Monopoly The Card Game

Monopoly The Card Game - All the fun (almost) of the Monopoly board game in a card game

 

Monopoly the Card Game brings all the fun of the original Monopoly board game without the big game board, the wheeling and dealing, spending time in jail, expanding your empire by buying cute little plastic houses and hotels, the whimsical metal pawns... well, almost all the fun of the original Monopoly.

Monopoly The Card Game comes with a stack of cards and a stack of money. The game will be played until the 10 cards in your hand (yup, 10) are organized into one or more color-groups. A color-group is all the property of a certain color or type and a group will either have two, three or four cards (The railroads are the only set of four). If you are already familiar with Monopoly, it is the exact same properties. The deck of 60 includes these types of cards:

• Property Cards (28) - All the property on a regular Monopoly board game is in this game (Boardwalk, Oriental Avenue, Illinois Avenue, etc.). Each property has one card, including utilities and railroads.
• House & Hotel Cards (16) - There are 14 house and 2 hotel cards. You must build your houses in order by collecting a 1st house, 2nd house, 3rd house and 4th house card. Only then can you play a hotel card if you are lucky enough to get one.
• Token Cards (6) - Each card has a picture of a metal token/pawn from the original game (shoe, top hat, cat, etc.) and these cards will increase your winnings.
• Chance Cards (2) - These are wild cards. These cards can stand in for any card you need to make your set(s), or they can make your hand worthless.
• Go Cards (4) - Each card is worth $200.
• Mr. Monopoly Cards (4) - The player who has the most at the end of the game wins $1,000.

The bills ($) come in 50, 100, 500 and 1,000. Let's play.

If you are not willing or able to hold 10 cards throughout the game, you might want to check out this card holder. I love it and use it all the time in therapy.

Object:

Play until one player has at least $10,000 and lays down his cards to go out, ending the game. Person with the most money will be the winner (it won't necessarily be the person who goes out).

Set up:

Select a banker and give them the pile of money. Shuffle the cards and deal 10 to each player, face-down. Then deal one card to each player face-up. This is their first trading card. Place the rest of the deck face-down within reach of all players.

Play:

Players take turns playing. On a play you can do one of the following:

• Draw - Take the top card from the deck and add it to your hand. End your turn by discarding one card onto your trade pile.
• Trade - You may add one or more cards to your hand by picking up any number of cards from the top of another players trade pile and giving them the exact same number of cards from the top of your trade pile. The cards in trade piles must be fanned so that everyone can see what is there. They must be picked up in order. If you want the third card down, you must also pick up the first and second cards. End your turn by discarding one or more cards onto your trade pile. You may not have more than 10 cards in your hand at the end of your turn. If someone gives you cards, you may wait until it is your turn to discard the extras.
• Lay down to end the game - When you have at least one complete color-group (set) in your hand you may lay down. Any property in your hand must be in complete sets when you lay down. Any house/hotel cards in your hand, that will be attached to a complete set, must be in order. For instance, you cannot have first house and third house, it would have to be first house and second house before third house. If you have railroads in-hand, you must have at least two to lay down.
• Scoring - Player with the highest score wins, so this is an important part. There are several steps to scoring that just make for kind of boring reading. So if you have questions about scoring, you could email me.
• Work on shuffling/dealing/fanning/picking/discarding/holding cards, manual dexterity, in-hand manipulation, planning, negotiating, following rules, adding large bills, executive functioning skills, process skills, socialization skills, play and leisure exploration and participation
   

In the box: 60 cards, stack of money

To see a list of money games, click here.

I could not find this exact game at Amazon any more, but this one looks close. It has an additional Wild card and Bank card, but the rest of it seems the same.