Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Monopoly Hotels

I have another version of Monopoly Hotels for you if you like Monopoly but need a shorter version: Monopoly Hotels!


Gameplay:
This is much different from other versions of Monopoly!

Each player starts with one gray base and 5 matching color floors. Go ahead and place one floor into your hotel base. Take your cash ($250). Shuffle all the cards and draw 5 per person. This is your hand.

On your turn, take two cards from the draw pile and add them to your hand. You may play up to three actions on your turn. You can only have 7 cards in your hand, so if you have more than that in your hand at the end of the turn, discard until you have 7. If you have zero cards, on your next turn, pick up five cards from the draw pile.

There are three types of cards. These are the cards you play into a hotel room.

A room card is played as one of your actions. You can later collect rent on it as long as there is no bill in the room.

The bill card is played in your opponent's room as one action. You can play it in an empty room but not in a room with a celebrity. They will have to use one action to pay it off.

A celebrity card is played in one of your rooms as one action. This protects it from bills.



These are your other action cards:

Demolish & Build:
Demolish the highest floor of your opponent's hotel and build another floor on your own for free.


Empty Room:
Remove and discard a whole room from your opponent's hotel. Discard any cards that were in there as well.


Thief cards are self-explanatory:



 No Deal:
Play at any time to stop your rival from playing an action card on you.


Swap Room:
Swap one of the rooms in your hotel with one of your opponent's rooms. Discard all bills and celebrities when you do this.


 Recycle:
Pick up any card from the discard pile and add it to your hand.


Pass Go cards are self-explanatory:


Pick Up cards are self-explanatory:


Rent/Build cards:
This is what you are looking for! When you play one of these cards, you can either collect rent or build floors. You can only build a floor if you have enough money, so collecting rent is really important!


Example of what your hotel may look like as you're building it:


How to Win:
Build all five floors on your hotel. You must have a room in all of them and no bills!

Verdict:
Love, love, love this version for a quick gameplay. There is some strategy involved but also some luck, which makes it tough!

Great for Learning:
Strategy, decision-making, risk-taking


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