If you land on a property, you first check if it is owned or unowned. When you use the powerup die, you activate the ability shown on that die – making sure to check your character card to make sure that you do not get a boost for the ability that you rolled. Depending on where you end your movement, something might happen. Collect any coins that on spaces that you pass through or finish your movement on. The blue die is used to move your character clockwise around the 32 space board. On a turn, the active player rolls both dice, and then uses them in either order. There are two dice, a blue regular d6 and a white powerup die which has different colored symbols on each side. There is also a small deck of Boss cards which is organized in numerical order from 1 to 8. There are two decks of cards, one deck which corresponds to the “properties” around the board. All players place their character on the Go space and a start player is chosen by highest roll. This card will tell you what the special ability is of your character. In this game, each player starts by choosing a character (Mario, Donkey Kong, Princess Peach or Yoshi in the base set) and takes the matching character card and ten coins. I’ll pretend that you don’t know anything about Monopoly and explain the game anew. This newest version of Monopoly keeps some of the familiar aspects of Monopoly but it is really an altogether different game. Of course, it’s also probably just as certain that everyone who is reading this has also not played that game by the rules provided in the box. Well, Monopoly is one of those games that probably everyone who is reading this has played at least once. Times played: 2, with review copy provided by Hasbro.

Monopoly gamer edition rules