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Though it might be kind of an odd time for a spooky-themed adventure inMonopoly Gothis weekend, amid everyone’s real-life holiday season prep, but a new event has debuted in Scopely’s hit mobile game with a cold and creepy theme: Haunted Mansion, a new eight-person team event.
With the other players on your team, you’ll rid Mr. Monopoly’s winter home of all its scary inhabitants. Build your team on December 12 and 13 and get to work as soon as you’ve got all eight folks ready to go - you’ve gotuntil 3PM EST on December 17to play.
Build Your Team And Collect Haunted Mansion Tokens
The Haunted Mansion adventure event in Monopoly Go technically opened on December 12 at 12PM EST, allowing players toassemble a team of seven other playersto begin playing the event itself. You’ve got 24 hours to select a team yourself, but incomplete teams will be paired with random players so they can begin the adventure before too long.
These players can be anyone from your friends list or even the random players Monopoly Go suggests for you, but just be mindful that you’re not the only one able to invite other players to the team once other players have joined. Everyone on a team is able to invite people until all eight player slots are filled, so you’d do well toteam up with the most active players on your friends listwhere possible, so you’re not carrying the load for the team the whole weekend through.
You can leave your team if you don’t like how it’s shaping up, but you can only leave your team before the Haunted Mansion event begins properly. Once the team is full and the adventure has begun, you’re on that team for the duration of the event, so decide sooner than later if you’re sticking around!
Before you can begin tackling the tasks to reassemble this dilapidated Haunted Mansion, you’ll first need tocollect Haunted Mansion tokens from other eventshappening concurrently in Monopoly Go throughout the weekend. Methods of getting more Haunted Mansion tokens include:
Once you’ve got a few tokens on hand and a full team assembled, click onto the center of your Monopoly Go game board to begin playing Haunted Mansion.
How Do You Play Haunted Mansion?
The Haunted Mansion adventure event can appear a bit confusing when you first start, butthe event begins for your teamas soon as the team is full, so be sure to check in often to see what your seven teammates have been up to. The goal of the Haunted Mansion event is towork together to achieve goalsthroughout the weekend, repairing Mr. Monopoly’s mansion as you go, which you’ll do byplaying a card gamewith those tokens you collected.
In each area of the Haunted Mansion, you and your team will be given an overall goal to complete so that you can finish the room, earn that level’s rewards, and move onto the next to make as much progress as possible before the event ends at 12PM EST on December 17. Each area’s goals will involve your teamworking together on different tasks in each room, effectively dividing and conquering the cleaning and reparation work.
You’ll do this by playing a simple card game, and if you’ve ever played Blackjack, it’s somewhat similar. When you’re ready to get to work on the Haunted Mansion, click onto the game board, and you’ll see your teammates conglomerated arounddifferent broken pieces around the current room, working on different tasks at the same time. The goal is tofully complete the progress bar at the top of the screenwhen you’re interacting with each repairable obstacle in the Haunted Mansion.
How To Clear Obstacles And Earn Rewards
When you’ve highlighted an obstacle, you’ll seethree numbers at the bottom of the screen, presented against the back of two playing cards, with the requisite number of Haunted Mansion tokens below that shows how many you’ll need to challenge this hand each time you do. You’ll also see a fewbluish dots below each number, which indicatehow many sections of the progress bar will fill when this challenge is completed.
When you challenge one of these hands of cards, you’llpull two cardsfrom a deck numbered one through nine, and the goal of the Haunted Mansion event is tohave the sum of the two cards you pulled be equal to or greater than the number shown on that hand’s challenge. For example, if the number on the card challenge is 12, you’ll need to pull cards that total 12 or more to clear this challenge.
What you’re also working against is anunseen deck of cardsfrom which you’re pulling, which, like every other standard deck of playing cards, has36 number cards per deck. You’ll be pulling from this deck without really realizing it, discarding used numbers until it’s time to shuffle your hand. If you’ve been scoring high, you may want to tackle lower-value cards for a few hands until the higher numbers show back up.
If you’ve ever playedBlackjack, it’s somewhat similar. Think of the numbers shown on the Haunted Mansion obstacles as the number played by the dealer, and the two cards you draw have to be higher than theirs - you just don’t get to choose when to hit or hold. If you’re good at card counting, trying to work out the number of numerical cards left in the deck may come in handy here!
Should you clear one of the numbers shown on the Haunted Mansion cards, you’ll see that theprogress bar at the top of each obstaclewill be slightly filled with each victory! You’ll see that thisprogress bar is broken into sections, and as mentioned above, the number of bluish dots shown below each hand of cards you’ll need to best indicates how many sections of the progress bar you’ll fill in when you finish that challenge.
Each room has a few different obstacles, each with their own hand of cards you and your teammates will need to complete.Each player plays with their own tokens, but you’re working together as a teamto make progress, so be a good teammate and check in anytime you have a few tokens on hand! Along the way, you may also seeoptional treasure cheststhat you can use your tokens to try and open instead.Only one player per team can claim each treasure chest, so choose wisely!
In general, teams seem to work best when yousplit up to cover different obstacles in the room, so if you see several people already clustered around something early on, you may be better off starting elsewhere. There are also plenty of reasons tostick together when obstacles are nearly finished- you can cash in on occasionally getting a multiplier for having multiple teammates helping.
Each task your team finishes grants a level reward, and you’ll all be paid out with the same prize no matter who did what for the progression of the team. You’ll then move into the next room, and the process will begin anew with a fresh set of challenges. This continues throughout the weekend, so be sure to try and hit as many milestone benchmarks in the Haunted Mansion as you can before the event ends!
Capitalize On Special Cards
While you don’t get to manually draw cards from a deck when playing the Haunted Mansion adventure card minigame in Monopoly Go, you will occasionally happen to draw one offour different specialty cardsfrom within the deck.
These cards are only active for a limited time, so be sure to use them when you’re able to compound the points you’re able to score on each obstacle in Haunted Mansion!
