The first step is to pick out the 4 Quick start rules cards and shuffle the rest of the cards face down. Then, each player should be dealt five cards called the hand cards. Each player is allowed to look at their cards but keep them secret. The remaining cards can be placed face down to form the draw pile. The first player can then be determined in a consensus and play continues in a clockwise manner.

At each player’s turn, one should pick two cards from the pile. If there are no cards in your hand, you should pick five. According to other rules that are not officially declared, when the cards in the pile are exhausted, the used cards can be shuffled to form a new pile. It brings much more excitement in the game as the cards in the pile happen to be action cards.

Then, one is required to play up to three cards. One can put down an action card, money card or property card or a combination of the three. If a money card is put down, then you should put it in the bank in front of you. The bank should be put in a single pile of cards on their own. If the card is a property card, it should be placed in the collection in front of you. The collection should be arranged systematically in rows such that each row represents either an incomplete set or complete one. A set can be composed of single colored cards, multicolored cards and two colored cards of the same color. When money or action cards are put in the bank, they act as money until the game comes to an end.

The official rules have no clause that say you can’t make two sets of similar color. Therefore, to prevent the cards being stolen by the Deal breaker, you can split the cards and place them in different sets even when one has three green cards.

If the card played is an action card, there are two options. One is to put it in the bank, and the second is to play it into the centre excluding houses and hotels. Remember the rules governing building houses and hotels. A house should be built on a complete set, and a hotel should be built on a house.

Extra cards should then be discarded to leave 7 cards. This means that should choose the cards to discard and place them at the bottom of the draw pile in order to leave 7 in your hand. You are also allowed to rearrange properties only during your turn, but this is not the case for houses or hotels. Once these are played, they should remain there. However, official rules state that it is in order for houses and hotels to be used to settle debts before the property sets are broken up.