What will you spend your money on? (Monopoly Junior)

Member Name: pink19

Product:	Monopoly Junior
Date:	15/11/08 (140 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: a much simpler and easy to understand version of the game

Disadvantages: none for me

This is a board game i have played quite a few times in work with the children. As it is meant for younger children it is a much more simple version of the original board game. Unlike the original game where you buy properties that are in London, this one uses fair ground amusements as places to buy. This makes the game a lot more appealing and more on the wavelength of a younger child.

Monopoly Junior is aimed at children aged 5-8 years. The game can be played with 2-4 players. The object of the game is to be the person with the most amount of money at the end of the game or when another player runs out of money.

To set up the game you need to choose a coloured car counter each and put them on the Go spot. Next look through the ticket booths and pick out ten of each colour to match your coloured cars. There is a pack of chance cards, these need to be shuffled and placed face down on the marked box on the board. One person is chosen to be the banker, this person then gives each player including themselves some money to play the game with. Each player gets-
Five £1 notes
Four £2 notes
Three £3 notes
One £4 note and
One £5 note.

Once you have decided who will go first, the game can start.When it is your turn you must roll the dice and then move your coloured car along the board by how many you had on the dice. Whatever square you land on, you must follow what it tells you to do.

What do you have to do on each space?

The amusements
If you land on one of these spaces and there are no ticket booths on them, you are able to buy it. Each one has its own price and this is shown on the board. The money is paid to the banker and you put a ticket booth on the amusement. If you land on an amusement that has somebody elses ticket booth on you will have to pay them money, it is up to them to remember to ask you for the money.

Go
When ever you pass go you collect £2, this is up to you to remember to ask the banker for your money.

Railways
When you land on a railway, you get another go straight away, so you need to roll the dice again and then follow whatever it says on the space you land on.

Fireworks and Watershow
If you land on either of these spaces you must pay £2. This money gets put on Uncle Pennybags Loose Change. If you land on the loose change space and there is any money on there, then this becomes your money.

Cafe
If you land on the cafe space you need do nothing until your next go.

Go to the Cafe
If you land on this space you must pay £3 to the loose change space and then move your car to the cafe space. If you have to pass go to get there yo must not collect £2.

Chance cards
Take the top cad and follow whatever it says to do, replace the card at the bottom of the pile.
Chance cards explained

Go to....or take aride
If you get one of these you must move along to the space it is showing on your card and do whatever it asks you to on that space. If you have to go past go you can collect £2.

Free ticket Booth
You do not move your car if you pick up one of these cards. You have to find the matching colours on the board to the one on the card. If one of the amusements is free you may put one of your ticket booths onto one. However if both already have ticket booths on you may remove one and place one of yours on there but this is only if they are two different coloured booths. If somebody has already put two of their booths on the spaces you cannot take one off. This rule only applies when there are two booths that are the same colour. If this happens you are allowed to take another chance card.

When there is a player that runs out of money, this means the game has finished. The winner is the player with the most money.

I prefer this version to the original one as i find it is more appealing using fairground amusements to property. Also i prefer to play a game that is straightforward and not complicated which Monopoly Junior is.

Summary: a great game which helps children understand about money