Monopoly - Neighborhoods

2-4 Players
8+
30-45 minutes

Components

Each player receives

• 1 pawn
• 6 neighborhoods (Suburbia, Residential downtown, Main shopping area, Downtown shopping, Business district and Industrial distinct)
• 10 street tiles

• 50 properties tiles ( houses, malls, hotels and office buildings) showing:

  • Type
  • Neighborhood
  • Points gained when placed (1-4)

• 1 bag
• Resource board. Money, tenants (families, shops and businesses) and recognition points are recorded. When resources are gained advance on the resource track. Move the markers back when spending resources.

Preparation

Each player takes a bag with 50 property tiles, one resource board with 5 markers, 1 pawn, 6 neighborhood tiles and 10 street tiles

Players create the map by linking the 6 neighborhood tiles via streets.

There are limitations:

• Two neighborhoods cannot touch; should be linked via streets
• One cannot link two neighborhoods via more than 1 street
• A street not linking two neighborhoods cannot be placed

Place the pawn in a neighborhood
Place markers on the resource board (at 0)

Playing the game

Every turn has three rounds

Round 1 - Roll dice, move and collect resources.

Roll dice and move along the traffic arrows. Every time players land in a neighborhood they receive:

• Suburbia – 4 families
• Residential downtown – 3 stores and 1 money
• Main shopping area – 3 families and 1 money
• City center – 4 stores
• Business district – 4 money resources
• Industrial distinct – 4 businesses

Following a dice roll, all players move and collect resources.

Round 2 - Draw properties and place on the board

Players take turns to take one property from the bag. If they have the resources required (see Placing properties) they have two options

• Spend resources and place the property on any square in the neighborhood.
• Place the property face down to the right of the resource board in the Pipeline (to be used in the next round). Round ends
  If a property is placed another tile can be drawn from the bag, repeat the options above.

If and only if a property drawn cannot be placed on the board due to lack of resources there are two options

• Put the property on the Market (the right side of the resource board, face up). Each property placed on the Market will score 1 point at the end of the game. Round ends.
• Place the property in the Pipeline face down. Round ends. Reminder: when a property is placed on the board the round continues, when a property is placed either in the Pipeline or the Market the round ends.

Round 3 Use the Pipeline

Players that have properties in the Pipeline, count them, return them to the bag and draw am equal number of tiles. Players can (but don’t have to) place all properties they have resources for on the board. Properties not placed on the board stay in the Pipeline face down and will be use in the following turns.

Other rules

Placing properties and moving on the board

Following resources are required to place properties on the board:

• Houses - 1 money and 2 families
• Malls - 1 money and 2 stores
• Hotels - 1 money, 1 family and 1 store
• Office building - 1 money and 2 businesses

When player lands next to a street he is forced to move from that neighborhood to the adjacent one in the next turn. A player can also move to a different neighborhood at any time via a street.

Gaining/using recognition points
Every time a player lands on a square with a property he receives 3 recognition points. 3 recognition points can be exchanged at any time for any other resource.

End of game
Game ends when one player finishes all tiles from the bag (they are all on the board or on the market). Players must finish that round.

Scoring
Sum up the points of properties on the board. Add 1 point for any property on the market. For each neighborhood fully occupied one extra point per property is awarded (e.g. Suburbia can score 12 extra points). Player with most points wins

Alternate dice movement mechanic

Use 6 dice (1 D4 - white, 1D6 - orange, 1D8 -, 2D10, 1D12) with color and number of faces matching each neighborhood. Roll all dices. Players look at the dice representing the neighborhood they are in and move to the square with the number shown by dice. Changing neighborhoods happens in two ways:

• Forced. When landing on a square next to a street. Next time move according to the dice of the adjacent neighborhood
• At will. If and only if a dice roll from a adjacent neighborhood (connected via street) is higher than the roll for the neighborhood the player is in.

Magnate

Object:

Score points by amassing matching properties, hoarding cash, and driving your opponents broke.

Components:

• Game board
• Action board
• Chance cards
• Move marker
• Each player:
• Ownership markers
• Choice token
• House and hotel markers
• Six-sided die

Set up:

Each player chooses a color and takes his or her ownership markers, turn choice token, and starting cash of $10. Lay out the action and game boards. Place the Move Marker on the Go space in the middle track. Players roll to see who starts the first Choice Phase. Shuffle the Chance cards, give one to each player, and place the rest in a pile. Turn one face up.

Game Play:

A round of play consists of three phases.

