MONOPOLY: The Card Game
For 2-6 players, ages 8 and up.
Rules for 4 players appear first.
A BRIEF IDEA OF THE GAME
On each hand, you try to draw and trade cards to collect a Monopoly "color-group." Property, House and Hotel cards can
be combined to form and develop a color-group just as in the classic board game. Chance, Mr. Monopoly, GO and Token cards
are known as "bonus" cards. They can have a big effect on the final the value of your hand. Be the first player to
collect $10,000 and you’ll win the game!
THE DECK: 60 cards comprise the deck:
• Property Cards (28): There is one Property card for each property space on the MONOPOLY game board.
The color of the band behind the property's name tells you which color-group it belongs to.
This is how many cards comprise the complete color-group (2 or 3).
When you collect the complete color-group it is worth this amount.
• House & Hotel Cards (16): There are 14 House and 2 Hotel cards. Each House card indicates if it is the 1st, 2nd, 3rd
or 4th to be "built" on a complete color-group. You must build houses in order, from 1st through 4th, and you may only
play hotels on complete color-groups with all four houses already built on them.
There are 16 Bonus Cards:
• Token Cards (6): Tokens "land" on your color-group and increase your winnings.
• Chance Cards (2): Chance cards are "wild" and can represent any card you need to complete your Set. Beware, a Chance
card can also make your entire hand worthless (as you’ll see)!
• Go Cards (4): Each Go card is worth $200.
• Mr. Monopoly Cards (4): Whoever has the most at the end of each hand wins $1,000.
MONEY: There is a pad of money in the game to keep score.
THE DEAL:
• Select a Banker. The banker stacks the money by denomination ($50, $100, $500, and $1,000 bills). At the end of each
hand, the banker will pay each player his winnings.
• Select a Dealer. The dealer shuffles the deck, offers a cut, and deals 10 cards to each player. Cards are held in hand.
The dealer then deals one card FACE UP before each player. This is the first "trading" card for each player. The dealer
places the remainder of the pack FACE DOWN in the center of the table, forming the Draw Pile.
OBJECT OF THE GAME
The object is to draw and trade until the 10 cards in your hand are organized into one or more Monopoly "color-groups"
plus any number of Bonus cards.
• Property Cards: A complete Monopoly color-group includes all the Property cards of that color-group. For example,
Boardwalk and Park Place complete the dark blue color-group. (A Railroad group can be 2, 3 or all 4 Railroad cards.)
• House Cards: A Monopoly color-group (aside from Railroads and Utilities) may be enhanced by adding to it, in sequence,
a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and then a 4th House card. (Each of these cards represents one additional house on all properties in a
color-group). Note: you cannot add a House card to the Railroads or the Utilities, nor may you include a House card in a
color-group if it is out of sequence. For example, you can’t include a 3rd House card in a Monopoly color-group if you
don’t have both the 1st and 2nd House cards.
• Hotel Cards: If you have all 4 House cards on a color-group, you may add one Hotel card.
• BONUS Cards: Token cards, Chance, Go, and Mr. Monopoly cards do not need to be collected in sets. Each has a special
impact on the value of your hand.
PLAY:
You may elect to do ONE of three play options on your turn:
1. DRAW, or
2. TRADE, or
3. Go out by LAYING DOWN your hand.
Note: If you Draw or Trade you cannot LAY DOWN on the same turn.
DRAW:
Take the top card from the Draw Pile and add it to your hand, then end your turn by discarding.
TRADE:
Your trade pile is likely to both grow and shrink during the game. (Keep cards in your Trade Pile fanned so the identity
of all can be seen and it is clear which card is on top.) You may trade (exchange) one or more of the cards in your
Trade pile for a like number from any opponent’s Trade pile. IMPORTANT: If you like, you may add one card from your hand
to your trade pile BEFORE making a trade. To make a trade, take from the top of your trade pile the number of cards you
wish to trade. Give them to an opponent. He must accept them and add them to his hand (not his Trade Pile). You take the
same number of cards from the top of his Trade pile and add them to your hand (not your Trade Pile). After making a
trade, end your turn by discarding.
DISCARDING:
After you Draw or Trade, you end your turn by discarding onto your Trade pile. You may not hold more than 10 cards in your
hand when you end your turn. You must discard excess cards, of your choice, onto your Trading Pile. Fan cards in this
pile so the identity of each can be seen and it is obvious which one is topmost (the last to be discarded).
LAY DOWN:
You may lay down your hand if you…
1. have at lease one complete Monopoly color-group. If you have more than one color-group, each must be complete, and,
2. the house/hotel cards you attach to each group must be in numerical sequence. (You can’t go out if you hold house or
hotel cards that are out of sequence),
3. have any number of Bonus cards. A Chance card may be substituted for a missing Property card or a House or Hotel card
in order to complete or extend a Monopoly color-group. Chance can also represent a token. WARNING! Only the player who
lays down may use Chance in this way. Any other player caught with a Chance card in hand scores NOTHING. This is the
"chance" you take.
