How to play

Turns, buying, building, rent, the Frozen Wallet, mortgages, bankruptcy and how a game is won.

The goal

Be the last player who isn't bankrupt. If the round limit comes first (30 rounds unless the table says otherwise), the richest player wins: cash, plus the price of every lot they own, plus what they spent on buildings.

Setup

• 2 to 4 players. At practice and free tables, bots take the empty seats.
• Everyone starts on GENESIS with $1,500.
• Passing or landing on GENESIS pays $200.

A turn

1. Roll. Press Roll dice. Your piece moves clockwise by the total of two dice.
2. Land. What happens depends on the tile:
   • A lot, bridge or node nobody owns: press Buy to buy it at its price, or Skip.
   • One that someone else owns: you pay them rent.
   • Alpha Leak or Airdrop: you draw a card (all cards).
   • Gas Fee ($100) or MEV Tax ($150): you pay into the Free Mint pool.
   • Free Mint: you collect everything in the pool.
   • Liquidated!: your wallet is frozen and your piece goes to the Frozen Wallet.
3. Doubles roll again. Roll doubles three times in a row and your wallet is frozen instead.
4. Press End turn.

At online tables each decision has a 25-second timer. If it runs out, the game plays it safe for you: it rolls, skips buying, or ends your turn. After a missed timer your next moves are played after 3 seconds, until you act again.

Building

You build on your own lot only while your piece is standing on it, one level per visit:

• never on the visit you buy it;
• each next level needs another lap: pass GENESIS and land on that lot again;
• three houses, then a tower;
• each level costs half of the lot's price.

A lot grows by at most one level per lap, so rents climb steeply to make building worth it.

Rent

• Own both lots of a district (same colour) and the rent doubles at every level.
• Bridges charge $30, doubling for each bridge the owner has: $30, $60, $120, $240.
• Nodes charge the dice total × 5, or × 12 if the owner has both nodes.
• A mortgaged lot charges nothing.

Every price and rent is listed in The board and cards.

The Frozen Wallet

Your wallet is frozen when you land on Liquidated!, roll three doubles in a row, or draw the card that says so. While frozen you can't move. On each turn you can:

• roll for doubles: doubles free you and you move;
• use an Unfreeze Key card, if you have one;
• pay $50.

After three tries without doubles you pay $50 and move. Landing on the Frozen Wallet tile with a normal roll is just a visit.

Mortgages

Short on cash? Tap one of your lots without buildings and mortgage it for 50% of its price. It earns no rent while mortgaged. Buy it back on your turn for 55%: the loan plus 10%.

When you can't pay

If you owe more than your cash, the game raises it for you: it sells your buildings back to the bank for half of what they cost, then mortgages your lots. If that still isn't enough, you're bankrupt. Whoever you owed gets what you could pay, your lots go back to the bank with no owner, and you're out of the game.

Leaving

Leave table gives up the game, and you count as bankrupt. At an online table, losing your connection doesn't give up your seat: the timer plays safe moves until you're back.