pubopoly
As many dice games come and go, I thought I'd have a go at creating one for Christmas 2005, now the festive period is a time of year when people play board games, and you'd have to be bored to play this game, it's Pubopoly!
The board and pub list have had an update since we first did this, but the basic rules remain the same.
the rules
At the start of the night decide the order that we're gonna roll in, otherwise it could cause problems later.
We play as a team, taking it in turns to roll two 6-sided dice and move around the board.
Like with Monopoly there's a board, and most squares represent a street. Whoever rolls the dice chooses a pub that's on that street, simple.
As there's no electric company or water works I had to come up with some replacements, so there's the Squares square, which includes the pubs in King's Square, St Helen's square and the bars in St Martin's Courtyard near the City Screen. There's also the Railway square, featuring the pubs at York Station.
But not all squares are streets...
Replacing the 4 stations in previous editions were bars and directions, this time it's a different kind of Bar. In place of the stations are four of the Bars of the City Walls, with nearby pubs associated with each. Monk Bar, Walmgate Bar, Micklegate Bar and Bootham Bar each get a square.
Like Monopoly there are also Chance and Community Chest squares.
If you land on a Chance, you have to roll the dice and choose a pub from the coloured section they tell you to.
If you land on a Community Chest, you have to roll the dice and choose a pub from the street they tell you to (Jig's alternative idea was to show your chest to the community, but that probably wouldn't go down well with the ladies).
In Monopoly if you land on or pass Go, you collect £200, that's not gonna happen in Pubopoly and there's no prizes just for passing, but if you do land on Go whoever rolls next has to buy you a drink.
Monopoly has a Free Parking square, Pubopoly has Free Drinking, if you land on it, whoever rolls next has to buy you a drink.
Monopoly also has Tax and Super Tax squares, Tax means you have to buy the next roller a drink, Super Tax means you have to buy a drink for everyone.
And then there's the two worst squares of all...
We aren't gonna send people to Jail, oh no, it's much, much worse. Replacing Go To Jail is Go To Kuda, now we don't have to go straight there, but if we land on this we have to go to Kuda at the end of the night (having been Gallery, Reflex and Willow on previous Pubopoly boards).
Avoiding Kuda...
In each of the Chance and Community Chest options, you can roll a 7 to avoid going to Kuda.
The other way to get out of going to jail in monopoly is rolling a double, the Pubopoly equivalent is downing a double, if whoever lands on Go to Kuda downs
a double in the next pub then we don't have to go.
As many dice games come and go, I thought I'd have a go at creating one for Christmas 2005, now the festive period is a time of year when people play board games, and you'd have to be bored to play this game, it's Pubopoly!
The board and pub list have had an update since we first did this, but the basic rules remain the same.
the rules
At the start of the night decide the order that we're gonna roll in, otherwise it could cause problems later.
We play as a team, taking it in turns to roll two 6-sided dice and move around the board.
Like with Monopoly there's a board, and most squares represent a street. Whoever rolls the dice chooses a pub that's on that street, simple.
As there's no electric company or water works I had to come up with some replacements, so there's the Squares square, which includes the pubs in King's Square, St Helen's square and the bars in St Martin's Courtyard near the City Screen. There's also the Railway square, featuring the pubs at York Station.
But not all squares are streets...
Replacing the 4 stations in previous editions were bars and directions, this time it's a different kind of Bar. In place of the stations are four of the Bars of the City Walls, with nearby pubs associated with each. Monk Bar, Walmgate Bar, Micklegate Bar and Bootham Bar each get a square.
Like Monopoly there are also Chance and Community Chest squares.
If you land on a Chance, you have to roll the dice and choose a pub from the coloured section they tell you to.
If you land on a Community Chest, you have to roll the dice and choose a pub from the street they tell you to (Jig's alternative idea was to show your chest to the community, but that probably wouldn't go down well with the ladies).
In Monopoly if you land on or pass Go, you collect £200, that's not gonna happen in Pubopoly and there's no prizes just for passing, but if you do land on Go whoever rolls next has to buy you a drink.
Monopoly has a Free Parking square, Pubopoly has Free Drinking, if you land on it, whoever rolls next has to buy you a drink.
Monopoly also has Tax and Super Tax squares, Tax means you have to buy the next roller a drink, Super Tax means you have to buy a drink for everyone.
And then there's the two worst squares of all...
We aren't gonna send people to Jail, oh no, it's much, much worse. Replacing Go To Jail is Go To Kuda, now we don't have to go straight there, but if we land on this we have to go to Kuda at the end of the night (having been Gallery, Reflex and Willow on previous Pubopoly boards).
Avoiding Kuda...
In each of the Chance and Community Chest options, you can roll a 7 to avoid going to Kuda.
The other way to get out of going to jail in monopoly is rolling a double, the Pubopoly equivalent is downing a double, if whoever lands on Go to Kuda downs
a double in the next pub then we don't have to go.
the streets
Here's the list of squares and the possible venues to go to. Like Monopoly the most valuable streets (the ones with the most options) tend to be nearer the end, although they also have a rough geographical order as if you were going clockwise around the City Walls. Most pubs are actually on the street mentioned, but a few are nearby, so things like Stonebow have Black Swan on them, despite the fact that it's on Peashome Green really, but it's all one road so it's close enough. The Ackhorne is included with Micklegate, and Coppergate and Fishergate are counted more as areas than the actual street. If you land on Go, Tax, Just Passing, Free Drinking, Super Tax or roll for a Chance or Community Chest that doesn't tell you where to go (like get out of Willow), then give the dice to the next person for them to roll the next pub. If you land on Go To Kuda, give the dice to the next person to roll the next pub, but they have to go back to the Kuda square. |
Go!
