It's all legal. What you're really asking is whether Parker Brothers (or whoever publishes Monopoly nowadays) could sue you and win. To which my non-lawyer answers would be: yes, yes, and most likely.The longer it would take to demonstrate the similar, the better your chances; in other words, the more you tweak and change the rules, the more it becomes your own thing.
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It's all legal. What you're really asking is whether Parker Brothers (or whoever publishes Monopoly nowadays) could sue you and win. To which my non-lawyer answers would be: yes, yes, and most likely.The longer it would take to demonstrate the similar, the better your chances; in other words, the more you tweak and change the rules, the more it becomes your own thing.