument has yet to be reached. So as not to taint the hive mind, I will not name any specific colors, but my question for you is this: what is the color of St. Charles Place (Pall Mall, UK Version), in Monopoly?

By: moxiedoll

moxiedoll — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:04:23 -0800

Purple, obviously.

By: amicamentis

amicamentis — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:06:31 -0800

From an image online, I would call that a 'burgundy'. But from memory, I remember it as more of a purple. My opinion may change if I had the board in front of me.

By: madcaptenor

madcaptenor — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:07:48 -0800

I would call it magenta, although wikipedia suggests magenta might be pinker.

moxiedoll: it can't be purple in a Monopoly context because Mediterranean and Baltic are purple.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:08:52 -0800

#A24476 or RGB (162,68,118) or magenta.

Web safe closest match: #993366 or RGB(153,51,102) or Dark Dull Magenta.

By: necessitas

necessitas — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:12:24 -0800

I don't have monopoly in front of me, and I haven't looked it up, but memory/instinct says magenta.

Once you have enough answers, let us know who won!!

By: Chocolate Pickle

Chocolate Pickle — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:13:00 -0800

Violet.

By: shadow vector

shadow vector — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:13:15 -0800

Not purple, Baltic/Mediterranean are purple. I would call it fuchsia or possibly magenta.

By: arcolz

arcolz — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:14:46 -0800

Well according to Wikipedia, new editions of the game have Baltic and Mediterranean as brown, and St. Charles/States/Virginia unchanged.

I would just call it magenta.

By: necessitas

necessitas — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:16:51 -0800

The monopoly companion calls it light purple.

By: bz

bz — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:30:45 -0800

The poster child for puce, methinks.

By: PowerCat

PowerCat — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:31:29 -0800

I'll go with light purple also.

By: chrisamiller

chrisamiller — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:36:25 -0800

Baltic and Mediterranean are clearly Indigo. St Charles and it's kin are Purple

By: spinturtle

spinturtle — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:42:27 -0800

agree with the fuchsia/magenta hybrid

By: spinturtle

spinturtle — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:43:20 -0800

The monopoly companion calls it light purple.

pffft, what do they know

By: pemberkins

pemberkins — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:53:36 -0800

I would call it magenta.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:54:06 -0800

I'm changing my vote to something in between red-violet and Tyrian Purple (also), as even when you call something dark magenta, people keep confusing it with the screaming pink version of magenta.

See this for examples of the fuchsia flavour of magenta, magenta dye (a coal tar dye that is fairly close to St. Charles), process magenta (MY EYES!!), and electric magenta (MY BURNING EMPTY SOCKETS!!).

By: bertrandom

bertrandom — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:05:13 -0800

Eggplant!

By: rokusan

rokusan — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:13:14 -0800

We called it magenta. But we were precocious little monsters.

By: carpyful

carpyful — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:16:12 -0800

I call it anything from purple to light purple to magenta. It definitely isn't pink (as others like to call it).

And during gameplay, context can usually differentiate between when you're talking about St. Charles or Baltic. That or you just call the latter "dark purple".

By: scody

scody — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:24:23 -0800

We called it mulberry, after the Crayola of the same shade. (Magenta, to me, is brighter.)

By: nat

nat — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:04:07 -0800

We always called it light purple, but knew it was magenta.

By: that girl

that girl — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:02:19 -0800

Purplish-pink

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:17:39 -0800

Closest match here is Medium Violet Red, #FFC71585

By: pseudostrabismus

pseudostrabismus — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:20:48 -0800

Red-based purple.

By: missmagenta

missmagenta — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:37:13 -0800

so what colours did you think it was? Based on pictures of monopoly boards I've seen it ranges from definitely pink to definitely purple and every colour inbetween depending on the version you have. On my old classic (UK) version it was pink, not quite bright enough to be magenta (but it was old and faded a bit). I can't remember how what shade it was on any of the other versions we had (Gold Anniversary, Star Wars & Manchester United)

By: houseofdanie

houseofdanie — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:50:57 -0800

Berry.

By: sambosambo

sambosambo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:03:26 -0800

According to the Hasbro Website, St. Charles Place is Magenta.

The other properties are Blue, Green, Yellow, Red, Orange, Light Blue and Purple.

By: pamspanda

pamspanda — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:17:22 -0800

Magenta!

By: usonian

usonian — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:09:54 -0800

Darkish Magenta. Baltic and Mediterranean are definitely more of a proper Purple

New editions use Brown for the slum properties? BROWN?! Sacrilege! I think that offends me more than the switch from light brown M&Ms to blue ones.

By: PontifexPrimus

PontifexPrimus — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:04:23 -0800

Name That Color gives "Rouge (approx.)" as a name for #A24476 and "Flirt (approx.)" for #A5007B (color sampled from the link by pseudostrabismus).
I love this tool because I am really, really bad at distinguishing colors yet like to put a name "that greenish blue" or "that reddish-purple-y-browny color".

By: 23skidoo

23skidoo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:53:07 -0800

Magenta.

By: kittyprecious

kittyprecious — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:57:55 -0800

Heliotrope. (Which I think was the closest option in the 36-color Pentech set I had as a kid.)

By: necessitas

necessitas — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:04:30 -0800

Sambosambo - that's for the "here and now" version. Elsewhere on the site, the refer to it as light purple, and baltic is dark purple.

Even though they call it light purple, I still think of it as magenta.

By: newper

newper — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:41:45 -0800

I've always called it purple (or light purple) and the rarely used Baltic/Mediterranean as dark purple. I also call the Oriental/Connecticut/Vermont stretch light blue (not cyan or malibu or some other esoteric color.) My fiancee refers to the color of St. Charles as pink. For the life of me, I cannot see how someone could interpret that color as pink as opposed to purple. I'm happy to state that we have come to some common ground -- the true color is magenta.

(but this is a purple magenta! ;)

By: Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell

Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:26:43 -0800

Huh, you know. I was all prepared to say that your fiancee is crazy (and that this AskMe thread backs you up). But then I noticed you said something which no one in comments seems to have responded to - you've been playing some bastardized card-game version of the game called Monopoly Deal, not the standard board game.

And having a look at the cards - which seem distinctly different from the regular Monopoly cards - I can see how someone might call them pink. I'd probably still call them a light purple, but your fiancee is not totally off-base.