Q: What is this all about? What is Monopoly City Streets?
A: Monopoly City Streets is a new online game that turns the world's cities into a giant real life Monopoly City game board. This new game is an immersive experience that gives players a chance to experience the thrill of negotiating and building first hand. Players can personalize that experience and share it with their friends.

Q: Why is Hasbro launching Monopoly City Streets?
A: We're introducing this new game to get more players engaged in the thrill of negotiation - and to introduce a new game to the marketplace, MONOPOLY CITY

Q: Why did Hasbro decide to work with Google Maps?
A: Google Street Maps application is one of the best known in the world. With Monopoly City Streets, Hasbro has created a new way to use Google Maps which allows us to overlay buildings, skyscrapers and sewage works to bring to life the game play of our new Monopoly City game.

Q: Where did the street data for Monopoly City Streets come from?
A: Open Street maps provided the street names and that's what we used to create the game.

Q: What can players expect when they log on to Monopoly City Streets?
A: Players will be invited to register and will be given $3 million Monopoly dollars to start play. You can search for a street, purchase it and then decide if you want to start building immediately or if you want to purchase another street. You can select streets from virtually every city in the world -- whether it’s the street where you live or a street in Paris, London or New York. The more you build, the more rent you earn -- and if someone owns a street you want, you can contact them and negotiate for that street. The person who accumulates the most money and property wins the game.

Q: Where do I find the Monopoly City Streets game?
A: www.monopolycitystreets.com

Q: What is the cost to participate?
A: There is no cost to participate in Monopoly City Streets.

Q: I can see my street on the map, but I can’t buy it. Why not?
A: Some of the smaller streets are not available for purchase in Monopoly City Streets. If it’s a larger street, please keep trying and report a problem. We will try to resolve the problem as soon as possible.

Q: Why isn’t my street on the map?
A: The streets available for purchase through Monopoly City Streets are limited to those included in the OpenStreetMap program as we are subject to the streets that they have documented in their map database.

Q: Do I have to buy streets in the area where I live?
A: No. When you play Monopoly City Streets, you aren’t limited to your own neighborhood or country. If you’ve always dreamed of owning property in Paris, Hawaii or New York City, now’s your chance to move in on the neighborhood!

Q: How long can people play the game online?
A: Monopoly City Streets will be live and open for your Monopoly real estate dreams until January 31, 2010.

Q: Why are you not keeping the game past January 2010?
A: We want to watch the popularity of the site in the coming months and see how consumers react. But at the present time, we are planning on closing the application on Jan 31. We can't speculate on what we may decide to do at that point.

Q: How can I protect my properties from being bulldozed?
A: Just as when playing Monopoly City, players can protect their properties by adding bonus buildings to their properties. Bonus buildings, which include parks, schools, water towers and wind farms are available on the Chance cards players pick up throughout the game.

Q: How much money do I receive each day?
A: Each day that you log into the game you will receive a payday amount of $1 million Monopoly dollars plus rent for your owned properties. The amount of your income is determined by the properties you own and the number of blocks developed on each property.

Q: What happens when streets are sold with buildings on them?
A: When you sell a street to another player, the buildings are included. They do not go back to the bank. Sell wisely!

Q: I’m being bullied. Someone keeps bulldozing my properties. Can you disqualify them?
A: No. To protect your properties we recommend building parks, schools and other bonus buildings on your streets as soon as you have the opportunity by receiving a Chance card. We will not disqualify players unless we suspect that a player has an unfair advantage.

Q: How many languages is Monopoly City Streets available in?
A: Monopoly fans from around the world are invited to play Monopoly City Streets in one of the five available languages: English, Spanish, German, French and Dutch.

Q: Where do I have to live to play Monopoly City Streets?
A: Anyone living anywhere in the world can play Monopoly City Streets as long as they have an Internet connection. When you play, you aren’t limited to your own neighborhood or country. If you’ve always dreamed of owning property in Paris, now’s your chance to move in on the neighborhood!

Q: Monopoly City Streets isn’t working today?
Option 1 (Google Maps are down): We encourage you to keep trying the site. Google Maps is currently down and they are working as quickly as possible to resolve the problem.
Option 2 (Monopoly City Streets is down): We encourage you to keep trying the site. We are aware of the problems and are working as quickly as possible to resolve the problem.

Q: Why isn’t my street on the map?
A: The streets available for purchase through Monopoly City Streets are limited to those included in the OpenStreetMap program as we are subject to the streets that they have documented in their map database.

Q: My street isn’t spelled properly. Why not?
A: The information that is included in Monopoly City Streets is limited to that provided in the OpenStreetMap program as we are subject to the streets that they have documented in their map database.

Q: Are you using the latest version of Google maps?
A: We are using the latest version of Google maps available for third party applications.

Q: I wanted to buy property in North Korea or Isreal. Why doesn’t it appear on the map?
A: The streets available for purchase through Monopoly City Streets are limited to those included in the OpenStreetMap program as we are subject to the streets that they have documented in their map database.