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''Easy Money'' was a board game introduced by Milton Bradley Company in 1935. The game is based on The Landlord's Game as is ''Monopoly'' in the movement of pieces around the board, the use of cards, properties that can be purchased, and houses that can be erected on them. ==Game play== ''Easy Money'' is a member of the ''Landlord's Game''/auction family of games, of which ''Monopoly'' is the most famous example. Players begin with a set amount of money. Properties allow owners to charge rents based on the houses purchased on that property. Players may trade or sell properties. Other spaces have particular action that must be taken when landing on or passing over. Key differences from ''Monopoly'' include: no "color groups" for properties (instead, a player must own one "street" on each of the four sides of the board before properties can be improved); no Title Deed cards with printed rents and mortgage values (instead, the information is printed on the gameboard); and no dedicated "Jail" space. Instead of a shared pool of houses and hotels, each player has 16 color-coded house that are used to denote ownership of a property as well as the current rent value. Rather than the two card types in Parker Brothers' ''Monopoly'' (and early ''Finance'' sets) players draw "Give-or-Take" cards whenever they throw doubles on the dice, with similar rewards and penalties. Players start with $2,000 (rather than $1,500 as they do in ''Monopoly''), and earn $250 (not $200) for completing a full circuit of the board. In the 1974 edition of the game, basic dollar amounts were multiplied by 10; consequently, these figures became $20,000 to start with and $2,500 for a full circuit, with commensurate increases in property values and rents. A game of ''Easy Money'' ends when one player is not able to pay what they owe, and had sold or mortgaged all of their properties. At that point (if more than two are playing), the cash-on-hand of each remaining player, plus the value of each property owned (and not mortgaged), is used to determine each player's net worth; the player with the highest total is determined the winner. (One major flaw in ''Easy Money'' is that a player collects more by mortgaging than paid when purchasing properties.) Games can last several hours, but games with three or more players are generally shorter than a typical ''Monopoly'' session with the same number of players (as it is not a requirement for one player to force ''all'' of their opponents into bankruptcy). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Easy Money (board game)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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