MPOLY(6)

💖 MPOLY — bestie's guide to Monopoly, but make it terminal 💖

okay so this is mpoly, from the Games Manual section (section 6, games, you know the vibe) 👑 and it's basically Monopoly but it lives in your terminal and it does NOT care about your feelings or your bank balance.

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✨ NAME ✨

mpoly — the Monopoly game, fr fr 🎲

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mpoly [file]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so like. mpoly is giving major Parker Brother's Monopoly energy 💅 and it runs a whole game for 1 to 9 users. we're assuming you already know the rules of Monopoly, because this page is not about to explain what a hotel is to you. 🏨

the game follows the standard rules, with one little exception bestie, listen up: if a property goes up for auction and there are only two solvent players, no auction is held and the property just stays unowned. periodt.

here's the spicy part: mpoly effectively lends the player money, so it is genuinely possible to buy something which you cannot afford. 😭 iconic behaviour honestly. BUT — the second a person goes into debt, they must "fix the problem", i.e. make themselves solvent, before play can continue. if that's not possible, the player's property reverts to their debtee, either a player or the bank. so like, consequences. 💀

a player can resign at any time to any person or the bank, which puts the property back on the board, unowned.

any time that the response to a question is a string — like a name, place or person — you can type ? to get a list of valid answers. 🫶 and no, it is not possible to input a negative number, nor is it ever necessary. so don't even try it, the math is mathing on its own.

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🌈 A Summary of Commands 🌈

• quit — quit game: this lets you quit the game. it asks you if you're sure. (it's a whole vibe check before you leave 🥺)
• print — print board: prints out the current board. the columns have the following meanings (and ngl, the column headings are the same for the where, own holdings, and holdings commands):
  • Name — the first ten characters of the name of the square.
  • Own — the number of the owner of the property.
  • Price — the cost of the property (if any).
  • Mg — this field has a * in it if the property is mortgaged.
  • # — if the property is a Utility or Railroad, this is the number of such owned by the owner. if the property is land, this is the number of houses on it.
  • Rent — current rent on the property. if it is not owned, there is no rent.
• where — where players are: tells you where all the players are. a * indicates the current player. main character detection, basically ⭐
• own holdings — list your own holdings, i.e. money, get-out-of-jail-free cards, and property. 💸
• holdings — holdings list: look at anyone's holdings. it will ask you whose holdings you wish to look at. when you are finished, type done. (nosy queen behaviour, we support it 🙈)
• mortgage — mortgage property: sets up a list of mortgageable property, and asks which you wish to mortgage.
• unmortgage — unmortgage property: unmortgage mortgaged property. undoing your mistakes, love that for you ✨
• buy — buy houses: sets up a list of monopolies on which you can buy houses. if there is more than one, it asks you which you want to buy for. it then asks you how many for each piece of property, giving the current amount in parentheses after the property name. if you build in an unbalanced manner (a disparity of more than one house within the same monopoly), it asks you to re-input things. so like, build evenly bestie, it WILL catch you 🚨
• sell — sell houses: sets up a list of monopolies from which you can sell houses. it operates in an analogous manner to buy.
• card — card for jail: use a get-out-of-jail-free card to get out of jail. if you're not in jail, or you don't have one, it tells you so. 😭
• pay — pay for jail: pay $50 to get out of jail, from whence you are put on Just Visiting. difficult to do if you're not there. (the audacity of this command 💀)
• trade — this allows you to trade with another player. it asks you whom you wish to trade with, and then asks you what each wishes to give up. you can get a summary at the end, and, in all cases, it asks for confirmation of the trade before doing it. no take-backsies 🫶
• resign — resign to another player or the bank. if you resign to the bank, all property reverts to its virgin state, and get-out-of-jail-free cards revert to the deck. dramatic exit, honestly iconic 💅
• save — save game: save the current game in a file for later play. you can continue play after saving, either by adding the file in which you saved the game after the mpoly command, or by using the restore command (see below). it will ask you which file you wish to save it in, and, if the file exists, confirm that you wish to overwrite it.
• restore — restore game: read in a previously saved game from a file. it leaves the file intact. ✨ respectful of your files, as it should be.
• roll — roll the dice and move forward to your new location. if you simply hit the ⟨RETURN⟩ key instead of a command, it is the same as typing roll. so you can just vibe and hit enter 🎲

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Ken Arnold

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🦋 FILES 🦋

/usr/share/bsd-games//monop-cards.pck  Chance and Community Chest cards

(yes bestie, there really are two slashes in there, we do not question it, we respect it 🌈)

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💀 BUGS 💀

no command can be given an argument instead of a response to a query. so like, answer the questions, don't try to be clever. 🥲

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and that's the whole page, you ate that 💖 this beauty came from Debian, dated March 25, 1993 — yeah, vintage, retro, lowkey a historical artifact, and she's still serving 🌸 go forth and bankrupt your friends, bestie 🫶✨