Open the box. This is what you get.
A board. Two dice. Twelve tokens. There are 32 houses. There are 12 hotels. A deck of opportunities and a community chest. title deed. charge.
Sounds simple, right? The standard board holds forty squares. Technically speaking, the prison facilities are separate, so there are 41 landing spots.
You can buy twenty-eight of those.
Twenty-two streets. Most of them are named after their locations in Atlantic City. 4 railways. Two public utilities: the electricity company and the water company.
Then there are the traps.
Three community chest plazas. Three Chance squares. These force you to draw cards. The cards are a gamble. Good or bad luck.
You can draw a “get out of jail free” card. That’s good.
Or you can draw a picture that says, “Go straight to jail. Don’t skip GO. Don’t charge me $200.” It hurts.
Cards that lose money are even worse.
The “street maintenance fee” is $40 per property and $115 per hotel. The “general maintenance fee” is $25 per apartment and $100 per hotel. These have dealt a huge blow to players who have invested heavily in real estate development.
The luxury tax is $100. Income tax is charged on $200 or 10% of net worth.
The corners are different.
GO is the starting point. You will be charged $200 each time you check in or skip. It’s your salary.
Free parking does nothing. Not really.
You will only be redirected there if you log in “Go to Jail”. Passing it is safe.
Jail has two parts. “Just Visiting” is for when you roll and stop there. “In Jail” is for when you are sent there.
Speaking of rules, there are official guidelines. they are useful.
Especially when you and your sister are arguing about the penalty for rolling three doubles in a row.
If you think regular games are your only option, you are wrong.
Hasbro has licensed branded versions for everything.
TV shows. The Simpsons. Stranger Things.
Movies. Spider-Man. Black Panther.
Sports. National Football League. NASCAR. Major League Baseball.
Come to think of it, Hasbro could have used that to make Monopoly.
