Objective
To build a property empire and bankrupt all your opponents.

Suitability

• Adults and children over the age of 8 years.
• Ideally, 3 to 6 players, although it can be played by 2 players.

Set-up

• The computer acts as bank and automatically carries out all financial transactions throughout the game.
• The computer provides each player with a starting amount of £1,500.
• The computer shuffles the CHANCE and the COMMUNITY CHEST cards at the start of the game. These cards are located in the centre of the board and are revealed as needed.

The playing board

• The playing board is displayed on the left of your screen.
• Players are shown on the board as circular coloured counters.
• Players normally travel around the board in a clockwise direction.

Dash-board

• The dash-board is to the right of the playing board.
• The table at the top of the dashboard contains status information.
• It contains:
  • A timer indicating the duration of the game sofar.
  • The name of the persons whose go it is. This is in green when it is the go of someone using your computer, red otherwise.
• Below the status information there is an area that is collapsed at the start of the game. When required this area expands and pushes the remainder of the dashboard down. Information in this area is displayed in red. This areas gives a commentry on the game and provides information such as:
  • The value on the dice for each go.
  • It tells you when a site has been purchased.
  • It reports the winner of an auction and the amount paid
  • It tells you when rent has been paid
  • It informs you when someone goes to jail or is released from jail
  • It reports when a house or hotel is purchased
  • It informs you of any mortgage transactions.
• Below the commentry area is the area for the dice shaker. The dice shaker appears on your turn. You can shake the dice by clicking on the shaker. When the dice settle the two dice are displayed.
• Below the shaker there is a control table for each player (up to six) who is using this computer:
  • There are six cells in the table (2 rows of 3).
  • Cell 1 contains the name of the player.
  • Cell 2 contains the amount of cash the player currently has. This amount is ajusted after every financial transaction.
  • Cell 3 contains a button to be pressed whenever you want to collect rent.
  • Cell 4, the first on the second row contains a buy button or Bid button. This Buy button is used to buy a site. The button is only displayed for the period that a site is available for purchase. The Bid button is used to make bids in an auction and is only displayed at the time of an auction.
  • Cell 5 contains a button which is used to purchase a house or hotel.
  • Cell 6 contains a button used to mortgage sites, houses or hotels.

Order of play

• The computer randomly decides who goes first.
• The order then reverts to the order in the game schedule with the player who occured in the schedule following the player with the highest shake going second and so on.

On your turn

• Prior to rolling the dice you have the option of mortgaging any assets or proposing a swap.
• You shake the dice. Provided you are not in jail, your counter will move forward the number of places indicated by the dice.
• If you land a site that no one owns. A for sale notice appears in the centre of the board. You will have 10 seconds to decide if you want to buy this property. You press your 'Buy' button to purchase the property, provided you have sufficient cash funds. If you do not buy the property the property is put up for auction. The bidding starts at half the properties sale price and increases in small steps. All players (except those in jail) can bid. Bidding is carried out by pressing your 'Bid' button. If there is no bid within ten seconds of the last bid the auction ends.
• If you land on a site that is owned by another player but not mortgaged, the owner has ten seconds to claim the rent due. They claim the rent by pressing the 'Collect Rent' button.
• If you land on a square labelled Chance or Community Chest, a card of the appropriate type is revealed. This may result in you receiving a cash prize, a cash penalty, a get out of jail free card, being sent to jail or in your counter being moved to another site.
• If you land on a site owned by you or a site that is currently mortgaged you can stay there rent free.
• If you land on the 'Go To Jail' square, your counter is moved directly to jail.
• If you land on a 'Tax Due' square, the bank will take the appropriate amount of tax from your account.
• If you land on the 'Just Visiting' or 'Free Parking' squares no action occurs.
• If you land on the 'Go' square, or pass it during your turn the bank pays you £200.

Rolling Doubles

• If a player rolls a double they immediately get another turn.
• If a player rolls three doubles in a row they go directly to jail. They do not act on the third roll in any other way.

Jail

• A player is sent to jail by either:
  • Landing on the 'Go To Jail' square.
  • Receiving a 'go to Jail' card through Chance or Community Chest.
  • By rolling thre doubles in a row.
• Whilst in jail a player can't:
  • Receive rent from any of their properties.
  • Bid in an auction.
  • Trade any properties.
  • Mortgage any assets.
• A player can only get out of jail on their go. They can do this by either:
  • Using a get out of jail free card
  • or, paying a fine of £50 and then have their go.
  • or. skipping a go
  • or, rolling a double. If they roll a double they can move on the double but they don't get the extra go.
  If after three failed attempts to roll a double the player must either pay the £50 fine and move the number of places indicated on the dice or elect to miss their next go.

Proposing a Trade(swop)

• On a players turn, but prior to them shaking the dice a player can propose a trade.
• A player can only make a single proposition and they do this by pressing the 'Propose Swop' button.
• In their proposition they specify: with whom they want to trade, the set of items they want from them, the items they are willing to give in exchange.
• On receiving a trade request you can eithher accept or reject the request.

Buying houses or hotels

• You can purchase a house on any turn, provided you own a complete set of sites (i.e. own all the sites of a particular colour.)
• Houses are placed on the set of sites in sequence. The first house goes on the first site in the set. All sites in the set have to have one house before a site can have two houses etc. Once all sites in the set have four houses you can start to purchase hotels. A hotel replaces the 4 houses on the site.

Raising cash through Mortgages

• On a players turn, but prior to them shaking the dice a player can mortgage an asset to raise cash.
• The bank will pay you half the purchase price for a house, hotel or site.
• You can not redeem houses or hotels once mortgaged. You would need to replace them by buying again at list price.
• If a site has property on it you must mortgage the property at the same time.
• To repurchase an asset you must pay the list price.

Exiting the game

• If a player becomes insolvent because they cannot meet any payment due (their cash assets and the combied mortgage values of their sites and properties being less than the amount they owe) they are forced to exit the game. The bank will pay the creditor the amount equal to the mortgage value of the assets.
• The exiting player's counter is removed from the board.
• Any sites released in this way will again be on sale to any player landing on the site.

Winning the game

• The last player remaining in the game is declared the winner.