A Quicker Game Speedy Monopoly
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AGES 8+ A QUICKER GAME ®BRAND If you’re familiar with MONOPOLY and 3. As soon as a second player goes want to play a quicker game: bankrupt, the game ends. The banker 1. To start, the banker shuffles the Title uses the banker unit to add together: Deed cards and deals two to each u Money left on their bank card player. Players immediately pay the u Owned sites, utilities and transports banker the price for the properties at the price printed on the board they receive. Play then continues u Any mortgaged property at half as normal. the price printed on the board 2. You only need to build up three EDITION u Houses, valued at purchase price houses on each site of a color group u before buying a hotel (instead of four). Hotels, valued at the purchase When selling hotels, the value is half price including the value of its purchase price. three houses. The richest player wins the game! SPEEDY MONOPOLY Alternatively, agree on a definite time to finish the game. Whoever is the richest player at this time wins! AIM OF THE GAME To be the only player left in the game after everyone else has gone bankrupt. CONTENTS THE SIMPSONS™ & © 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. We will be happy to hear your questions or comments about this game. Please write to: Hasbro Games, 1 gameboard, 1 banker unit, 6 Simpsons movers, 28 Title Deed cards, 16 Chance Consumer Affairs Dept., P.O. Box 200, Pawtucket, RI 02862. Tel: 888-836-7025 (toll free). J4G 1G2. cards, 16 Community Chest cards, 6 MONOPOLY bank cards, 32 houses, www.monopoly.com 12 hotels and 2 dice. The HASBRO, PARKER BROTHERS and MONOPOLY names and logos, as well as the distinctive design of the gameboard, the four corner squares, the MR. MONOPOLY name and character, and each of the distinctive elements of the board and playing pieces are trademarks of Hasbro for its property trading game and game equipment. ©1935,2008 Hasbro, Pawtucket, RI 02862. ® All Rights Reserved. TM and ® denote U.S. Trademarks. 40048 I 7674004800 TM Family 2-6 PLAYERS The Game INDEX HERE’S HOW TO PLAY Mortgage Pick up a Community Pay rent on other a property. Chest card. players’ properties. THE BANKER .............................................. 4 See pages 9/10. See page 10. See page 8. PLAYING ....................................................... 4 BANKER UNIT ...................................... 5-7 ® Go to jail. THE FINER POINTS See page 11. BUYING PROPERTY ............................... 8 Build on your AUCTIONS ................................................... 8 properties. PAYING RENT ............................................ 8 See page 9. UTILITIES ...................................................... 8 RAILROADS ................................................ 8 BUILDING HOUSES .............................. 9 BUILDING HOTELS .............................. 9 RUNNING OUT OF BUILDINGS ........................................ 9 RUNNING OUT OF MONEY ................................................. 9 SELLING PROPERTY ............................. 9 MORTGAGES ...................................9/10 BANKRUPTCY .........................................10 CHANCE AND Pick up a COMMUNITY CHEST .........................10 Chance card. FREE PARKING .....................................10 See page 10. PASSING GO TWICE IN ONE TURN .............................. 10/11 Join Homer Simpson and JAIL ...............................................................11 his family, along with other residents of Springfield, in this BATTERY INFORMATION .............11 special electronic edition of the Banker unit, deal Collect a2M as you A QUICKER GAME ............................12 classic MONOPOLY game. button and cards. pass GO. SPEEDY MONOPOLY .......................12 Race to build up your empire and See pages 5 to 7. See pages 5/10. become the richest player in town! 2 3 HERE’S HOW TO PLAY! THE BANKER BANKER UNIT Choose one player to be the banker. If there are more than five players, the banker may THE BANKER UNIT CAN ONLY FIT 5 NUMBERS ON ITS a a choose to take on this role only. The banker is in charge of: SCREEN SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IT SHOWS 100,000 AS 100K AND a1,000,000 AS a1M. BECAUSE OF THIS YOU NEED TO TITLE DEED INPUT FIGURES EXACTLY AS SHOWN ON THE TITLE DEED, DUFF GARDENS CHANCE AND COMMUNITY CHEST CARDS. K RENT b260 a1.3M a M With 1 House 3.9 a M With 2 Houses 9 a M With 3 Houses 11 M With 4 Houses a12.75 With HOTEL M alue $1.5 Mortgage V M each a Houses cost M2 each Hotels, a2 plus 4 houses If a player owns all the sites of any color group, the rent is doubled on unimproved sites in that group. X. Game: © 1935, 2009 HASBRO. TM & © 2009 FO Million The banker unit Title Deed cards Houses