Monopoly Variations

[Guest DiamondDust]

What Monopoly rule variations do you use when you play? I usually just use the Free Parking pot, double salary for landing on go and no auctions.

[Krazy_K]

No autions

No free parking

Three doubles in a row (let's say you roll a double 6, a double 2, and double 1) sends you to jail.

[Mick]

Free Parking Pot: Always has at least 500 Dollars in it.

$500 Dollars for landing on Go.

Every time Go is passed, add a hundred into the Free Parking Pot

All taxes and such go into the Free Parking Pot.

[Dr. Rated-R]

I like that last one, TheMick.

If only I wasn't "too old" to play boardgames anymore. I miss being a kid.

Edit - On topic... yeah. I don't think we did use variations when we played the game when I was younger. Either we didn't, or we did and I just accepted them as the legitimate game rules.

Edited June 17, 2005 by veg

[Godfatha]

Edna Krabopoly.....

Oh wait....

I just stuck to the rules. Although we put our Income Tax in the Free Parking. Made things more interesting that way.

[Guest seattlebandfan9]

I always thought the three doubles in a row go to jail thing was a standard rule. It's how I've always played.

[Krazy_K]

Rules are for fools

>_>

I should know the rules though my mum was New Zealand Monopoly Champion </brag>

[LUKIE]

The free parking pot we use, is that everytime you have to pay taxes, or pay fees through the chest or chance, it all goes into the middle. Whoever lands on Free Parking, gets the money. great rule...

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Anything from chance or community chest cards go into the middle, as do get out of jail costs...

If you land on free parking you get all the cash in the middle!

Landing on GO gets you double the £200 (therefore £400)

No auctions but you can swap and do deals with people.

All three of a set but no houses means double the rent on the card (possibly standard)

No buying first go round.

[stokeriño]

All three of a set but no houses means double the rent on the card (possibly standard)

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That is indeed standard. So is the 'no buying on first time round', unless you're going for what the instructions call a 'Short Game'.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Yeah it's usually only myself and my wife playing though, and we both like to collect different sets. She likes brown and blue, I like pink and orange and red, she likes yellow, I take green and she likes purple.

So basicall yby the time we've swapped every game is like eachother.

It's just about who buys quickest at the beginning...

[Guest DiamondDust]

Brown properites?

[thuganomic]

Three doubles in a row (let's say you roll a double 6, a double 2, and double 1) sends you to jail.

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[stokeriño]

Brown properites?

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The first ones on the board after GO. The English names are 'Old Kent Road' and 'Whitechapel Road'.

The Orange set (Bow Street, Marlborough Street, Vine Street) are mathmatically proven to be the best set to own - based on likelyhood of being landed on, house prices/rent returns ratio etc. (Y)

[thuganomic]

Brown properites?

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The first ones on the board after GO. The English names are 'Old Kent Road' and 'Whitechapel Road'.

The Orange set (Bow Street, Marlborough Street, Vine Street) are mathmatically proven to be the best set to own - based on likelyhood of being landed on, house prices/rent returns ratio etc. (Y)

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[stokeriño]

You think we want to be playing with...whatever city it is you people play it on, when we can have London?

Hell, I could buy a 'Kings College London' Monopoly set if I wanted to. If only because my old halls of residence just so happen to be the cheapest, crappiest property on the board (and rightly so).

[The Kraig]

I just use the normal rules. I thought this would be a list of the many different Monopoly games that have been released. I remember when it just use to be Monopoly and Monopoly Junior.

Now you have Monopoly Star Wars, Monopoly Rangers/Celtic (seriously), and any other franchise you could think of.

[lanky316]

A lot of the ones that people have mentioned here as house rules I thought were standard anyway. Very few new ones here unforunately

There are hundreds of variations of the game. I wonder if there are collectors who try and get hold of them all...

[JeffitudeVer2.1]

When I play with my friends, we add one more rule:

"Player is eliminated from game when he reaches $60k debt"

[stokeriño]

...What's the point continuing until people rack up $60k worth of debt? Surely by the time they've run out of money in the first place (and have no more properties to sell/mortgage) then they've irrecoverably lost anyway?

Edited June 18, 2005 by stokeriño