When do I add money to Free Parking?

Question

Alright. In the official rules you don't add money to Free Parking in monopoly. However, I know there are people that do anyway. Where did this come from? When do you do it? When you buy a property? When you pay taxes? When you get out of jail? When do you do it?

Answer 1

Dude it's basically against the rules to get money when you land on Free Parking, but our house rules are that you pay on taxes, Chance or Community chest cards if there's penalties and towards the end we put all the money towards buying the houses/hotels in there... it makes it last much longer. We also have a special rule when you actually land on go you get 500 as a bonus :D

Answer 2

We play where you add money to free parking anytime you have to pay income tax, get out of jail money, or if any of the Chance or Community Chest cards say pay money for whatever (unless it tells you to pay the other players). Mostly anything that is a penalty goes in Free Parking. Obviously, whoever lands on free parking gets the money. I don't know where this all started but we've always played it that way. Just makes it a little more interesting.

When you buy a property that money goes in the bank. Or if you buy houses, hotels.

Answer 3

No. No. NO! Free Parking is a space where nothing happens. Look it up in the rules!

In a four-player game the players on average gain $34 per turn each. In a game where the object is to bankrupt the other players it is folly to give someone $500 or more for a lucky roll of the dice. The game will never end!

May I suggest instead you play this: http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/StockExchangegame.pdf It is an official expansion set for Monopoly and it works better than putting a jackpot on Free Parking. By the way, the rules suggest but don't say directly that you're supposed to add three Community Chest cards and three Chance cards that say "Advance to Stock Market."

This variant works! Please take the time to download, mount the pieces and play it!

Answer 4

The Free Parking jackpot is a house rule. Usually, there is an initial stake of $500 plus any taxes or fines which would ordinarily be paid to the bank. If someone lands on it they collect the money and the $500 stake is put in by the bank.

Answer 5

Standardized "House Rules" for the Free Parking money goes as follows.

* The pot starts at $500
* All Taxes, Fines (from cards) & Bail goes into the pot upon payment.
* All Bank-related transactions (Property, Buildings, Morgages, ect.) goes back to the bank.

In the case of a Tax, Fine or Bail FORCES the player into Bankrupcy, all property is turned over to the bank to dispose of as the bank sees fit. This means that the bank either places the properties back on the market OR auctions them off to the highest bidder... based on your house rules.

Answer 6

We always played with the "free parking" when I was a kid over 50 years ago, so it has been around a long time. All fines and taxes go in there. Money from property and houses and hotels go in the bank.

Answer 7

We always started the pot off with a 500 dollar note . and then any fines or taxes, went into the pot..the first one to land on free parking got the spoils..When someone got the money, another 500 dollar note was added and the game continued on..

Answer 8

You add money to free parking when when you land on INCOME TAX or on one of those cards that tell you to pay something but not when it say to pay to each player!






*Valerie

Answer 9

the way i play is that all the get out of jail money luxury tax and that other tax i put in the middle so yea

Answer 10

i dont know where it came from but you put the luxury tax money in. maybe during the depression when the game came out and was popular, there was probably not luxury to tax in real life.