and Hotels Auctions Passing GO: The banker inserts your card into the unit’s PLAYING a Each choose a mover and place it on the 4. If you run out of money, mortgage or left slot and presses this button to add 2M. GO space. sell property to pay off your creditors. If you cannot raise enough money to 1. Roll both dice, the highest roller starts. Thousand Play continues clockwise. pay rent, tax or a bill, you are declared bankrupt and are out of the game. 2. On your turn, roll the dice and move To play a new game, press and hold until that number of squares clockwise 5. No player may borrow money from, Cancel/clear: you hear a beep. All the balances will be reset to the around the board. Two or more movers or lend money to, another player. starting sum of a15M. may rest on the same space at the same However, a player may choose to time. According to the space you land accept any of your property instead Decimal point/volume adjustor: to adjust the volume, on either: of money that is owed to them. remove all cards before pressing the decimal point button. u Buy the property for the asking price 6. If you roll a double, take your turn as (if it isn’t owned by another player). normal and roll again. Roll three doubles Insert the cards in the direction shown. See page 8. in one turn and you go to jail! u Get the banker to auction the 7. Continue until only one player is left in property (if you don’t want to buy the game. This player is the winner! the property for the asking price). See page 8. u Pay rent (if the property is owned by another player). See page 8. Receiving Money Paying Money u Pay taxes. Batteries u Draw a Chance or Community To insert and remove batteries, see page 11. Chest card. See page 10. Starting u Go to jail. See page 11. Press any key or insert a card. Each player’s starting balance is a15M. When 3. Once you own a color group, build a card is entered into the unit, the card number will be shown, followed by houses or hotels on those sites. that player’s current balance. 4 5 RECEIVING MONEY PAYING MONEY TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN PLAYERS Finishing The unit turns off automatically after 1 minute of inactivity. Press any key to start it up again. All the balances will still be stored in the unit. This means you can take a break from playing and continue later, with your money exactly where you left it! Banker’s Tips 1. If the unit does not beep when you insert a card, check it’s inserted the Receiving money from the banker: Paying money to the banker: Paying money to / Receiving money right way up. u u from another player for: Chance and Community Chest cards Chance and Community Chest cards 2. If you enter the wrong amount, press u u Passing GO u Buying properties, houses and hotels Rent “C” and enter the correct amount. You u Selling houses and hotels u Paying taxes u Bankruptcy can only correct a mistake if the card is u Mortgage loans. u Repaying a mortgage u Selling property. still in the unit. The banker inserts your card into the unit’s u Getting out of jail. The banker inserts the card making the 3. The maximum amount that can payment in the unit’s right hand slot and the be entered at one time is a20M, and left hand slot. Your balance will be displayed. The banker inserts your card into the unit’s card receiving the payment in the left hand the minimum amount is a10K. He will then enter the amount you are to right hand slot. He will then enter the slot. The payer’s balance is displayed. He receive. Once your balance goes up, amount you are to pay. Once your balance then enters the amount to be paid. The remove your card. goes down, remove your card. payer’s balance will go down. When the money has been transferred, the recipient’s balance will go up. Banker, remove both cards. BUILDING HOUSES SELLING PROPERTY Once you own all sites of a You may sell undeveloped sites, transports color group, you can buy and utilities to another player for a mutually THE FINER POINTS houses to put on any of those agreed price. You cannot sell a site if there spaces. The price of a house is shown on are any buildings on any of the sites in that BUYING PROPERTY PAYING RENT the Title Deed card. color group. You must first sell all the There are three types of property: If your roll ends on a site that is owned by You can buy any house (or hotel) on your buildings on those sites to the banker. another player, you must pay rent (unless turn or in between other players’ turns but Houses and hotels are sold to the banker SPRINGFIELD the site is mortgaged). The player who owns STATION SPRINGFIELD DAM you must build evenly: you cannot build a at half their original purchase price, stated HYDROELECTRIC the site must ask you for rent before the next COMPANY second house on a site until you have built on the Title Deed card.