Monopoly

Arguably the most iconic board game of all time, Monopoly is a fast-moving property-trading game that pits friends and families against each other in the quest to ‘monopolise’ the board!

How Many Different Monopoly Boards Are There?

It’s near impossible to pin down exactly how many different Monopoly boards there are. The vast number makes it difficult to believe that they ever originated from the same game.

Some Monopoly boards twist and change the rules to invent a whole new game to play. Ms Monopoly, for example, is slated as ‘the first game where women make more than men.’ Rather than purchasing properties, players buy well-known inventions created by women and have the opportunity to establish a business headquarters to collect even more rent.

Other types of Monopoly follow the exact same rules but have a slightly different board. Monopoly: Australian Community Relief allows players to purchase iconic Australian towns and landmarks that have been hit hard recently by weather events or the pandemic.

Regardless of your interests and passions, there’s a Monopoly game board for you.

What Is On A Monopoly Board?

The answer to this question depends, of course, on the Monopoly game board you buy.

However, generally speaking, there are a few tiles and cards that will feature on the board regardless of which version you play.

Most Monopoly boards will have forty spaces that are divided into four quadrants. These quadrants are marked by speciality tiles — ‘Go’ ‘Jail’ ‘Free Parking’ and ‘Go To Jail.’

Each side of the board features 7 title deeds available for purchase. In traditional Monopoly, these title deeds include ‘roads’, which players then have the opportunity to build houses and hotels on, as well as a train station.

In other versions of Monopoly, these title deeds might include sporting teams or movie characters.

In addition, play is made more complicated by Chance and Community Chest cards or versions of these playing tokens.

How Long Does A Monopoly Game Last?

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Answers vary depending on who you ask but most experts estimate an average game of Monopoly should last around an hour. Now, if you’ve ever played the game, you probably know that it tends to run for a lot longer than that!

Long board games are good but sometimes you’ve only got a set period of time to play. How can you be sure you’ll have a winner by the end?

Strategies to ensure your Monopoly game finishes in a timely manner include following the official rules – or, even better, the ‘short game’ rules. You can also start by dealing properties to each player before the die has even been rolled and ending the game as soon as one player reaches bankruptncy.

Which Is The Best Monopoly Board?

Many Monopoly enthusiasts believe that the classic Monopoly board is the best — and they might be right!

Over the past few decades, Hasbro has also expanded the range of Monopoly games into different formats, including digital versions and card games. If you’d like to test your property-mogul skills in a whole new game, why not check out Monopoly Deal?

A quick-playing game, Monopoly Deal comes with 110 cards that will let 2 to 5 players complete a full game of Monopoly in as little as 15 minutes! Perfect for passionate Monopoly enthusiasts who just don’t have the time to invest in a full-scale Monopoly adventure.