Monopoly house rules full#

One property in a three property set: One third stated rent BUT if you only own one property of a set, you receive only a proportion of the rent. The iron is to be used by an aunt if one is playing.ġ0: You may build on any property you own. Anyone who puts the hat on the dog as a joke is fined £100. (Aren't you glad we've got this one straightened out?)ĩ: I am always the dog token. You are playing again at the end of the third.Ĩ: Winner clears up. Only way out is a double, 'get out of jail free' card or three goes.

Monopoly house rules full#

Oooooh what to do? Mortgage for half face value and retain title or realise the full value and lose it?Ħ: If you have less than £100 in your hand at the beginning of your go, you receive £100 from the bank.ħ: No-one can buy their way out of jail, nor collect rent, buy, sell or deal in property when they are incarcerated. (Simple, hey?)Ģ: Landing on 'Go' (not past it) wins the lucky contestant £400.ģ: The annoying £1 notes are thrown away - all fines are rounded up to the nearest five.ĥ: Property can be sold outright to the bank at face value but can only be rebought when someone lands on it. UNLESS the person who lands on FP has double the pot in cash - in which case he is fined the value of the pot. You may like to play them, you may not.Īre pretty much the same as standard Monopoly except for the following:ġ: All fines go into the centre and whoever lands on 'Free Parking' gets them all. There has to be way that penalises the more wealthy players, and more rules that allow anyone to start playing (you can't do diddly until you can build houses) So 'Monopoly X-treme' was developed, which could have been called 'Sociaopoly' or 'Marxist/Free Market hybrid' or something. If anyone has an elder brother/sister, you will know how rare and joyous this feeling is. Oh, how my little heart soared when that happened! There sat I, with only £16 in cash and a mortgaged 'electric company' to my name, staring across a sea of his hotels with (well hidden) glee as my brother screamed the unfairness of it all and pulled his hair out, cursing everything and everyone to hellfire. Remembering my brother's howls of anguish when poised for yet another crushing victory, he happens to pick up the 'Chance' card with the 'street repairs' bill. So, what to do? Clearly, the game must be levelled a bit.

Then, once someone starts to steam ahead, their lead becomes exponentially large, everyone else gets left behind, potential winner cackles with glee, attempts to be magnanimous and 'let people off' only so they can have a more complete and utter victory four hours later. Ruthlessness aside, winning pretty much relies on landing on the right properties, which is governed by chance. Yes, I know there are always 'house rules' but even then, the basic problem about Monopoly is skill - or the lack of it.

Well, time has not diminished her, nor age wearied the arguments, and I find myself playing Monopoly with my own children and thinking, as I always do, as to ways to improve it. That's not to say it isn't great fun - far from it - some of my best arguments have been over Monopoly, and beating my brother at it many years later just ranks up there with one of those teenage-defining moments, like being taller than one/both your parents, or meeting a girl who was impressed by: (A) wheelies on a pushbike or (B) that I could do an entire Monty Python sketch by heart. Monopoly is the most enjoyably vapid game of rampant capitalism that was ever devised. I've played Monopoly ever since my elder brother got bored beating me soundly at Risk and needed a change. Welcome to the all-new Monopoly X-treme page.