NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     monop - Monopoly game

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     monop [file]

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     monop is reminiscent of the Parker Brother's game  Monopoly,
and monitors
     a  game  between 1 to 9 users.  It is assumed that the rules
of Monopoly
     are known.  The game follows the standard  rules,  with  the
exception that,
     if  a  property  goes  up for auction and there are only two
solvent players,
     no auction is held and the property remains unowned.

     The game, in effect, lends the player money, so it is possible to buy
     something  which  you  cannot afford.  However, as soon as a
person goes into
 debt, he must ``fix the  problem'',  i.e.,  make  himself
solvent, before
     play  can  continue.   If this is not possible, the player's
property reverts
 to his debtee, either a player or the bank.  A  player
can resign at
     any  time to any person or the bank, which puts the property
back on the
     board, unowned.

     Any time that the response to a question is a string,  e.g.,
a name, place
     or  person, you can type `?' to get a list of valid answers.
It is not
     possible to input a negative number, nor is it  ever  necessary.

     A Summary of Commands:

     quit  quit game.  It asks you if you're sure.

     print
           print  current  board.  The columns have the following
meanings (column
 headings are the same for the where, own holdings,
and holdings
           commands):

           Name     The  first  ten characters of the name of the
square.
           Own     The number of the owner of the property.
           Price   The cost of the property (if any).
           Mg      This field has a `*' in it if the property  is
mortgaged.
           #       If the property is a Utility or Railroad, this
is the number
 of such owned by the owner.  If the  property is land,
                   this is the number of houses on it.
           Rent     Current  rent  on the property.  If it is not
owned, there is
                   no rent.

     where
           tell where players are.  A `*' indicates  the  current
player.

     own holdings
           list  your own holdings, i.e., money, get-out-of-jailfree cards,
           and property.

     holdings
           show holdings list: look  at  anyone's  holdings.   It
will ask you
           whose holdings you wish to look at.  When you are finished, type
           `done'.

     mortgage
           mortgage property: sets  up  a  list  of  mortgageable
property, and
           asks which you wish to mortgage.

     unmortgage
           unmortgage property: unmortgage mortgaged property.

     buy    buy houses: sets up a list of monopolies on which you
can buy houses.
  If there is more than one, it asks you which  you
want to buy
           for.   It  then  asks  you  how many for each piece of
property, giving
           the current amount in parentheses after  the  property
name.  If you
           build  in  an  unbalanced  manner (a disparity of more
than one house
           within the same monopoly), it asks you to re-input.

     sell  sell houses: sets up a list of monopolies  from  which
you can sell
           houses.  It operates in an analogous manner to buy.

     card   use  a  get-out-of-jail-free card to get out of jail.
If you're not
           in jail, or you don't have one, it tells you so.

     pay   pay $50 to get out of jail, from whence you are put on
Just Visiting.
  Difficult to do if you're not there.

     trade
           trade  with another player.  It asks you with whom you
wish to
           trade, and then asks you what each wishes to give  up.
You can get
           a  summary  at the end, and, in all cases, it asks for
confirmation
           of the trade before doing it.

     resign
           resign to another player or the bank.  If  you  resign
to the bank,
           all property reverts to its virgin state, and get-outof-jail-free
           cards revert to the deck.

     save  save the current game in a file for later  play.   You
can continue
           play  after saving, either by adding the file in which
you saved the
           game after the monop command, or by using the  restore
command (see
           below).   It  will ask you which file you wish to save
it in, and, if
           the file exists, confirm that you  wish  to  overwrite
it.

     restore
           read  in  a  previously  saved  game  from a file.  It
leaves the file
           intact.

     roll  roll the dice and move forward to your  new  location.
If you simply
           hit  the  <RETURN> key instead of a command, it is the
same as typing
           roll.

FILES    [Toc]    [Back]

     /usr/share/games/cards.pck  Chance and Community Chest cards

AUTHORS    [Toc]    [Back]

     Ken Arnold

BUGS    [Toc]    [Back]

     No command can be given an argument instead of a response to
a query.

     Additional cash cannot be generated  during  an  auction  by
selling buildings
 or by mortgaging property.

     The trading of mortgaged properties is not billed correctly.

     Resigning to the bank should trigger the  immediate  auction
of all possessions.


OpenBSD      3.6                          March      25,     1993