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xlMonopoly
Board
Official Rules
Instructions
Create New Board
FAQ
An Excel game by charlie jan
3) Depending on the property landed upon, you may be asked if you want to buy the Property, or
player 2, take a card, pay a fine or go to Jail. If you have the cash available, Fines and Rent will b
automatically from your cash total in the bottom LH corner.
4) When ready, click the Roll Dice button again to roll the dice for player 2. Player 2's counter (lim
automatically. Upon landing on his destination, Player 2 will also make purchasing decisions or pa
Player 2 will also consider house buying and mortgaging decisions.
5) Upon completion of Player 2's turn, control will return to you. You can again make any house,
decisions. When ready, click the play button to roll the dice for your move.
Mortgaging Property
When Player 1 is active, you have the opportunity to mortgage any undeveloped property you ow
toolbar to display the mortgaging form
Select you property you wish to Mortgage from the drop-down box. The Mortgage value of that pr
Click OK to complete the mortgage.
If you have any properties that have been mortgaged, you can choose to Unmortgage them. Click
tab, and select the property from the dropdown box. The cost of mortgaging is calculated at 110%
of the property.
Buying Houses
Once you own a complete colour group, you can begin to develop properties in the group. Click B
to display the Buy/Sell House form
Select the property you want to build on from the dropdown list. The cost of building the house is
build a house if the number of houses on that property is greater than the minimum number of ho
on that group. You cannot buy a house if the cost exceeds your cash level; you will need to raise
or selling first.
Click Buy to complete the house purchase. (If only it were that simple in real life!)
Occasionally, after a house purchase, some properties that were unimprovable when the form wa
improveable. Click done and then Buy House again to re-load the form.
Deals
When Player 1 and Player 2 both own property, you can offer to swap a property you own for one
can also either ask for or offer cash to even up the value of the deal. Click Offer Deal to show the
Select the Player 2 property you want (St Charles Place in the example) from the top dropdown, a
are offering to swap for it in the bottom dropdown.
If the property you are bidding for is more valuable than the property you are offering, then you ar
succeed if you offer cash in addition. Enter the cash amount that you are offering to pay into the B
if you are offering to swap a property of higher value, then you can ask for cash from player 2 to e
Note that if a value is entered in one of the cash boxes, it must be cleared before you can enter a
Create New Board
It's now possible to create new boards based around any place names or otherwise that you like.
board' on the menu and get to this sheet:
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6) Return to the Board via the hyperlink and play the game
Note. This feature has not been exhaustively test and it is likely that supplying names with specia
( will cause an error. Note for bored hackers: You've tried SQL injection - now try formula injection
formulae as names will give some strange results.
Notes
The card packs are shuffled randomly at the beginning of the game. Get out of jail free cards, if tu
in the pack. However, once used, they return to their original pack position and not to the bottom.
coding than I felt the difference was worth
Income tax, as stated in the rules, can be either £200 or 10% of total assets. To simplify this, the
sums will automatically be deducted. Furthermore, total assets are calculated as the sale or mortg
money,purchasing
When houses and property,
property, thenot face is
player value as stated
allowed to payinmore
the rules.
for the property than their current ca
pay more for the property, then the Debt decision screen appears, and the player sells assets (no
being purchased) to pay their debt. The computer opponent also has the ability to do this.
The computer opponent has no more information than the player. It does not anticipate the dice to
community chest card values.
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xlMonopoly FAQ
Board
Official Rules Q: How long did the game take to build?
Instructions
A: The first version took about 4 weeks of coding. I didn't have a job at the time, so I was able to s
Create New Board After that, I then got a job and the second version was put on significant hold. In all, I'd guess I've
FAQ hours designing, testing and playing the game
Q: I've spotted a mistake / The game's given me an error message. What can I do?
A: Let me know about it. If you can email a description of the problem, and the error message if th
I can fix it of rthe next version. If you're a VBA programmer and want to fix it yourself, drop me a l
password. My email address is charles_jans@yahoo.co.uk
A: No idea at all. The code never changes those cells, and there's no conditional formatting on an
of a mystery why they sometimes lose their color.
A: I was sitting in a backpackers hostel in Seattle, wondering what to do. I remembered how I love
when I was younger, thinking that I'd like a game right now. This led me on to thinking that the ga
excel, and I began to think how it might be done. The first version was sketched out in my notepa
has stayed roughly the same.
A: Roughly, there's a flow of events leading from the click of the roll dice button that is roughly su
flowchart below. Decisions such as Player 2 buying houses have their own separate and fairly de
majority of the difficult calculation (such as working out rent) is done by worksheet formula. VBA t
and user input.
Roll Dice
Auto
Auto? HB Roll dice Is double? 3rd time?
Dec
Check
In Jail Show Form
Card
Change
Pay fine
Money
Play
card
Go to
Roll Double? 3 in a row?
Jail
Auto
Auto? HB Roll dice Is double? 3rd time?
Dec
Check
In Jail Show Form
Card
Change
Pay fine
Money
Play
card
Go to
Roll Double? 3 in a row?
Jail
Move
Available? Op owns? Tax?
Counter
Buy?
Calc D
Auction Calc tax
Rent
Get P1
Price
Get P2
Price Sell Chang
Mort
Hous e
Prop
e Money
Buy
P1>P2?
Property
House/ Show
In debt?
Prop Form
Opp
Buys
disappear?
3rd time?
Pay fine
3rd time?
Pay fine
Calc Display
Calc tax
Rent Card
Move?
Chang
e Cash? Jail
Money
Show Allocate
In debt? Card
Form
Finish
xlMonopoly
Create Your Own Board
Board
Official Rules Field Insert New Value
Instructions
Create New Board Board name Football teams
FAQ Currency Symbol £
GO Go
Torquay United Torquay United
Community Chest Community Chest
Forest Green Forest Green
Income Tax Income Tax
King's Cross Station King's Cross Station
Hereford United Hereford United
Chance Chance
Hull City Hull City
Newcastle United Newcastle United
Just Visiting Vistors center
Sunderland AFC Sunderland AFC
Electric Company 7-Eleven
Oldham Athletic Oldham Athletic
West Brom West Brom
Marylebone Station Gare du Nord
West Ham West Ham
Community Chest Community Chest
Stoke City Stoke City
Aston Villa Aston Villa
Free Parking Free Parking
Scunthorpe United Scunthorpe United
Chance Chance
Tranmere Rovers Tranmere Rovers
Burnley Fc Burnley Fc
Liverpool Street Station Liverpool Street Station
Everton Fc Everton Fc
Liverpool FC Liverpool FC
Water Works Water Works
Arsenal Arsenal
Go To Jail Go To Jail
Leeds United Leeds United
Man Utd Manchester United
Community Chest Community Chest
Chelsea Fc Chelsea
Fenchurch Street Station Fenchurch Street Station
Chance Chance
Hartlepool United Hartlepool United
Fa Head Quarters Fa Head Quarters
Man City Manchester City
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Community Chest
Forest Green Copy Names
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