Fans pick five new Monopoly rules

Fans have chosen five new rules of the iconic game Monopoly.

Several thousand people voted in on the new rules over 10 days of debate.

Jonathan Berkowitz, vice president of marketing, ahead of the house rules announcement, said that their goal is to stay current and deliver Monopoly in a way that they want to engage with it and that means sometimes being new and having modern takes on the brand, News.com.au reported.

Hasbro's house rules debate came after the toy company got results of a survey that showed that about 70 per cent of 1000 respondents said that they had never read all Monopoly rules and 34 per cent said they made up rules more than once.

The new rules include: no rent collection while in jail, landing on Go means players get 400 Monopoly dollars instead of the official 200. As for Free Parking, official rules call for absolutely nothing to happen when a player lands there. Under the house rule, any taxes and fees collected are thrown into the middle for a lucky someone who lands on that corner square.

Rounding up the five are that players have to travel around the board one full time before they begin to buy properties, and collecting 500 bucks for rolling double ones.