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Rules of Medical Monopoly

Medical monopoly is similar in design to the ‘real’ game of monopoly. You move around the board in a clockwise direction: based on the roll of a dice. The object of the game is to survive the epidemic that has stuck the ancient world. To do this you must accumulate enough wealth to purchase treatment from a qualified Doctor from Salerno.

How to play  Pay the money to the bank

Each player begins with 1500 gold pieces. Cost of properties: Move around the board in a clockwise direction, purchasing  Beige background: 50 gold pieces knowledge along the way.  Green background 100 gold pieces Moves are based on the roll of a dice.  Yellow background: 150 Gold pieces To purchase a property:  Blue background: 200 Gold pieces  Land on the square  Pink background: 250 Gold pieces  State that you wish to purchase the property  Answer a question correctly One you have purchased a ‘set’ of properties you may 4 Universities 300 Gold pieces charge visitors for going to your site. You can build temples or universities on the site to make the cost of visiting higher. Blue sites: Cost of landing of a site: If the guest can answer a question correctly FREE. 0/1 University: 100 Gold pieces This applies to all properties. 2 universities: 150 Gold pieces 3 Universities: 250 Gold pieces Beige sites: 4 Universities 350 Gold pieces

0/1 University: 50 Gold Pieces 2 universities: 100 Gold pieces Pink sites: 3 Universities: 150 Gold pieces 4 Universities: 200 Gold pieces 0/1 University: 100 Gold pieces 2 universities: 200 Gold pieces 3 Universities: 300 Gold pieces Green sites: 4 Universities 400 Gold pieces

0/1 University: 50 Gold Pieces 2 universities: 100 Gold pieces Question sets 3 Universities: 150 Gold pieces 4 Universities 200 Gold pieces The questions that should be asked are in sets based on the background colour of each square. The questions and Yellow sites: answers are on each card. You should ensure that the cards are not visible to the person answering the question, then 0/1 University: 100 Gold pieces place the card at the bottom of the pile once the question 2 universities: 150 Gold pieces has been answered: if they get it wring, tell them the right 3 Universities: 250 Gold pieces answer. Free parking. Land here and, if you get the answer right, you earn the right to visit the next 3 sites free of charge or to Chance and Community Chest get out of jail free.

Landing on chance means that you pick up a card from the ‘Chance’ pile. You may find yourself lucky and be given gold Go to jail. Some people aren’t brilliant doctors. You have pieces, might have to pay a tax or come down with an been found guilty of selling useless drugs and have been ailment that needs an urgent dose of herbal remedies. Make sentenced to 3 moves in jail. You can only leave if you sure that you se your knowledge carefully here though; you answer a question correctly: chosen by the person to your might end up answering a question or two to keep out of immediate right. Whilst in Gaol you cannot collect any fees trouble. from visitors to your sites. The Winner is the player with the most money at the end of Community Chest cards relate mainly to Public health. Again the game (in the case of this being conducted within a you may be lucky and find that you’re in a well-built town classroom with a time limit) or the last player remaining with lots of facilities: which you may or may not have to pay should people become bankrupted. for. If disease has struck you could find yourself lucky; some people may well have left you something in their wills. On Question sets the other hand disease can hit anyone… and remedies cost! Questions can be grouped to match the area of medicine related to on board. Colour coding of the questions makes Passing GO: every time you pass GO you can collect an this easier: coloured card makes it a simpler task. extra 200 Gold points IF you can answer a question correctly. The question can come from any question set (of Alternatively questions can be used randomly. Students who your choosing). You must NOT have seen the card prior to have played the game in my lessons have preferred the asking for the question though. random nature of this option.

Community Chest and Chance cards I’d suggest printing these on different coloured paper to make it easier to find them.

Adding questions.

I used a mail merge to insert questions and answers into the question cards. The mail merge documents that I used will be sent on request (assuming I haven’t deleted them).

Most of the questions that I have used in the game were written by my students as part of a different revision exercise. That helped to simulate further interest in the game as the class were eager to out wit their peers.

Questions that are suitable for this game would also be suitable for the interactive quizzes hosted on schoolhistory.co.uk and activehistory.co.uk