Monopoly Empire Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Components
• Set It Up
• What's New
• How to Win
• How to Play
  • On Your Turn
• The Board Spaces
  • GO Space
  • Brand Spaces
  • Color Set = Bonus Office!
  • Utilities (Electric Company or Water Works)
  • Rival Tower Tax
  • Tower Tax
  • Empire
  • Chance
  • Just Visiting
  • Free Parking
  • Go to Jail
  • How Do I Get Out of Jail?
• More Info
  • Auctions
  • Money
• The Brands

Components

• Gameboard
• 4 Towers
• 6 Brand Tokens
• 30 Billboard Tiles
• 6 Office Tiles
• 14 Chance Cards
• 14 Empire Cards (including 2 Super Empire Cards)
• Money Pack
• 2 Dice

Set It Up

1. Shuffle the Chance cards. Put them face down on the board.
2. Shuffle the Empire cards. Put them face down on the board.
3. Put the 22 billboard tiles on the brand spaces they match around the board.
4. Put the 4 Electric Company and 4 Water Works billboards on their matching spaces.
5. Put the 6 Office tiles and the 2 dice next to the board.
6. Give each player 1 Tower to place in a corner of the board, and 1 Token to place on GO.
7. Choose someone to be Banker. They're in charge of:
   • The Bank's money
   • Auctions (see More Info: Auctions)
   • Paying players when they pass GO
   • Collecting fines and taxes

Each player is dealt 2 Empire cards and secretly looks at them.

What's New

If you know how to play the classic MONOPOLY game, then this is all you need to know.

• Tower: To win, you must fill your tower first! Buy billboards to fill your tower. The more you buy, the more cash you collect. Fill your tower first to win!
• Collect your tower value when you pass GO! When you pass GO, collect the current value of your tower. The more billboards you stack, the more cash you collect!
• Brands: All your favorite brands are up for grabs! When you land on a brand space, buy it and slide its billboard into your tower. Now you own that brand!
• Empire cards: There are Empire cards! Empire cards are packed with super-powered actions. You get 2 at the start and collect more when you land on Empire spaces. Watch out for the 2 super Empire cards. HANDS OFF! protects your tower. YOU'RE FIRED! returns brands to the board.

How to Win

Fill your tower first to win! If you're the first player to stack your billboards to the top of your tower, you win!

Fill your tower with billboards by buying brands. Tip! Buy an office tile for $500K to hit the top sooner!

How to Play

Youngest player starts, then play continues clockwise.

On Your Turn

1. Roll both dice.
   • Rolled the sneaky swapper? Then do a sneaky swap! Switch the topmost billboard in one tower with the topmost billboard in any other tower (including your own). If you do this, don't move this turn.
   • If you don't want to do a sneaky swap, ignore the swapper die and use the number on the other die to move as normal.
2. Move your token clockwise around the board that number of spaces.
3. Where did you land? Follow the instructions for Board Spaces (below).
4. Rolled a double? Roll and move again. If you roll three doubles in a row, go directly to Jail.
5. That's it! Your turn's over. The player to your left goes next.

Start playing! That's all you need to know, so get going! Look up the spaces when you land on them.

The Board Spaces

GO Space

When you land on or pass GO, collect your current tower value from the Bank. No billboards? Collect $50K.

Example: If your billboards are at this level, collect $600K.

Brand Spaces

Unowned (with billboard). If no one owns the brand, either buy it or auction it.

• Want to buy it? Pay the price on the space and slot the billboard in your tower.
• Don't want to buy it? Then the Banker must auction it. Bidding starts at $50K. Any player can bid (see More Info: Auctions).

Owned (no billboard). Pay the owner the current value of their tower.

Example: If the owner's billboards are at this level, pay them $600K.

Color Set = Bonus Office!

It pays to collect a color set of companies. When you get all the billboards for a color set in your tower (they don't have to be next to each other), take a bonus office tile for free and slide it into your tower.

Example: You get all three orange brands and get a bonus office tile for free.

You can also buy one office on your turn from the Bank for $500K.

Utilities (Electric Company or Water Works)

• Either buy a billboard and pay the Bank $150K.
• Or the Banker must auction a billboard (just like brands).
• Don't pay rent to players who own Utilities.
• If there are no billboards left, do nothing.

Rival Tower Tax

Return another player's topmost billboard to the board.

Tower Tax

Return your topmost billboard to the board.

Empire

Take the top Empire card and do what it says. Once you've played it, return the card to the bottom of the pile.

Chance

• Take the top Chance card from the pile.
• Do what it says immediately and return the card to the bottom of the pile.
• If it is a Get Out of Jail Free card, keep it until you need it or sell it to another player.

Just Visiting

If you land here, do nothing. Pop your token on the Just Visiting section.

Free Parking

Either take a trip (by paying the Bank $100K and moving to any space except Free Parking again), or do nothing.

• If you pass GO, collect the current value of your tower.
• Once you've landed on your new space, continue your turn as usual.

Go to Jail

• Go directly to Jail.
• While you're in Jail, do not collect rent.

How Do I Get Out of Jail?

You have 3 options:

1. Pay $100K at the start of your next turn, then roll and move as normal.
2. Use a Get Out of Jail Free card at the start of your next turn if you have one (or buy one from another player). Put the card at the bottom of the pile, then roll and move.
3. Roll a double on your next turn. If you do, you're free! Use the roll to move. You can use up to 3 turns to try for a double. If you don't roll a double by your third turn in Jail, pay $50K and use your last roll to move.

More Info

Auctions

If a player lands on an unowned brand space and doesn't want to buy it for the price listed on the space, the Banker must auction it.

How to auction:

1. The Banker starts the auction by offering the brand for $50K.
2. Then anyone can increase the current bid by $50K (even the Banker and the player who originally landed on the space).
3. The highest bidder buys the brand and immediately slides the billboard into their tower.

What if no one wants it? That's fine. Leave it on the space.

Money

What if I run out of money?

• If you can't pay the Bank, keep any cash you do have and return your topmost billboard to the board.
• If you can't pay another player, keep any cash you do have and give the player you owe the topmost billboard in your tower.
• If you don't have any billboards, do nothing.

The Brands

The 22 brands whose billboards are used in the game are:

1. Nerf
2. Transformers
3. Razor
4. Polaroid
5. Virgin
6. Wilson
7. Puma
8. Levi's
9. Candy Crush
10. Food Network
11. Billboard
12. Guitar Hero
13. Nickelodeon
14. Yahoo
15. Caterpillar
16. Ford
17. eBay
18. Skype
19. Beats by Dr. Dre
20. Heinz
21. Universal Parks & Resorts
22. Xbox

Each brand's promotional description and the trademark and copyright credits printed on the guide's brand pages are not reproduced here.