Magnate: the online business board game

A business board game for 2 to 6 players: buy streets, collect rent and build until everyone else goes bankrupt.

1. Roll both dice and move. Doubles let you roll again, but three doubles in a row send you to jail. Every time you pass Go you collect €200.
2. Unowned street: buy it at its price or send it to auction among everyone (you included). Each player bids higher or passes.
3. Rent: land on someone else’s property and you pay. Owning the whole colour group doubles the rent; with houses and a hotel, far more. Stations charge €25, 50, 100 or 200 depending on how many their owner has, and utilities 4 or 10 times the dice.
4. Build on complete groups without mortgages, evenly: no street can be more than one house ahead. After 4 houses comes the hotel. Selling buildings returns half.
5. Mortgage a property to get half its price (it collects no rent); lifting it costs 10% more.
6. Jail: get out by paying €50, with a “Get out of jail” card or by rolling doubles (you have 3 tries; on the third you pay).
7. Trades: on your turn you can offer another player properties, money and cards in exchange for theirs. If they accept, the swap is immediate.
8. Debts: if you can’t pay, sell buildings or mortgage. If that’s still not enough, you go bankrupt: your assets go to whoever you owed (or back to the bank).

Tips and options

• Ranked: a table of 4 with the standard rules; if people are missing, bots of your level fill the seats. In a room with friends you choose the rules and it doesn’t count for Elo.
• The last player not bankrupt wins.
• Quick game: the host can limit the rounds or the time; at the end the highest net worth wins (money, properties and buildings; mortgaged ones count half).
• If your time runs out, the server plays for you: it rolls, doesn’t buy, passes in auctions and rejects trades.
• Editions: the host picks the board (Classic, Inazuma Eleven…). Names, cards, tokens and colours change; prices, rents and rules stay the same. In the Inazuma Eleven edition, jail is the Bench.