Billionaire

How to play Billionaire (same-screen, 2–4 players)

Billionaire is a pass-and-play property-trading game for two to four people sharing one device. Roll the dice, travel a board of famous world capitals, buy cities, charge rent, build, scheme and trade — and try to be the last one with money. No computer opponent, no internet needed.

Choose your game length

• Quick mode — a timed game: after a set number of rounds, whoever has the highest net worth wins. Great for a short trip.
• Full mode — the classic game: play until everyone but one player has gone bankrupt. Great for a long journey.

On your turn

• Roll the dice and move that many spaces. Pass GO to collect $200. Rolling a double lets you roll again (three doubles sends you to Jail).
• Land on an unowned city, airport or company → buy it, or send it to auction where everyone can bid.
• Land on someone else’s property → pay rent. Rent rises with a full colour set and with houses and hotels.
• Chance / Chest, taxes and Jail are handled automatically.
• Use Manage to build/sell houses and hotels or to mortgage and unmortgage, and Trade to swap properties and cash with another player. Then End turn.

Key rules (all enforced)

• Houses & hotels — you must own a full colour set to build, and you must build evenly across the set. Five houses become a hotel.
• Rent — railroads (airports) charge more the more you own; utilities (companies) charge a multiple of your dice roll; full sets double the base rent; houses multiply it.
• Mortgage for quick cash (no rent while mortgaged); pay it back with interest to restore it.
• Trading — swap any mix of properties and money with another player (properties with houses must be cleared first).
• Bankruptcy — run out of money and you’re out.

About the board

The 40 spaces follow the classic property-game layout, but every property is a famous world capital — from Nairobi and Cairo at the cheap end up to Tokyo, Paris and London at the top — with airports standing in for railroads and utility companies in between. The names and cards are all original to AppFreeGame.

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