Hotel (board game)

Hotel (in many countries Hotels ) is a 1974 published in Denys Fisher Toys board game by Denys Fisher, which has been marketed since 1986 by Milton Bradley / Hasbro. Also Flair Games there is the game as Hotel Las Vegas. In 2004, the game was released at Parker Brothers.

Hotel is suitable for two to four players aged eight years. The goal is to be similar to the game of Monopoly as a monopolist to acquire most of the hotels and at the same time to drive his teammates into insolvency.

Game History

Aim of the game

On the board there is a way, are drawn on the various fields of action. Left and right are plots, which are to be acquired, this can be upgraded by hotel buildings and entrances there. Who - determined by the number of dice - stops at the entrances, lodges there and paid the appropriate rent. Through the purchase and sale of hotels and entire systems as well as shortage of money the individual players finally goes one of the players as the winner by having all corporations or other players all have no more money.

Since there are unlike Monopoly neither event cards yet Mortgages are available ( to compensate for a short-term lack of money ), there is a danger that the game after the final removal of all hotel complexes is rather monotonous - it is finally just rolled and the respective hotel accommodation price discharged ( until one player after the other becomes insolvent ). If the individual hotels very balanced distributed to the players, the game can also take a long time.

Detailed game play

It is rolled clockwise starting with the youngest player begins. Depending on which field of action to deal with his character, a colorful toy cars, lands, there are several options:

• The "Buy " field is characterized by the money of the bundle icon. There, the player has the option to purchase the adjacent property ( on a field or two adjacent properties are possible, but you can buy in a turn only one). The purchase price is specified in the associated map.
• The " Baugenehmigungs-/Bau " field shows ( depending on version) a hard hat or a building plan including surveying device. Now the player has a building permit to apply for one of its properties, which belongs to him and not only adjacent, to build hotel building option. If he wants this, the player must first determine how many buildings he wants to build on the selected plot (min. 1, max. Them all at once ). Then must be rolled with a separate cube, the following pages comprises: Red means the player does not receive a building permit and must not build this turn. Green ( 3x on the dice available) means he builds buildings for fixed price which he pays to the bank. 2x means he built the building at twice the price. And there is a free field (H ) on the cube, where the player gets paid or the building. (If a building permit was issued, the player must build the proposed building in any case (if that is even at twice the price ). The only alternative to the construction is then an auction of the property together with all existing building to another player. (In this case is then applied not built. ) gradually the plants grow on. least be ( to be previously landed on a certain field without planning permission and without) created amusement parks, the round into the hotel complex.
• The " stairs " field outside the town hall: Here the player can buy inputs ( one input per hotel with at least one constructed building ).
• Other special fields that allow the Gratisbau of buildings or entrances.
• Trade with other players is possible if you are on a "Buy - box " lands and a teammate has an adjacent property already, but without building. He has this property then sell for half price.

Lands of the players now on a field, in which it is left or right input, he pays the rent for the night to their respective owners. The amount of the rent may vary depending upon the stage of development of the hotel ( = star ) and the number of nights ( 1-6 ). The latter is determined by an additional design with the normal cube.

Equipment

The game is the classic Monopoly very related, but is a refined by graphic elements variant: So "hotel" is known for its creative features. The buildings of various hotel groups consist of colored cardboard, which is complemented with plastic elements (roofs and base) to give the buildings more stability.