How to play Monopoly City

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0:00 – Objective
0:15 – Setup
0:42 – Starting
1:11 – Districts
1:39 – Building Blocks
2:35 – Railroads
3:20 – New Spaces
3:35 – Planning Permission
4:26 – Paying Rent
4:49 – Skyscraper
5:10 – Monopoly Tower
5:40 – Original Spaces
6:04 – Stadiums
6:37 – Go to Jail
7:07 – Trading
7:29 – Mortgage
8:03 – Out of Money
8:19 – End/To Win

RULES:
The object of the game is to be the richest player at the end. Layout the board and shuffle the chance deck and place it face down on the table. Place the rent dodge card next to free parking. Give each player a reminder card. Each player picks a token and places it on Go. Give each player six 5 and 1 millions. Two 500, 200, and 100 thousands. One 50,000. And five 10,000 money bills. Decide how long you will play, either until a certain number of players go bankrupt or for a certain length of time, like 1 or two hours. Turn on the trading unit. Roll dice and the player with the highest roll goes first, then play proceeds clockwise.

On your turn, roll both dice and move your token exactly that many spaces clockwise around the board, then perform actions based on where you landed. You may then build. If you roll doubles you get to roll and move again and build again. If you roll doubles 3 times in a row, then immediately go to jail and do not complete your 3rd turn.

If you land on an unowned district, you must buy it for the price listed or auction it. To auction it, press the auction button on the trading unit. Bidding starts at ten thousand and can be increased by any amount. Players do not have to bid in turn order. When the time runs out the auction ends and the player with the highest bid, pays the bank the bid price. Once you buy a district, you take the district card and put it in front of you.

To build, it must be your turn. Press the build button on the trading unit. The number that shows is the maximum number of blocks you can build this turn. Gray residential buildings and blue industrial buildings, called properties, each have 3 different block levels of buildings: 1 block, 2 blocks, and 3 blocks. The price per block can be found on your district cards. You may build on any district you own in a single turn. Buildings are placed inside the colored district area on the board. You may not have more than 8 blocks in any district. Residential buildings are cheaper but if a hazard is placed in your district then they are worthless and do not count towards the rent value until the hazard is removed. Industrial buildings cost more and are safe from hazards. You can consolidate space in a district by combining smaller buildings into larger ones of the same color.

If the trading unit shows a train instead of a number, then you can build a railroad on any district for free. Railroads are placed on the outer track of the board rather than in the center. When you land on a district that has a railroad, you may move to any other district that has a railroad. If you pass go collect 2 million from the bank. If the space with the railroad is owned by another player, you still have to pay them rent before you move. If the destination is unowned, you may buy it or auction it. If someone else owns it, you must pay them rent. If you own it, nothing happens. If you start your turn on a railroad, then you may not use it, but roll and move as normal.

If you land on an auction space, you must put any unowned district on the board up for auction. If you land on an industry tax space, pay the bank the amount shown if you own any industrial buildings. If you don’t own any, do nothing. If you land on a planning permissions space you must build a bonus building or a hazard. Both of these buildings are free and do not count towards the 8 block maximum per district. Bonus buildings are red and can be built on any unoccupied district or any district you own. Hazards are black and can be built on any unoccupied space or any opponent’s district. Only 1 hazard or 1 bonus building may occupy a district at a time. Bonus buildings prevent hazards from being built in them. Hazards block residential buildings from contributing to the rent level. To remove the rubbish hazard you must pay 1 million to the bank. The power station and sewage plant cost 1.5 million. And the prison costs 2 million....

[legendgames]

6:02 what a jerk, gleefully building a sewage plant on opponents' properties, whilst not taking the people's needs into consideration.

[Green]

The money values are unchanged. They just added 4 zeros to the end.
Edit: Fixed the number of added zeroes.
Edit 2: dammit (back to 4)

[WackoMcGoose]

>pays to get out of jail
>proceeds to roll doubles anyway

That's a mood.

[LeotheTiger]

This just got more complex. I have enough trouble playing regular Monopoly.

[legendgames]

A variant of this game that I created:
If you have a skyscraper and the Monopoly Tower, apply doubling both times for the color set with the skyscraper.
For each stadium you own, double the money from GO every time you land on it or pass it. This happens after the bonus building rule, as described one line below.
For each bonus building you own, add $1, 000, 000 to the GO money.

[erdaddy]

I played this version a ton like 10 years ago, I also remember there being a bunch of questions we had beyond the rulebook, so we had to make up our own. Unfortunately I can't remember them all, but we had at least 10, with quite a few related to the chance cards probably. But also the railroads, like if you roll doubles and land on a railroad, can you take the railroad and keep rolling from there? And then can you build on each roll, even if you roll doubles? This was a long time ago so maybe updated the instructions since then, but this always to be the case with different monopoly versions. It's like they do no testing at all before they write the instructions, give it to me and my cousins for 2 days and we'll have a list of questions that aren't explicit or are vague in the instructions.

[vincentprice]

I liked this game but I recommend house rules where it costs more to remove hazards. The hazard mechanic in the game tends to be a mute point at the price it takes to remove them.

[MrMuppetLover]

So unlike regular Monopoly, you don't need to own all districts in a color-group?

[thenerdycousins]

With the dollars now, I’m worried this place might go into a Great Depression from the inflation

[midorithefestivegardevoir]

I remember having this version... although, my playstyle was something like:

"hehe colorful buildings"

[gamelover]

I’ve been looking forward to this! I know it’s rather expensive, but please do Monopoly Millionaire. I’m desperate to know how to play it.

[superpi]

Not gonna lie, I didn't know this version existed before today. When I was younger I owned U-Build Monopoly (basically this but you can make the board funny shapes and different building mechanics), and always wondered why the property names, money values, and rules were so different from regular Monopoly. Makes me wonder why they chose to base U-Build Monopoly on City rather than normal Monopoly, but I'm glad they did because these rules are much better than the regular version.

[sunshines]

Would love a tutorial on the dice game 10, 000!!

[LittleZee]

Great how to play 😃 I’ve looked on your channel for the Back to the future card game. Any chance you can try that some day please? Thanks 😊

[jstyles-yp]

6:49 500K for getting out of jail?? What crimes did this player commit ..

[someanimedweebiamsure]

I actually played this before, and I enjoyed it.

[Zyugo]

U-build plays almost like this one, save for some alterations like building your customized board layout, water tower and rubbish are absent in U-build. Maybe someday, cover that City variant, to give us a refresher on the rules.

[ryanspruce]

I remember having this….and trying to play it once before my dad, sister, and I gave up on trying to parse the rules

[voidedbro]

I have Monopoly Syrian cities it comes with one dice and has 4 players the currencies include 50 100 200 500 1000 5000 10000 it has 4 card slots it has snake and ladders behind it and the names of the slots are, Your lucky today, Airline tickets, mortgage land, and mortgage land

[goatgamer]

this seems to be a nice version of monopoly, there aren't just seven rent prices and you can pick what type of building to build, not the final card of the coloured set (second rent level), a house (third-sixth level) or a hotel (seventh level)
also the railway stations are actually used for travelling unlike those of the original monopoly
i also like that values over 100 monopoly dollars of the original use single digits and not three digits, by using M for 100 monopoly dollars and K for less money (1k = 0.1 monopoly dollars of the og monopoly)