How to play
- The host picks the map (The Barrio, Cloverville or Costa Rica with the Party Pass) and the game clock: 5, 15 or 25 minutes (45 with the Party Pass).
- Every round starts with a barrio event that bends the rules for a while: bonus cash for everyone, street parties that double rents, blackouts, traffic jams, bus strikes and more.
- On your turn roll the die and walk the one-way streets. At every fork you choose your path: the shortcut is quicker, the long way has more lots.
- Land on a free lot to buy it. You can open one business per turn on any of your lots: a shop pays you a steady income every turn, a diner charges every rival who walks past, and a hotel charges a huge rent to whoever lands there. Own a whole barrio for an extra bonus.
- Special spaces: the market pays you for your businesses, the fair spins a prize wheel, the terminal lets you ride a bus to another terminal, and the downpour lets you send the rain cloud over a rival barrio, where nothing earns until the cloud moves.
- Trade lots and cash with other players and sell to the bank when you run short. When the clock runs out, the biggest fortune (cash + lots + businesses) wins. If everyone else goes bankrupt, you win early!
Tycoon is a free online board game to play with friends right in your browser: walk a city map of one-way streets, pick your path at every fork, buy lots in each barrio and open shops, diners and hotels to build the biggest fortune. Barrio events every round, rain clouds, fairs, bus terminals and trades. Timed matches from 5 to 25 minutes for 2 to 8 players on their own phones with nothing to download. Includes a premium Costa Rica map, from Guanacaste to the Caribbean.