Choice Phase:

Starting with the player with First Pick and proceeding clockwise, all players place their choice tokens on an action or choose no action. Actions are as follows:

• First Pick: Next choice phase, this player gets first pick. This player also has first move this round.
• Control Moves: Next Move Phase, this player will choose the path of the Move Marker around the board for each player’s turn. If no player chooses Control Moves, control remains with the last player who chose it, or with the First Pick player if there was no previous controlling player.
• Extra Auction: After the Move Phase, there will be an Extra Auction (see below).
• Chance Card Face Up: The player takes the face up Chance Card and flips another to replace it.
• Chance Card Face Down: The player takes a Chance Card from the pile.
• Roll Again: After any die roll in the Move Phase, the player may force a re-roll for movement. The second roll replaces the first. Some actions are free, and some require payments. Only one player may pick each action space. Players may choose no action. Once all players have chosen or abstained, proceed to the Move Phase.

Move Phase:

During this phase, each player takes a turn as the active player. The player who has selected “Control Moves” (the controlling player) takes the first turn as the active player, and the role of active player proceeds clockwise. A turn is as follows:

• Roll: The active player rolls the die, and the controlling player moves the Move Marker around the board the number of spaces indicated. The board has three tracks – inner, middle, and outer – and the movement must go counter-clockwise around the board within the track the Move Marker starts. If the marker reaches a corner shift space, the controlling player may elect to shift to a different track at the cost of one move. The player may not re-enter a shift space on the same turn. The Go spaces are not shift spaces; no track changing is allowed at the Go spaces.

• Results: If the player lands on an unowned property, that property is put up for auction. The active player (not the controlling player) gets the first bid. Bids must be in multiples of the property’s value. E.g., if the property value is 3, then legal bids are 3, 6, 9, etc. Bidding goes around the table clockwise until complete; at that point, the high bidder places an ownership marker on the property space. Railroad bids are in increments of 4. If the player lands on an owned property, the active player must pay rent to the owner as shown in the diagram. Railroad rents go 2-4-8-16 depending on the number owned. If a player cannot pay the rent, the property owner gets a debt token instead of payment.

• On Chance spaces, everybody draws a chance card. If sent to Jail, everybody must reduce their cash to $5 or less before leaving on the next move. When passing or landing on Go, all players collect $10.

• Build/Trade: After moving, the player may build one building or acquire one property from another player. The player must offer either properties with a total value of two more than the desired property or a property of equal value plus $20. Railroads are considered to have value 4 for trades.

Extra Auctions Phase:

If a player chose Extra Auction, after all moves, she rolls and chooses any unowned property whose value matches the die roll. If none match, she may choose any unowned property. She may make the first bid in an auction which proceeds as described above.

Chance Cards:

Chance cards offer the player a chance to make strategic moves, such as changing the die roll, shifting the track of movement, or creating some other effect. Chance cards can be played at any time unless specified.

Victory:

Scoring occurs as indicated in the diagram. The first player to reach the goal wins: For two players: 12 points; three players, 10; four players, 8.

”Europoly”

A strategic upgrade of Monopoly.

Cards

Influence cards, each card with 2 colours. Influence cards giving the players +1 die. 50 cards total.

Properties and shares

The properties are found in 6 different colours. Each colour has 12 shares:

5x “number 1” shares: may be bought on two different fields on the board, base price is 10000.

4x “number2” shares: same as above, base price is 20000.

3x “number 3” shares: only available from one field on the board, base price is 30000.

Gameplay

Preparations

Split 1 million cash amongst the players. Lay open a number of influence cards equal to the number of players. The players take turns clockwise around the table.

Player turn

The starting player selects an action, and places one of his tokens there. When the action is fulfilled the next player selects an action (and places a token). Used actions (the ones with a token) cannot be chosen again before the action table is cleared. The action table is cleared after 7 actions have been selected and fulfilled. Now all actions are available again.

Before ending the turn a player may build a house on one of his properties (max one house per share). To do this he must discard 2 influence cards with the actual colour on them. The price to build a house is 10000.

Roll and move

Influence cards with +1 die are kept in front of you (not in hand) until discarded. You must roll all dice you have available, then choose 1 die or the total of 2 dice to be your move.

Stopping on a property-field:

A:

If no one owns any shares of that type of property (colour and number) you may buy one of the shares for the base price.

B:

1: If at least one of the shares is owned by any other player you must pay the rent to the owner(s), but you pay no rent if you own at least one share of that property yourself. The rent is half the base price for each share. A house built on a property doubles the rent of one share (to equal the base price for the share).

Example: You stop on one of the two red “number 1” property fields. Player A owns 2 shares and has one house on the property, you must pay player A 5000 + 5000x2 = 15000. Player B owns 1 share and has no house there, you must pay player B 5000.

2: After paying the rent you may buy a share of that type of property (if available) for the current market price. To do this you must discard an influence card with the actual colour on it. Market price = base price + (2000 x number of shares already sold)

Example: Player A owned 2 shares (red “number 1”) and player B 1 share. You may buy one of the two remaining shares for the current market price: 10000 + (2000 x 3) = 16000.

C:

If you already own at least one share of that type of property you may buy another one (if available) for the current market price, OR you may build a house on that property (without discarding influence cards).

Stopping on a special field:

Start field: Where the players start. Players go to jail if they stop here.

