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While Don’t Go to Jail does a solid job replicating the theme from Monopoly, it has nothing else in common with the game. You then have to roll the dice trying to collect sets of properties like in a normal game of Monopoly. Don’t Go to Jail takes the properties from the gameboard and places them on the dice. Instead of having to waste time buying properties and paying rent, Don’t Go to Jail focuses on rolling dice.

So as I have already mentioned Don’t Go to Jail was one of Parker Brothers attempts to speed up the game of Monopoly. While Monopoly Express slightly tweaked some of the rules, the two games basically share the same gameplay so I think this review can also apply to Monopoly Express. My Thoughts on Don’t Go to Jail and Monopoly Expressīefore beginning the review I would like to bring up that for this review I played Don’t Go to Jail which was the predecessor to Monopoly Express. Scoring is conducted in the same way but players will score an additional $1,000 for each house and $5,000 for a hotel.When a player collects one or more sets they are also able to score points for one of their incomplete sets.Get Out of Jail Free: You can re-roll one of the policeman (like rolling a “Go”, “To” or “Jail” in Don’t Go to Jail) that you rolled on a previous turn.Hotel: You can score an additional $5,000 if you already have all four houses.Broken House: Lose one of the houses that you have already taken.House: Take one of the houses which will give you more points at the end of the round.The house/hotel die has four different sides: Once a player has completed a set they have the opportunity to role the house/hotel die for the rest of their turn.If the “Pass Go” side is rolled the player automatically earns 200 points. Monopoly Express includes a “Pass Go” symbol on some of the sides.

In addition to the rules in Don’t Go to Jail, these additional rules were added to Monopoly Express: Whichever player ends up with the most points wins the game. If all of the players haven’t had the same number of turns, the rest of the players get to take their turns.

The game ends when one of the players reach the agreed upon number of points. The player will score 800 points for the utilities and 2,500 for the railroads for a total of 3,300 points. This player has completed both the railroad and utility sets.

While you can have some mindless fun with Don’t Go to Jail/Monopoly Express, the game has some serious problems which keep it from being a good game. These two games take Monopoly and turn it into game that relies entirely on dice rolling. Today I am looking at another of those games Don’t Go to Jail which was later tweaked and renamed Monopoly Express. A while back we even looked at one of these games the Monopoly Card Game. Because of the popularity of the franchise Parker Brothers/Hasbro has tried several times over the years to fix this problem which has lead to quite a few spinoff games that have utilized the Monopoly theme. One of the biggest complaints people have with Monopoly is that the game takes way too long which is a complaint that I totally agree with. Monopoly has always had a love/hate relationship with board gamers as some people really like it while others hate it. For a game created over 80 years ago it is actually quite impressive that the game is still as popular as it is. Created in 1933 Monopoly has grown into one of if not the most recognizable board game in the entire world.