On these pages are the various parts of a
game similar to Parker Brothers’ Monopoly®, based on the mythical
country of Esperantujo, where everything is communicated in
Esperanto. You can print out the game on your printer:| Home — Hejmen | Back — Reen |
On these pages are the various parts of a
game similar to Parker Brothers’ Monopoly®, based on the mythical
country of Esperantujo, where everything is communicated in
Esperanto. You can print out the game on your printer:
First, print out the map.
You can print out the small board on a single sheet of card stock. If you’re very fortunate, you have a color printer. Set your printer driver to print backgrounds before printing.
Otherwise, print out the three large
board sections: North,
South, and East-West, and
you’ll have three sheets that look like these in the picture on the right.
Be sure to print them in the “landscape” orientation.
Cut apart the “west”
and “east” sides, and trim their top and left edges.
Set the “north” side on top of the
“south” side.
Set the east and west sides on top of those and tape them all
together on the margins.
Tape everything securely into position on the back, and turn it right-side-up again.
Trim the edges of the board neatly, and if you don’t have
a color printer, use colored pencils to color the top rectangles of all of the
color-group properties.
Glue the board to a piece of stiff cardboard to make it sturdier.
You may want to find an appropriate sturdy cardboard box to keep your game in. I found a very nice one that has a pleasant pepperoni fragrance.
There are two pages of deeds. Print out pages
one and two, and cut the deeds
apart with your friendly neighborhood paper-cutter.
Color the borders of the deeds where appropriate as you did the spaces on the board.
Note that in my version of the game, one color-set is streets, another is avenues, etc., and that the two or three properties in each set have related names.
Print out the sets of “Chance” and “Community Chest” cards, as you did with the deeds.
If you’re fortunate, you have two different colors of card stock to print these on. If not, you’ll have a set that looks like mine.
I’ve made a philosophical change to the sets of cards. The real sets have sixteen of each type of card, whereas my set has twenty of each.
The “Chance” cards mostly send you somewhere, and I have cards not contained in standard sets: one for each utility and railroad, and one for a property in each color group. The only one involving money is “Advance to GO”.
The “Community Chest” cards are the ones that give or take money.
Print out the sheet of
houses, hotels, and tokens, and cut them apart. Cut the
tokens into strips of three identical symbols and one blank box, then fold on the internal
lines and tape them into a ring. There are more tokens than there should be players
in a game, to give the players more of a choice.
Using colored pencils or pens, you can color the backgrounds of the houses and hotels green and red, and the tokens various colors to make them more recognizable.
Or, if you have a lick of sense, skip this whole step and use the houses, hotels, and tokens from a real Monopoly® set instead.
I have created several styles of play money appropriate for a game such as this. They have been on my site for some time, waiting for me to design a game that needs them. Due to an overabundance of cuteness in my psyche, all these bills have serial numbers that change every time you hit the [F5] key to refresh the screen, so you can print stacks of bills, each with a unique number.
Cut the bills apart, just like everything else. Note that the bills are of different sizes: larger bills for larger denominations, just like the euros of the European Union.
And of course, the bills are denominated in steloj, with the symbol ˜, but in English, we can call them stars. The stelo is the monetary unit of Esperantujo, and I imagine it as having a value of about $10. Their coins, in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 cendoj are the small change for things like newspapers, magazines, and lunch at «Ho-Kia-Sandviĉo» (Esperantujo’s blatant rip-off of the Southwest’s Whataburger® chain), and the bills are for large purchases, like meals in better restaurants, gasoline, and major appliances. So a couple of those ˜1000 bills will get you a new car, plus a wad of change.
Of course, my choice of property names, words on the cards, designs of the money, etc., are not the only possible choices. Here are two other designs, one on Vikipedio (the Espersanto version of Wikipedia), and one by a fellow named Dave Rutan, both of whom have nice-looking designs for their boards, but neither of them can be printed out on your printer and played, so of course, mine here is vastly superior.
If you have actually printed out and assembled this game and have tried it, I would appreciate hearing how you liked it, as well as any critical comments, questions or suggestions. Please write, and I’ll get back to you.
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