New Board Spaces
The Mega gameboard includes 12 new spaces. Eight of those new spaces are new properties (one for each color group) as follows (US version):
- Purples*: Arctic Avenue
- Light Blues: Massachusetts Avenue
- Maroons: Maryland Avenue
- Oranges: New Jersey Avenue
- Reds: Michigan Avenue
- Yellows: California Avenue
- Greens: South Carolina Avenue
- Dark Blues: Florida Avenue
- NOTE: As with other US editions, the Mega Edition has changed the first Color Group from Purple to Brown with the recent reprints of the game.
In the UK Version the new properties are:
- Brown: Elephant and Castle
- Light Blue: Edgware Road
- Pink: Downing Street
- Orange: High Holborn
- Red: Aldwych
- Yellow: Shaftesbury Avenue
- Green: Saville Row
- Dark Blue: Knightsbridge
There is also a third Utility, the Gas Company, situated between CHANCE and Vermont Avenue/Pentonville.
The other three spaces are completely new to the board. Just after Jail/Just Visiting is the AUCTION space. If a player lands on this space while the bank still owns ANY properties, that player chooses one of the available properties to be auctioned off between the players (in similar fashion to regular property auctions). If the bank has NO properties left to auction, the player that lands there moves forward to the property on which they would have to pay the highest rent (the closest one, in case of a tie for highest amount).
The second space, BUS TICKET (located between Michigan Avenue/Aldwych and the B. & O. Railroad/Fenchurch Street Station), allows the player landing there to draw a Bus Ticket card, if any remain. If there are no Bus Ticket cards to draw, the space acts as a second FREE PARKING space and has no further effect.
The last of the three new spaces, BIRTHDAY GIFT (located between CHANCE and Florida Avenue/Park Lane), gives the player that lands there a choice between taking $/£100 from the bank OR drawing a Bus Ticket card. (If no Bus Ticket cards remain, the player automatically gets the $/£100.)
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