First of all, Merry Christmas to all Clutchfans! Since it's holiday, I played Monopoly with some of the friends who visited my home today. I am new to this board game, or should I say it's been over a couple decades since the last time I played this board game. While playing the game, there are a couple rules really bother me: 1. How much rent should I pay if I dropped into a Public Utility owned by another player? The rule book said it should be either 4 times or 10 times the number I diced. So if I got 14 to go to the Public Utility, should I pay 14 x 4 = 56 Mil? (provided that I got 2 mil every time I passed the starting point.) If that's the case, bankruptcy might happened every time a player fell into an owned public utility. 2. Building house or hotels. Can I build house on a property if I did not own all the properties under same group of colour? What if one of the properties was owned by another player? So both of us cannot build house on our properties at all? The game was really fun if there are a number of players but we are a bit puzzled and have to established our own rules in order to proceed.
On question #1, I have no clue why that's a major problem. I don't know why you're playing with millions, it would take a lot of paper to have a million dollars monopoly money. How do you roll a 14 with 2 dice anyway? Is this house rules or some new version of monopoly? #2, you have to have all of the land of that color, which is called a monopoly, to build on it. Really really confused on question #1 though. Never seen anyone go bankrupt on utilities.
Question 1 What type of monopoly are you playing? On the original game you are given $1500 dollars to start with. also you should not be able to roll a 14 on the dice, the highest should be 12. If the person has a public works monopoly and you have to pay 10 times the amount on the dice and you roll a max 12 that only equals $120 answer to number 2 You can not build on property unless you own the full set of that property. It has to be your monopoly....
Oh stupid me. Sorry for the confusion. I just randomly pick a number to illustrate the case, never aware of 12 is the max already. So say if I rolled a 10, in your case, I should pay 10 x 4 to the owner right? (say he just own one public utility). I am playing "Monopoly - The Here & New Edition". I believe it is distributed in England since the places are in England and they use Pound as the unit. It comes with electronic banking so players are given a plastic card (the Bank Card) instead of bank notes and the card will have 15 million pounds stored as instant credit. Thanks for the clarification on question number 2.
I think I get the point for question 1 now. The original design of Monopoly use Dollar as unit so it makes sense if in your case, 12 x 10 = $120 is the max rent paid. Problem is they "raised" the property values to millions now. I can only buy Telecom (I think it equals to the Electric Co. in US version) at 1.5 million Pound! I might as well set the unit of the rental for Public Utility at 1,000 pound, so the max rental for public utility can be set at 120,000 pound.
A couple more: 1. If I am going to mortgage my property, I have to sell the house(s) back to the Bank first, right? So at what price? The rule book said it was "one-half" of the price I paid for the house, if I bought the house at 1 million, I can only sell at 500,000? 2. Assuming that I have the money to pay my mortgage and want to buy my house(s) back, how much should I pay the bank? 1 million again or just 500,000?
also to answer your here and now question on utilities from your first post..... I looked up the rules... If they have one utility you pay the amount you rolled on the dice x 4 x 10000 so if they roll a 12 then it is 12 x 4= 48 x 10000 = $480,000 if they have a monopoly then it is 12 x 10 = 120 =1,200,000 that is the max rent
Thanks pal. I did yahoo at the first place and I got a ton of so-called "Official Monopoly Rules" sites but I cannot find one that is different from what printed in the rule book I have in hand. Can you show me which on is the legitimate "Official Monopoly Rules" site you got from Google?
