Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about Monopoly Online.
Yes: fully free, no ads, no in-app purchases, no paywalled features. Every part of the game is unlocked from day one.
Anywhere from 2 to 5. Lobbies auto-start the second the last seat fills, but you can also kick off a game manually as soon as a second player joins.
28 real global brands grouped by industry: Apple and Microsoft (Technology), Tesla and BMW (Automotive), Amazon and eBay (Marketplaces), Qatar Airways and Ryanair (Airlines), Visa and Mastercard (Finance), DHL and FedEx (Industry), plus apparel, food, and social-media giants.
Nothing. The game runs in any modern browser: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge. Open the link, sign in, play.
Yes. On portrait phones the board reflows and the player list becomes a horizontal scroll bar above the board instead of a side panel. Tested on iOS Safari and Android Chrome.
Most matches finish in 30–90 minutes. The dynamic economy prevents stalling: salaries stop at 46 minutes, taxes start at 61 minutes and grow 10% every 5 minutes, so the endgame closes itself out instead of dragging.
Yes. Add them through the friends system and send a direct invite into your lobby, or just share the lobby URL: anyone with the link can join until the table is full.
The game keeps running on the server. You can rejoin any time. Miss three turns in a row by timeout, though, and you'll be auto-bankrupted: so don't ghost for long.
Built-in chat sits next to the event log. Public messages reach the whole table, and you can DM a specific player privately: handy when you're negotiating a trade.
Any active player can call a vote. The game pauses only if every active player agrees, and any single player can resume it. Bathroom breaks are now officially supported.
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