Whoever lands on or passes go gets a free drink from the next roller Gillygate Castle Howard Ox The Gillygate Punch Bowl Community Chest Roll the dice Stonebow Black Swan Duchess Golden Fleece Nevermind Tax Buy a drink for the next roller Monk Bar Black Horse Brigadier Gerard Keystones Shoulder of Mutton Swinegate 1331 Biltmore Golden Lion Hollywood Lounge Bar Pivni Slug and Lettuce Vudu Lounge Chance Roll the dice Parliament Street All Bar One Burns Hotel Dusk Roman Bath Three Cranes VJ's Art Bar Coppergate Blue Boar Henry J Beans Three Tuns Kuda Hopefully we're just passing Piccadilly Pavement Vaults Postern Gate Red Lion |
Squares
Attic at Harlequin City Screen Bar Duke of York Harkers Last Drop Inn Pitcher and Piano Revolution Ye Old Shambles Tavern Fossgate Blue Bell Fossgate Social The Hop Sutler's The Terrace Walmgate Spread Eagle Walmgate Ale House & Bistro Watergate Inn Walmgate Bar Brown Cow Rook and Gaskill Rose and Crown Tam O'Shanter Waggon and Horses Fulford Road Fulford Arms Melbourne Victoria Wellington Fishergate Lighthorseman Masons Arms Edinburgh Arms Loop Phoenix Seahorse Hotel Woolpack Community Chest Roll the dice King's Staith Kings Arms Lowther O'Neills Plonkers Slug and Lettuce Stone Roses Bar Winner Winner Yates's Free Drinking The next roller buys you a drink |
Rougier Street
Club Salvation Corner Pin Fibbers Flares Maltings Popworld Society Stein Bier Keller Skeldergate Cock and Bottle Golden Ball Missoula Queen's Hotel Bar Whippet Inn Chance Roll the dice Nunnery Lane Old Ebor Slip Inn The Swan Trafalgar Bay Victoria Vaults Micklegate Bar Gibson's Punchbowl The Windmill Blossom Street Bay Horse Inn Longboat The Mount Knavesmire Holgate Crystal Palace The Fox Puss N Boots Volunteer Arms Railway Duke of York York Tap Micklegate Ackhorne Artful Dodger Brewdog Brigantes Falcon Tap Micklegate at 127 Nagshead Parish The Priory York Brewery |
Go to Kuda
At the end of the night everyone has to go to Kuda Marygate Bay Horse Minster Inn Pitchside Bar Lendal Graduate Judges Lodging Lendal Cellars Star Inn the City Thomas's Community Chest Roll the dice High Petergate Dean Court Hotel Eagle and Child Guy Fawkes Hole in the Wall Three-Legged Mare York Arms Bootham Bar Bootham Tavern Exhibition Lamb and Lion Theatre Royal Bar White Horse Chance Roll the dice Stonegate Banyan Bar & Kitchen Evil Eye House of the Trembling Madness Kennedy's Punch Bowl Sotano Stonegate Yard Ye Olde Starre Inne Yorkshire Terrier Super Tax Buy everybody a drink Goodramgate Cross Keys Golden Slipper The Habit Old White Swan Royal Oak Snickleway Vahe Bar |
Chance
Rather than Chance cards, players roll the dice to find out what they've got 2: Go to any Brown pub 3: Go to any Pink pub 4: Go to any Red pub 5: Go to any pub with Golden in the name 6: Go to any Green pub 7: Get out of going to Willow 8: Go to any Dark Blue pub 9: Stay in the same pub for another drink 10: Go to any Yellow pub 11: Go to any Orange pub 12: Go to any Light Blue pub |
Community Chest
Rather than Community Chest cards, players roll to find out what they've got 2: Go to any pub near one of the Bars 3: Go to any pub on Stonegate 4: Go to any pub on Nunnery Lane 5: Go to any pub with Swan in the name 6: Buy everyone a drink in the next pub 7: Get out of going to Willow 8: The next roller has to buy you a drink 9: Go to any pub with a colour in the name 10: Go to any pub on Micklegate 11: Go to any pub on Goodramgate 12: Go to any of the Squares pubs |
2015 birthday special
What could be better than a dicegame? How about a dicegame within a dicegame! With my 37th birthday night out doubling up as a night of the Big 100, it needed something to set it apart from any other night out, so with plenty of central York pubs still to choose from, a simplified one-off board was concocted. Rather than streets, each coloured square was a specific pub. The station squares are occupied by the Nicholson's pubs. The Waterworks and Electric Company spots are replaced by extra Community Chest and Chance squares... Chance means it's the roller's choice of pubs. Community Chest means it's the birthday boy's pick. That just leaves the two tax squares... Land on Tax, you have to buy me a drink. Land on Super Tax, you have to buy everyone a drink. The four corners are simply roll again as the point of the night is to pick some pubs to visit, nobody is going to jail. With a 3 rolled in advance, the night begins in Black Horse. |
previous boards
Pubopoly will return...