Monopoly 2026 - Team Challenge Rules

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Here you can find general information for the team challenge. As always, the team challenge is optional, but it offers the opportunity to earn additional individual points.

The Board

The board comes with 32 prompts and four colors.

There will be two teams: Team Alpha & Team Omega. Sign up if you want to get assigned to a team.

Rules
To participate, post at least one work for the weekly regular challenge.
Participants can post one work every week to earn points for their assigned teams, plus some individual points.
Prompts can be used multiple times by different participants.

Every color row has its own minimum:
gold: 100 words - 1 icon - 3-line poem
blue: 150 words - 2 icons (or 1 graphic 150x300)- 6-line poem
green: 200 words - 3 icons (or 1 graphic 300 x 500) - 9-line poem
red: 250 words - 4 icons (or 1 graphic 500 x 800) - 12-line poem

Points
Team
One point for every posted piece of work.
Two points when finishing the gold line.
Three points when finishing the blue line.
Four points when finishing the green line.
Five points when finishing the red line.
Ten points when finishing all lines.

Individual
After finishing the gold line, everyone who submitted a fill will receive 1 point per work.
After finishing the blue line, everyone who submitted a fill for the color will receive 2 points per work.
After finishing the green line, everyone who submitted a fill for the color will receive 3 points per work.
After finishing the red line, everyone who submitted a fill for the color will receive 4 points per work.

Posting
Post your works at the empire_fandom_workplace.
Always make a separate post for a team fill.
Leave the name of your team and the used prompt in the subject line.
Use the tag of your team!

Sign up
Sign-up for a team will stay open until January 15.
To sign up for the team challenge, leave a comment on this post.
You can request to be assigned to a team (Alpha or Omega), but I cannot guarantee anything, as I will strive to keep the teams as evenly balanced as possible.

Monopoly 2026 - Board and Play Table

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( Prompts, minimum and points )

Unique words:
Calamity - a great misfortune or disaster
Ebullient - cheerfull and energetic
Ensconced - hiding in a secret, safe place
Flimflam - a trick or decption
Kismet - destiny
Lagom - not too much and not too litte; just the right amount
Lollapalooza - an extraordinary or impressive person
Metanoia - the journey of changing mind, heart and your way of life.
Moira - a person's fate or destiny
Orphic - mysterious and enchanting
Shenanigans - mischief, prank
Tacenda - things better left unsaid

No Fandom:
allowed are original works of any kind

Notes:
Graphics: All graphics should be edited!
Icons: Icons must fit DW standard (< 60kb, 100x100 px).
Minimum: More words/bigger graphics are fine.
Exactly: Follow the given requirements! (no smaller/bigger works are allowed)

Poems Minimum: The minimum gives you the number of lines, but it's up to you if you post one poem of (example!) 9 lines, or 3 connected haiku.
Graphics with different elements: Example 1: one main screenshot/stock photo plus some text or frame = two different elements. Example 2: one main screenshot/stock photo plus some text and a smiley = three different elements.

For the rules of the challenge go here.

Monopoly 2026 - Rules

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Welcome to our first challenge of 2026. Even if you have already participated in a Monopoly Challenge, please read the rules before signing up.



January 1 - January 15: sign up
January 11 - April 5: Challenge open
April 5 - April 19: Final scores + Rewards

The Board
Let's have a quick look at the board first.

You will find eight groups of prompts, four stations, one starting point (go!), one jail, four x chance, and two wildcards.

Every street and every station comes with two prompts.
Every street comes with a minimum to earn points.
Every station comes with a fixed requirement.
Stopping at the starting point will bring you three extra points.
Stopping at the jail will offer you the choice to move on (in this case, you can post only one work) or to skip the week.
Stopping at a chance square will offer you a 'secret chance'.
Wildcards will allow you to create two free works of your choice.

For the board and the play table go here.

Signing up
If you want to play, you need to sign up here until January 15, 23.59 UTC.

Let's play
On January 11, I will roll the dice for you for the first time. Check out the dice list and then go to the play table to find your prompts, the minimum, and the possible points.

You have three options to play:
Use one prompt for one work.
Use both prompts for two works. (Fandoms and worktypes can differ.)
Use both prompts in one work. (Important: you must double the given minimum; you will earn points for work 1+2.)

On January 18, I will roll the dice again, and you will move on to the next square.

Points
There are different ways to earn points for this challenge.

1. Regular Challenge
You can create up to 2 works per week.
You will earn 2-6 points for your first work and 1-3 points for your second work. If you use both prompts in one work, you can earn 3-9 points.

2. Extra Points:
Stopping at 'Go' = 3 extra points; the dice are rolled again

A Row of Streets / Four Stations
Complete a row of streets (3 of the same color) or four Stations, and you will earn some extra points.
Easy (2 / 3 points per street) = 2 extra points
Difficult (4 / 5 points per street) = 3 extra points
Stations = 4 extra points

3. You can earn even more points by participating in the Team Challenge.
The Team Challenge is optional for everyone who wants to create more than two works a week. Check out the information post here..

Joker Card
At the beginning of the challenge, everyone gets one Joker Card with 15 tokens.
You can use these tokens in different ways:
1. Missed week - use three tokens, and you can post up to two belated works for your missed prompts.
2. Roll the dice again - use two tokens and I will roll the dice again.
3. Move to a different square - use five tokens to move to any square of your choice (exception: go!, chance, jail)
tbc

Posting
Every work should be new and not be posted anywhere before. You can re-post / re-use it for other communities later.
Every work should be completed (single chapters are okay as long as they work as stand-alone ficlets).

You have seven days to post your finished works at fandom_empire_workplace The official posting ends every Sunday, 17.00 UTC, but I will allow belated works until I've made the closing post).
Use a header and a cut (for works bigger than 2 icons or 1 haiku) or a header and a link if you prefer to post elsewhere, like AO3.

AO3 Collection
The AO3 Collection for Monopoly 26 can be found here. (will be added later)

Questions?
Leave a comment here. Or send me, prisca, a PM.

Monopoly 2026 - Sign up

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Thank you for your interest in the Monopoly 2026 challenge. To participate, leave a comment on this post. The sign-up is open until January 15, 23.59 UTC


We will have an optional Team Challenge again. To sign up, please visit the Team Challenge rules.

If you have any questions, you can leave them here. Or send me, prisca a PM.