Clarkson Potter Show Me the Monet: A Card Game for Wheelers and (Art) Dealers

Like others we changed the rules, and in our case added monopoly money and a dice ...Each players starts with $500m (1 monopoly = $1m). All cards are shuffled and placed in a pile face down in the middle of the table. Players take turns to turn over the top card and then an auction takes place amongst all players with the player with the highest bid winning the painting for their gallery.Players can mortgage a painting they own at any time for 50% of its face value (they can thus bid higher than their cash holding, but must then mortgage paintings if they win the auction). Mortgaged paintings are turned face down and do not earn money at the end of the round.After each auction, the player whose turn it is rolls a "Chance" dice. =1 roll again to determine a bad event (eg. =1 fire, you lose all, but three of your paintings, =2 burglary, you lose your most valuable painting etc), =2 a tourist damaged a randomly chosen painting (turn it face down) =3 and =4 nothing, =5 a benefactor pays for a damaged painting to be restored (turn it face up), =6. roll again to determine a good event (eg =6 benefactor donates $200m, =5 benefactor donates $100m etc).After all players have turned a card and rolled a dice then the round ("year") is over and each player earns money from visitors to their art gallery that year. Only face up cards earn money (ie mortgaged and damaged paintings don't earn money):10% of total face value on cards ++$5m, $10m and $25m for 2, 3 and 4 cards by the same artist+$5m, $10m and $25m for 2, 3 and 4 landscape or still life paintings+$5m and $10m for 2 or 3 different Italian or Dutch artists+$5m and $10m for 2 or 3 different female artistsOnly one bonus per painting if it falls into two categories apart from female artists which can be combined with other bonuses.After money is earned, players can trade paintings and/or unmortgage and restore damaged paintings (50% of face value cost).The next round then starts with the first player drawing the top card and all players bidding on it again.52 cards = 13 rounds. At the end of the final round all players add up the total value of paintings in their gallery/collection then add to that value any remaining cash held. The highest overall value wins.I will post these rules online somewhere with more detail.Enjoy!

Great gift for the art lover

Great game and beautiful