Oddly enough, auctions are one of the most overlooked aspects of Monopoly

Oddly enough, auctions are one of the most overlooked aspects of Monopoly

Buy property

If you end up on a property that no other player owns, you can choose to buy it by paying the price listed on the address. You then receive the title card from the banker when you buy. If, however, you choose not to buy the address, the others get the chance to do so through auction.

Auctions

Oddly enough, auctions are one of the most overlooked aspects of Monopoly. Auctions take place when any of the following occurs when:

• A player chooses not to buy a property when they land on it
• Several players want to buy houses, hotels and the bank lacks the desired number
• A player goes bankrupt. Then the bank immediately authorizes all properties of the bankrupt employee to the highest bidder (except the house/hotel).
  

Pay in full

If a player ends up on another player’s plot, he must pay according to the amount written on the back of the right-of-way card. The more houses/hotels, the more it will cost.

Build houses and hotels

If a player owns all the addresses in a color group, he can start building his property by buying houses and later hotels. On the back of the title deeds, you can see how much each house costs for each address. You must always “build evenly” and this means that you cannot buy 2 houses on one property before you have built houses on all other properties in the same color group.

Before you can buy a hotel, there must be four houses on each property. It is only permitted to have one hotel per plot.

Prison Rules

A player goes to jail…
(1) … if he lands on a square marked: “Go to Jail”
(2) … if he draws a card marked “Go to Jail”
(3) … if he rolls “equal” on three tries
A player who ends up in jail may not collect pay (when passing goes), regardless of where your piece is, you must go straight to jail. Your turn ends when you are sent to prison.

Visiting the Prison

If you didn’t end up “in prison” in any of the three ways above but happened to land on this square, you just move on to your piece in the usual way.
You can still collect rent on the property that you are “visiting”.

A player gets out of jail by:
(1) rolling a “tie” on any of the first three tricks after being in jail,
If the player rolls a “tie” he may immediately advance the number of steps shown by the die.
(2) have a “get out of jail” card
(3) buy a “get out of jail” card from another player. The price is determined between the seller and the buyer.
(4) pay a fine of SEK 1,000 before he tries to hit “equal”.

If the player fails to roll “equal” on the third try, he must pay a fine and then roll the dice in the normal way. You can only be in prison for three rounds.

The player who is in prison can both buy and sell property, as well as collect rent.

Free Parking

Nothing happens if you end up here according to the official rules. However, many people play with all taxes and payments made to the banker (not to other players) placed in the middle of the table and the player who then ends up on Free Parking gets everything.