How to play Monopoly City
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RULES:
The object of the game is to be the richest player at the end. Layout the board and shuffle the chance deck and place it face down on the table. Place the rent dodge card next to free parking. Give each player a reminder card. Each player picks a token and places it on Go. Give each player six 5 and 1 millions. Two 500, 200, and 100 thousands. One 50,000. And five 10,000 money bills. Decide how long you will play, either until a certain number of players go bankrupt or for a certain length of time, like 1 or two hours. Turn on the trading unit. Roll dice and the player with the highest roll goes first, then play proceeds clockwise.
On your turn, roll both dice and move your token exactly that many spaces clockwise around the board, then perform actions based on where you landed. You may then build. If you roll doubles you get to roll and move again and build again. If you roll doubles 3 times in a row, then immediately go to jail and do not complete your 3rd turn.
If you land on an unowned district, you must buy it for the price listed or auction it. To auction it, press the auction button on the trading unit. Bidding starts at ten thousand and can be increased by any amount. Players do not have to bid in turn order. When the time runs out the auction ends and the player with the highest bid, pays the bank the bid price. Once you buy a district, you take the district card and put it in front of you.
To build, it must be your turn. Press the build button on the trading unit. The number that shows is the maximum number of blocks you can build this turn. Gray residential buildings and blue industrial buildings, called properties, each have 3 different block levels of buildings: 1 block, 2 blocks, and 3 blocks. The price per block can be found on your district cards. You may build on any district you own in a single turn. Buildings are placed inside the colored district area on the board. You may not have more than 8 blocks in any district. Residential buildings are cheaper but if a hazard is placed in your district then they are worthless and do not count towards the rent value until the hazard is removed. Industrial buildings cost more and are safe from hazards. You can consolidate space in a district by combining smaller buildings into larger ones of the same color.
If the trading unit shows a train instead of a number, then you can build a railroad on any district for free. Railroads are placed on the outer track of the board rather than in the center. When you land on a district that has a railroad, you may move to any other district that has a railroad. If you pass go collect 2 million from the bank. If the space with the railroad is owned by another player, you still have to pay them rent before you move. If the destination is unowned, you may buy it or auction it. If someone else owns it, you must pay them rent. If you own it, nothing happens. If you start your turn on a railroad, then you may not use it, but roll and move as normal.
If you land on an auction space, you must put any unowned district on the board up for auction. If you land on an industry tax space, pay the bank the amount shown if you own any industrial buildings. If you don’t own any, do nothing. If you land on a planning permissions space you must build a bonus building or a hazard. Both of these buildings are free and do not count towards the 8 block maximum per district. Bonus buildings are red and can be built on any unoccupied district or any district you own. Hazards are black and can be built on any unoccupied space or any opponent’s district. Only 1 hazard or 1 bonus building may occupy a district at a time. Bonus buildings prevent hazards from being built in them. Hazards block residential buildings from contributing to the rent level. To remove the rubbish hazard you must pay 1 million to the bank. The power station and sewage plant cost 1.5 million. And the prison costs 2 million….
REMINDER:don’t 2x this video
Hearing him say district do many times is reminding me of hunger games
why so many bildings
Do monopoly empire.
>pays to get out of jail
>proceeds to roll doubles anyway
That's a mood.
The most unrealistic part of this board game is when the player pays for their stadium with their own money instead of simply lobbying the government to do it on the taxpayer dime.
I remember having this….and trying to play it once before my dad, sister, and I gave up on trying to parse the rules
It’s 37,700,000$
Monopoly just got advanced
A variant of this game that I created:
If you have a skyscraper and the Monopoly Tower, apply doubling both times for the color set with the skyscraper.
For each stadium you own, double the money from GO every time you land on it or pass it. This happens after the bonus building rule, as described one line below.
For each bonus building you own, add $1,000,000 to the GO money.
im watching this and thinking "hm, imagine if someone makes monopoly city + monopoly builders"
6:50 I like how he paid to get out of jail then just proceeds to roll a double anyway
The money here is even more inflated than monopoly millionaire!
So if you land on a railroad that’s on an owned property and there’s only one other railroad is on another owned property before the GO space and you barely have any mone you are just doomed
Can you sell properties or are they permanent outside of combining or splitting them? I would guess the latter since otherwise you could tear down residences in a hazard district and replace them with industry.
