The little mustachioed Monopoly guy (Alfonso?) didn’t get where he is today by making one little board game and selling it until folks got tired of seedy Atlantic City landmarks and quaint anachronisms (railroads!). No, the little robber baron knows people are suckers for the new, so he’s made and sold version after version of the classic pasttime, from the celebrated original to GenericStateUniversityopoly, to the perennial chick magnet Lord of the Rings Trilogy Monopoly, which is a DCist favorite.

Now, a faithful DCist tipster tells us that the good people at Hasbro are developing a new and improved Monopoly release to be called, a little ominously, The Here and Now Edition (eat, drink, and roll dice, Hasbrothers, for tomorrow we’ll be buying hotels in the hereafter). To build interest in the game, Monopoly is asking folks to vote online for their favorite city landmarks in 22 cities. The highest vote getters in each city will be represented, and the highest vote getter overall will receive the coveted “Boardwalk” slot, and, we imagine, urban bragging rights for the foreseeable future. For Washington, the game planners have chosen the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, and the White House, and currently the White House is running away with the voting. There’s plenty of time left to get your clicks in, though (until May 22nd), and we continue to hold out hope for a Black Cat write-in victory and the continued inclusion of the little top hat game piece, which we understand Denny Hastert prefers for city travel over any vehicle that doesn’t run on coal and the souls of little children.