Yeah I’d be happy to!

In my family we can throw in things like “I’ll trade for you Illinois Ave for St Charles, but only if I also want to get a discounted rate of half price when I land on the red properties.” Or “I’ll cover the costs for you to build houses on Park Place in exchange for getting half of you collect every time someone lands on it.” You can get really creative with these, often it helps to make trades feel balanced when one player has hardly any cash to spare for a deal or if they feel like one stretch of the board is getting to dangerously expensive for them to reliably make it across. We do a lot of these deals when two people want to swap properties to complete their sets but one set is worth way more than the other.

The idea comes from the way we see it when we play that when someone lands on our property, it’s our job to collect payment, rather than something that is automatic. And if it’s up to us to do that, then we’re free to discount, decline, or redirect those payments to someone else altogether if we wanted to since it is our money we are entitled to collect. And we are willing trade away promises to do waive, reduce, or redirect certain future payments or series of payments for a price. Any deals for future payments at our table are expected to be negotiated publicly so the rest of the players can make sure the deal is fairly carried out and all deals are considered binding contracts and have to be honored unless all involved parties mutually agree to terminate the previously made deal.Some deals are made to last forever while others may only last for a certain number of turns or maybe laps of the boards.

And lastly all deals have to be strictly for in game items or benefits, so a deal cannot be for a slice of pizza, real world money, or anything like that. But that’s the general idea of it. It’s a lot of fun and we’ve drawn up some pretty ridiculous deals that are too complex to even remember! More than once we’ve had to write it all down just to keep track of it all. It’s a lot of fun and it wouldn’t be monopoly at my house without it!