Hug me
6:49 500K for getting out of jail?? What crimes did this player commit ..
i have a question about hazard buildings…
If another player builds a hazard in one of
my districts, all of the residential buildings
in that district become worthless and do
not count towards the rent value of that
district.
Do I receive rent for the real state (the land rent)?
Not gonna lie, I didn't know this version existed before today. When I was younger I owned U-Build Monopoly (basically this but you can make the board funny shapes and different building mechanics), and always wondered why the property names, money values, and rules were so different from regular Monopoly. Makes me wonder why they chose to base U-Build Monopoly on City rather than normal Monopoly, but I'm glad they did because these rules are much better than the regular version.
I liked this game but I recommend house rules where it costs more to remove hazards. The hazard mechanic in the game tends to be a mute point at the price it takes to remove them.
This version is doing too much unfortunately
I remember messing around on this so much as a kid…
Question: Is the building block limit on the trading unit meant to limit the amount of blocks built per turn per district? Example: if you own 3 properties you may build 3 blocks in each of properties. OR it means a general limit so that in the example mentioned you may only build 3 blocks in total, say, one block in each of the 3 properties?
I've been playing this version for a couple of years now and that question always comes up 🤣
Easily the best version of monopoly imo.
I have Monopoly Syrian cities it comes with one dice and has 4 players the currencies include 50 100 200 500 1000 5000 10000 it has 4 card slots it has snake and ladders behind it and the names of the slots are ,Your lucky today,Airline tickets,mortgage land,and mortgage land
If this was a country,it might as well be the new Venezuela
Looks interesting but way too complicated
I have this 🙂
Monopoly city is by far the best version of monopoly.
Normal monopoly
But
Ibflation and with rent dodge and building making tycoon
Those railroads. Can’t wait for someone to combo an orange with a blue property. Bankruptcy at its finest.
I have a question about the railroads:
What if the railroad that you landed on is the only railroad on the board?
this seems to be a nice version of monopoly, there aren't just seven rent prices and you can pick what type of building to build, not the final card of the coloured set (second rent level), a house (third-sixth level) or a hotel (seventh level)
also the railway stations are actually used for travelling unlike those of the original monopoly
i also like that values over 100 monopoly dollars of the original use single digits and not three digits, by using M for 100 monopoly dollars and K for less money (1k = 0.1 monopoly dollars of the og monopoly)
If you are mortgaged and unmortgege you have to pay the total rent that you owe or the total that your mortageged districts that take money for rent or both
How much is the price?????
U-build plays almost like this one, save for some alterations like building your customized board layout, water tower and rubbish are absent in U-build. Maybe someday, cover that City variant, to give us a refresher on the rules.
when your turn does the player can roll the dice , go forward also can build houses ?
This is version of Monopoly represents the end of the middle class family, and it is all about conglomerates. Also inflation seems to be at an all time high.
Wooooow talk about bad luck on getting out of jail
Pays the money to get out, then rolls doubles (which means he would have gotten out for free)
Community chest:”can i build with my brother?”
Mr.monopoly:”no! You will get hurt! So I will not let you come!”
Community chest”that’s not fair! I will look out! You are meanie, mr monopoly!”
Who else just watches these videos because they are randomly entertaining
Dang, I originally thought that industrial buildings prevented hazard buildings from being played on a plot, but it turns out they just cancel residential bonuses
Here’s another rule: if the player lands on A space that has a prison on it, they go straight to jail
If there's a *COLLOSSAL EXPLOSION*, then all buildings are worthless and any of the districts were removed from the whole game. This district cannot be bought since it's destroyed.
Can you trade the rent dodge card?
Something i don't like about monopoly is the banknotes design, which is too simple. I am a fan of banknote arts, and for me banknotes from the 90s was the best design ever. Going into the 2000s and above, banknote designs became too modern and looks boring. I would be good if monopoly could design its banknotes to be more classic and prettier
I want this version so badly
Interesting, the U-Build version of the game is much closer to this than standard monopoly
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Sounds very fun，Unfortunately, it has been discontinued and cannot be purchased anymore