How to play Monopoly Crooked Cash
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RULES:
During setup place 3 chance cards faceup on the board. Put the decoder on the board. Give each player 2 decoder chips, green side up. Money and chance cards have hidden patterns on them that tell you if they are fake or not. Whenever a player pays the bank or another player, or is about to use a chance card, you may check one money bill that player is using or the chance card to see if it is fake, by flipping one of your green decoder chips to red. You may never check your own money or chance card.
To check money, you must announce it after they have the money in their hand but before they finish paying or making chance. Flip a decoder chip to red and pick 1 money bill the player is using. Then use the decoder to reveal the hidden pattern by lining up the M on the decoder with the M on the money. Rotate the decoder until you get a clear image.
If the pattern reveals a mr monopoly face that has a mask, then it is a fake. If the mr monopoly doesn’t have a mask, then it is real. If you reveal fake money, then announce it and you get to keep that bill and the player is unable to use it for their transaction and they must now use other money in its place. Any player, including you, may use another decoder chip to check this money too. If you find a real bill, then you announce it and nothing happens and the transaction occurs like normal. Fake money is worth its face value at the end of the game. Whenever you pay money to the bank, put that money at the bottom of the appropriate pile.
Whenever a player lands on chance, they get to pick one of the face-up chance cards on the board, then replace the empty space with a new card from the top of the chance deck. Players may keep up to 1 chance card in front of them until they are ready to use it. If they would draw a new chance card but already have one, then they may discard the one they have for a new one if they want. When you use a chance card, it goes to the bottom of the chance deck. Whenever another player uses a chance card you may flip a decoder chip to red to decode that chance card. You are not allowed to check your own chance cards. If the card is a fake, then announce it and collect $100 from the bank and the chance card is put at the bottom of the chance deck and nothing happens. If the chance card was real, then announce it and the player who drew it gets to use it.
Whenever you land on or pass go, you get to flip all your decoder chips that are red to green. Whenever you land on a train space, advance to the next unowned property and you must buy it or auction it.
There are no houses, instead you just build hotels on complete colored sets. Some chance and community chest cards will allow you to place hotels on properties that are not a complete set. The game ends when all the properties have been purchased. Each player then collects rent from the bank for each of their properties. All the players count their cash, including fake cash, and the player with the most money, real or fake, wins.
If your still confused how to play, learn the original monopoly then learn the version you've got. It has helped me so much.
i think i dont need a decoder to know what's fake and whats not
Is en passant allowed?
i've bought this one thinking it would be more interesting, but i have to admit, it's super easy to know if one bill is fake or not without the decoder, so this makes useless the whole decoder thing and just works like classic monopoly. Bills should have had better patterns
In uk it is called monopoly cash decoder
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honestly, the rules kinda suck
like, the game could be have some p neat bluffing if you could decode your own money and or if there were more concequences for getting called out for using fake money/caliing someone out when they where using real money
Wait, you keep the fake money? So basically you have to shuffle your money stack so no one will know where it is
It seems like all the decoding thing does is add a bit of novelty and slows down the game,
while having the mechanical equivalent of choosing to roll a die any time someone does something for a chance to steal their stuff.
I guess if you could keep track what money is fake, then you can easily steal it. but this is made somewhat moot by money being deposited at the bottom of the bank, not the top.
"you MUST tell the truth" this sounds so chaotic
Could you do a show to play mad gabriel card game video
For me in the UK it is called Monopoly Cash Decoder
Wouldnt buy. Sound like a fun change to the classic game, but the execution is bad. I can literally look at the pattern and my brain will complete the image without the "decoder". Even if you couldnt, you could just remember the change in the pattern as there is only one change. As each player, who can be checked could know which of their bills is fake, it makes the rules obsolete in every situation except when there is only one bill you have to use.
Easy fix: Make a UV print and include a UV lamp. Additional rule: After each transaction, the two parties have to shuffle their bill stacks.
You forget to mention when you land on property and community chest,jail too
I found an Easter egg on the board!
The money on the board (the decoration)’s patterns can actually be scanned! They reveal game token pictures!
Okay, who was the baboon that made our dollar bills? Oh, it was literally a baboon?
The least interesting part of this game: The fake cash, it doesn't seem like it adds anything to the game, except making transactions probability based.
The most interesting part of this game: How they do the counting at the end, seems much simpler to base it off of rent value.
Now I do wish that there was a way for you to try to "cheat" the game by purposefully obtaining the "fake" cash, but it doesn't seem like there's a good mechanism for doing that.
Ah, Monopoly: RNG Edition
no cause this game sounds so fun 💀
Same
This seems very random. I was hoping for an element of risk and deception, but since you don't really know if your own money is fake or not it's a crap shoot.
There is no strategy with real and fake money since you don't know what is real or fake and there is no risk if anyone incorrectly calls you out.
It's basically just a coin flip everytime you try to pay which costs you double.
I can actually kinda see the patterns without the decoder
A variant of this game that I came up with:
If a chance card is fake, you may keep it or get $100.
This has got to be the stupidest version of monopoly…. EVER
Monopoly is like the Oreos of Board Games, the original is so perfect that the variants they come up with could never lived up to the original
The rules in Monopoly Crooked Cash are the same as regular Monopoly, except for these changes.
I just like watching these
I love your explanation
This is honestly a very good idea to teach kids about the very real crime of counterfeit money and how to look out for it
Should be if you get caught passing off crooked cash you go to the jail lol that would make more sense lol
I could imagine polarized sun glare coming in through the window at certain times of the day messing this up by allowing somebody to decode a card without needing the polarizing glass.
My Variation:
If a Cash or Chance card is found to be fake, it’s gone for the rest of the game.
What the point of these fake money?
Great explanation! Short and to the point
I learned to identify which money are fake and which real without the decoder
What about the community chest spaces?
I feel like, if someone could learn which patterns result in the fake or real without having to use the decoder, they'd have a MASSIVE leg up in this game.
You flip over your decoder chip when you examine something. When do you flip it back? Or do you only get to do it twice? It seems to me that making some of the Chance cards fake is a waste, because eventually players will learn which ones are fake. At least the bills are generic. I'm not impressed with this one. It just needlessly complicates things.
Is there a video on Monopoly chance?
Thanks
And the comunity chest
Great explanation 👍
If you run out of money, you can sell things you have.
If you still can’t pay fee after sell everything, you are officially bankrupt and out from the game.
Can you call fake on 500 or is a player allowed to get change first? For eg If you only have a 500 and land on Old Kent Road for 60 and decide to buy it, someone calls fake on your 500 and it is fake, you are in effect paying 560 for the cheapest property? If that makes sense? Brutal if so
I wonder how exactly many real and fake banknotes/chance cards in this version
Also, if need more funds, sell properties from the face value, or other player for agreed upon price. If no more money but you sell all properties, then it’s bankrupt. Give all properties you had, and one chance card you had and get out of jail free card from community chest if you had one. If owe to bank, return it to the bottom of their corresponding deck and place all properties in their corresponding space next to the board. If all other players go bankrupt, then the last player remain, wins
Stoner the use creepy
No one cares about auctions anyway.
If you know you have a fake 500, can you exchange it in the bank or is that not allowed?