The Official Rules of Monopoly Cards

Set Up

• Remove the quick start cards and give one to each player. Shuffle the cards well before dealing five cards to each player in a circle, one card at a time. Put the cards face down to each player. Players look at their hands after everyone has been dealt their cards. Put the rest of the cards face down in the center of the table. Pick a starting player using any method you prefer. There is no official player selection method. Play clockwise from the starting player.

Cards

• Property cards can be played face up by players once they have collected all three properties in that set. Money cards are played to create a "bank." to help pay rent. Action cards have instructions printed on each card. Some cards will let a player steal random cards from another player, while other cards demand rent or double rent from players, based on the rent value printed on the appropriate property. Players pay rent by giving money cards to the player who lays down a rent card. Players can also place houses and hotels on their property cards to increase rent cost.

Game Play

• Players start by taking two cards from the deck. After drawing, players can lay up to three cards at a time onto the table. Players don't have to lay cards. They can simply pass and move to the next player. Extra cards must be discarded to the bottom of the draw pile as players can have no more than seven.

  Action cards are acted upon immediately when laid. For example, if a player lays a "rent" card, the player who is affected must immediately pay money from his bank. The rent collecting player adds that money to her bank. Rent can also be payed by giving properties worth the value of the rent. Players only pay using pay rent using cards in front of them and not from their hands. If there are no cards in front of them, they cannot pay rent.

  Property cards can be played at any time. A full set can be broken up and used to pay rent. Houses and hotels are added to property last, after which a player ends their turn.

Winning

• The game ends when a player collects a full set of colored properties. The number of properties differ for each color set. For example, the purple set has only two properties while the orange has three. Game play ends immediately after the player lays their last property card to their last property set. Total property and money value can be calculated to rank the rest of the players.