User:Garrett/Temp

The following is copied from w:Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/June 2005.

Monoploy rule clarification
From http://boardgames.about.com/library/faqs/bl-faq-monopoly-buildevenly.htm
 * "I own all properties of one color. Can I build three houses on one property and none on another? No. In Monopoly, players must build evenly. That means that you cannot have more than one house worth of difference between any two properties of a particular color. If you own all of a three-property color set, you must build one house on every property before adding a second house to any of them. Before you can build a hotel, you must have four houses on all the properties of the color you wish to build on."


 * I was playing Monopoly last night and we had a disagreement about the interpretation of this rule and specifically the last sentence. My interpretation is that you cannot go from an undeveloped street to hotels on all of the properties in a single turn, you must spend at least one turn with four houses on all of the properties. But my opponent contended that it simply means that you must have 4 houses paid for on all of the properties before you buld a hotel and that you can do this in a single turn, jumping from an undeveloped set of properties to hotels on all without actually getting the green houses out of the box. Who is correct? Jooler 10:54, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * The official rules state:
 * A hotel may be built on a color group only after all properties in the group have four houses. A player purchases a hotel by paying the price of an additional house, and returning the four houses on that property to the bank in exchange for a hotel. If there are not enough houses in the bank for a player to build four houses on each property before building a hotel, the player may not skip directly to buying a hotel by paying the full price at one go.
 * The rules do not mention that you need to wait a whole turn, you just can't go directly from no houses to hotels, even by paying enough - you just need to first pay to get 4 houses on each property, after which you can then pay for hotels. (There is no rule that the building process cannot be split into several parts during a turn.) --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 13:49, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * I don't know about the official rules, but everyone I've ever played with interpret the rule to mean that you can go from no houses to a hotel in a single turn by paying enough. &mdash; Asbestos | Talk 14:22, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * That is typically a house rule. If playing "by the book", you can only do that if the bank has enough houses that it could be split up (8 or 12, depending on which properties we're dealing with). --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 20:14, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

http://web.archive.org/web/20010703083245/http://users.igl.net/doncook/maw.html

Monopoly Tournament Calculator.

This helpful tool adds up your total worth at any given time. Very useful for calculating 10% taxes.