Income-field: Gain 5000 cash.

“?” field: Draw one card from the top of the influence-pile.

Train field: Pay 2000 and travel to the next station.

Airport field: If the airport is unclaimed, buy it for 10000. If the airport is claimed: pay the owner 5000. You may then move your token to any property field between this and the next airport.

Jail field: Move here when put in jail. Players also go to jail if they stop here.

Auction field: Take an unclaimed share (of any type) and put it up for auction amongst all players.

Risk points and jail

You gain 1 risk point each time:

• you draw an influence card and you already has 5 or more in your hand.
• two of your dice totals 10 or more eyes.

When put in jail you must pay 10% of your current cash to the bank and you lose all extra dice. Risk points are reset. You must skip the next action in the game.

Other issues

Instead of building a third house on a property you may raise a hotel. The hotel doubles the value of 3 shares. If buying a share with a hostile takeover you also must pay the player 10000 for the house (if present). Replace his house with your own. Shares with hotels may not be bought through hostile takeover. To win the game you must build 3 hotels in one colour OR 6 hotels on any colours. The game also ends if a player is bankrupt (count cash and base price for each share to determine the winner).

Monopolis

3-6 players 1-2 Hours

Overview

Players are land developers trying to build properties in the city of Monopolis. They compete to be the wealthiest developer by ordering workers from 2 different worker camps to buy, build, tax and rent properties as the Assessor makes his way around the territory.

Components

A standard monopoly set (the following diagram is to be drawn or pasted on the board):

Setup

Each player selects one token to be their worker. One token is selected to represent the Assessor and is placed on the board on the Go space. Another is selected as the first player token. Select a first player at random and give that player the first player token. The dice represent the work camps that will be roaming around the boarf. One die is placed with 1 face up while the other is placed with the 2 face up. Camp 1 is placed on the Jail space and camp 2 is placed on the Go To Jail space. Shuffle and randomly deal a single property to each player. Each player is given an amount of money equal to $500 minus the purchase value of their property.

Game Play

During each turn players will perform the following steps:

1. Collect Income and pay off Mortgages.
2. Place worker and perform action.
3. Move Assessor.

1. Collect Income and pay off Mortgages

Each player collects $40 from the bank plus:

• +$10 for each property they own
• +$20 for each monopoly they control
• +$10 for each property they own that has houses or hotels

After collecting income, players may pay off mortgages.

2. Place worker and perform action

Starting with the first builder and moving clockwise each player will place their worker token on a worker space and perform the action described. These actions are as follows:

• Real Estate Agent 1/2: Move the appropriate worker camp up to 6 squares to a property square. If the property is unowned or mortgaged, the player can either buy the property for it's listed value or auction it.
• Renters 1/2: Move the appropriate worker camp up to 6 squares to a property square. The bank pays the owner of the property rent as per the property card.
• Construction Company 1/2: Move the appropriate worker camp up to 6 squares to a property square. The owner of the property may purchase houses and/or a hotel to place on the property and any property of the same color they own as long as they have a monopoly of that color.
• Tax Collector 1/2: Move the appropriate worker camp up to 6 squares to a property square. The owner of the property pays an amount in tax equal to the unimproved rent of the property plus $10 per house and $50 for a hotel.
• Mayor: Player takes the first builder token and then draws a card from either Chance or Community Chest following instructions (cards that move tokens are ignored).
• Assessor: Player moves the Assessor one or two squares and performs the appropriate action.

3. Move Assessor

Move the Assessor one square and perform an action based on the square in question:

• Unowned or mortgaged property: the property is auctioned.
• Owned property: the bank pays the owner rent as per the property card.
• Chance or Community Chest: each player draws a card, in player order, of the appropriate type and immediately plays it. Advance cards will move the Assessor to the appropriate square only if the Assessor has not reached the square in question already. If the Assessor has already advanced passed the square, then it stays put. In either case, the Assessor will perform the appropriate action for the space.
• Income Tax and Luxury tax affect all players.
• Jail, Free Parking, and Go to Jail do nothing.
• Go: Each player collects rent on all of their properties one final time and the game ends.

Auctions

Auctions always start with the first player. Players have the option of bidding or passing. Any amount may be bid, but must exceed all previous bids. Once a player passes they are out of the auction. The last player with a bid on the table pays the amount of their bid to the bank and receives the property.

Selling and Bankruptcy

A player may, at any time, sell back hotels and houses and/or mortgage properties to gain money. Hotels and houses are sold at half of their purchased value and hotels are replaced by 4 houses when sold. Properties cannot be mortgaged with houses or hotels on them.

If a player can not or does not wish to pay a required amount of money, they may declare bankruptcy. All of their money and properties are returned to the bank and the player is eliminated from the game.

End Game

The game ends when either the Assessor reaches the Go space or only one player is left in the game. The person with the most money at the end of the game is declared the winner.