Note: If you began your turn with more than 10 cards in hand, because an opponent traded with you, you can discard the
excess to your Trade Pile and still lay down on the turn. Remember: you may not go out if you draw or trade on this turn.
ENDING THE HAND:
1. REWARD: The first player to lay down takes the top FIVE cards from the Draw Pile (or the remaining cards if fewer
than five remain). This player may ADD to his/her hand some or all of these cards. This player’s final hand could,
therefore, be as long as 15 cards. Any Bonus card drawn may be added, as can House or Hotel cards if in proper
sequence. A new Monopoly color-group might even be drawn. If so, the player may decide which color-group to enhance
with the house/hotel cards present (to make the hand as valuable as possible). IMPORTANT: If among the cards drawn is
one represented by a Chance card in hand, it may replace the Chance card. This Chance card can now be used elsewhere.
For example, you laid down Park Place and a Chance card to represent Boardwalk. As part of the Reward, you draw the
Boardwalk card. You may replace the Chance with Boardwalk and may now use the Chance card to represent a missing house
or hotel or a token. (You may not otherwise "move" a Chance card after the hand is laid down.)
2. COLLECT DISCARDS: Gather and remove from play all cards remaining in the draw pile, the trading piles, plus any
unusable Reward cards.
3. LAY DOWN OTHER HANDS: Each opposing player now lays down their entire hand. (Some hands may be longer than others
due to trades. That’s okay.)
SCORING:
Each player scores the value of each Monopoly color-group in hand. Each color-group has a "set" value, ranging from $50
to $400 (as printed on each property card in the group) for the color-group as a whole. Each house card adds an amount
equal to the groups’ set value. A Hotel always adds $500 (no matter the color of the group). Each TOKEN is worth the
total value of the color-group. Example: You have all three Yellow properties and a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd house cards, plus
2 Token cards. The set value of the Yellow Monopoly color-group is $300 and each house adds $300 more ($900 total for
three houses). Thus, your color-group’s worth is $1200. Further, each Token is also worth the total value of the
color-group, or $1200 more for each and you have two!. So your total winnings are $3,600, not bad!
1. The player who has the most Mr. Monopoly cards wins $1,000. But if two or more players are tied for most, no money is
won for the Mr. Monopoly cards.
2. Each GO card pays its owner $200.
3. Any player holding a Chance card other than the first player to lay down their hand scores ZERO. ("Chance" can be
good or, in this instance, very bad!)
The Banker pays all winnings from the bank. Money never passes between the players.
NEXT HAND:
The deal passes to the left. Collect the cards, deal and play a new hand.
WINNING THE GAME:
Play until, at the end of a hand, one player wins by having at least $10,000. If more than one player has $10,000,
the player with the most money wins.
RULES FOR THREE PLAYERS:
Play is the same as for 4 players, except that a fourth trading card is dealt face up to where a fourth player’s trading
card would be. Players may trade for this card by exchanging it for the top card on their own trading pile. Or, players
may trade for it, plus the top card of the Draw Pile as well, by replacing it with the top two cards on their own trading
pile. In this way, the fourth trading pile can grow.
RULES FOR TWO PLAYERS:
Play is the same as for 3 players, except that a third and fourth trading card is dealt to where a third and fourth
player’s trading card would be dealt. Players can trade with either on their turn.
RULES FOR FIVE OR SIX PLAYERS:
The play of these versions is slightly different than for 2-4 players. The entire deck will be dealt out and there will
be no draw pile.
• If six are playing, deal 9 cards to each player. If five are playing, deal 11 cards to each.
• Next, deal one card face up before each player as the first "trade" card for each.
Play:
Trading is different in 5-6 player games. Trading piles never build beyond one card and all players exchange a card at
the end of every turn.
On your turn you must exchange your trade card for another player's trade card. (It's your choice who to trade with,
so long as you choose a player who currently has a trade card on the table). If you have no trade card, place one card
down on the table from your hand and then exchange it for an opponent's trade card. Both of you keep the traded cards in
your hands. Now discard one card to your (empty) trade pile. At the conclusion of each and every player's turn, all
players must pass one card-face down-from their hand to the player on their left. After each player has passed a card,
each player picks up the card passed to them and adds it to their hand.
Going Out:
During your turn, you may lay down. You may lay down after you trade a card with another player. You must do so BEFORE
all players would normally pass one card to the player on the left. (No passing may occur on the turn when a player
goes out.)
• Reward: After going out, you may add to your hand any and all trade cards on the table that can improve its value.
Remove any unusable trade cards from play prior to scoring.
• Scoring: Each of the other players lays down his hand. Scoring now takes place, as usual, prior to a new hand
being dealt.
• Winning: $7,000 wins the game.
Monopoly the Card Game
Item #7140431037
Price $11.95
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