Monopoly Deal Card Game - FAQ and Facts

Monopoly is a game that is fun yet educational. Variations of the game has been made, from cards to board games to quick mini games. Nothing beats the original though but the other variations are sometimes as fun too! Kids before play outside. Today, it will be hard to make them do that. As adults we must encourage younger generations to play educational games versus those computer games that promote war and violence.
Monopoly Deal Hong Kong Edition update below

One of the latest variations to add to the monopoly collection is the monopoly deal. I didn't even make an effort to pay attention to it and understand the game at first. I just thought that it is just one of those board games converted to be a card game. Slowly one by one, kids start playing the game. My future sister in law taught me how to play it and I became hooked! It was fun, easy to understand and a much quicker game to play compared to the original one. I do hope that they make a version of this for iOS and Android soon.

As you learn to play the game more, I am quite sure that you'll have A LOT of questions with regards to the game play because the rules included in the package aren't as comprehensive. I took the liberty to inform you guys some of the frequently asked questions and the answers to them. Most reply are from Hasbro and research. If you want to add facts, detect any discrepancies etc, simply place it at the comment form below.

FAQ compilation for Monopoy Deal:
(This first part will deal with basic FAQs and the latter part will deal with the more complicated Monopoly deal questions.)

More Monopoly Deal Facts:
- You can rearrange your property collection, like colored and wilds to other sets, but only on your turn.
- You cannot re-arrange houses and hotels. It should stay with the set they are placed in. They can only be removed to pay for rent.
- If for example, you have two sets of Blue properties -- (One blue and one wild card x 2), you can collect rent on both groups of properties.
- You just need one house to build a hotel. Value does not stack with houses. Only max of +4M.
- You cannot have a full set composed of just wild cards. You must have at least one property with value.
- You cannot use 'Sly or Forced deal' to get a house or hotel.
- If you used 'Forced deal' and both people completes their 3rd set and therefore wins, the person who used the 'Forced deal' wins.
- If you use a 'Just say no' card to cancel the rent action played against you, everyone else playing should still pay rent.
- The order of removal if using a full set with houses and hotels to pay another player: Hotel > Houses > Properties.
- If you use a 'Just say no' card to counter a 'Rent card' + a 'Double the rent' card, you still don't pay any rent because 'Double the rent' card needs to come with a 'Rent card'.
- You can cancel a 'Just say no' card with another 'Just say no' card. 'Just say no card' doesn't count as part of the 3 cards in your turn because these cards can be played at any time.

Monopoly Deal - still unanswered/ unclear questions:
- Can we play 2 'Double the rent' cards with a 'Rent card'. This is already 3 turns so it is valid but the question is, would the other 'Double the rent' card rely on the same standard 'Rent card'? If yes, how would the computation be? If the base rent is for example 10M, would it be 30M since each double adds another 10 or would it be 40M since you double it each time?

I will be updating this rules/ facts sheet as I get them. For the meantime, enjoy!

Monopoly Deal Hong Kong Edition!
I was talking to a fellow blogger JoTan recently and she mentioned that there were new cards in the Monopoly Deal Hong Kong Edition!!! I got so excited but sadly, I don't know where to purchase locally. Luckily, my fiance is going to HK soon and I'm going to ask her to buy one for me :)

Here are the new cards. (source of the photos: http://casandraalexis.tumblr.com/)

- You Inherit(?)
- Double Sly Deal (Like using 2 Sly Deals. Neat!)
- Speeding Fine (?)
- Pay My Rent (assign someone to pay the rent asked from you)
- Go to Jail (Use it on the person and he/she will miss 1 turn)
- High rise hotels (+5m I think)
- Hong Kong properties

Excited to get a set for myself! :)

Cheftonio
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