You can’t “go to jail” and you can’t “pass go  and collect $200”, but in most respects “Caymanopoly” is the same game of relentless acquisition and cut-throat competition the world has grown to love.

Bankrupting your neighbours appears to have a bright future judging by Junior Achievement’s Tuesday launch of the localised version of the traditional Parker Brothers board game “Monopoly”, originally developed in 1904 around the streets and properties of Atlantic City, New Jersey.

“Caymanopoly”, initially created in 1983 as a fund-raising effort by Junior Achievement, contains the same 40 spaces as the original, but names them for local companies, including A.L Thompson — with four squares of its own – and Cayman National, John Doak, Digicel, Fosters, Caledonian, Ecay, Kirk Freeport and the Cayman Islands Cancer Society.

The game is produced under licence by a Mississippi-based company that looks after the original copyright, and does not allow use of the traditional “Community Chest” and “Chance” cards, replacing them with “Pirate’s Chest” and “Fate”. The property deeds have a unique design; the racecar, shoe and other player pieces have been replaced by bright plastic; and the four corner squares have been rechristened “Start “, with the PriceaterhouseCoopers logo; “In Court”, with the Maples name; “Landing Zone” with Camana Bay; and “Speeding: Go to  Court”, sponsored by DMS Broadcasting.

Junior Achievement executives explained on Tuesday that the organisation gains from this third iteration of the Caymanopoly both through purchase by local companies of slots on the board and from the $30 retail price tag. Outlets include The Book Nook, Books & Books, the National Trust, Red Sail Sports, It’s Sugar — at the Royal Watler Terminal — and the Chamber of Commerce offices in Governor’s Square.