How Do I Play Romanceopoly?

So, you know what Romanceopoly is, you have your printables ready. Now it’s time to play! Welcome to the fictional city of Romanceopolis, where meet cutes abound and there’s romance and libraries around every corner.  

Each neighborhood (grouped by colors) in Romanceopolis offers up a new sub-genre to explore and each street has a unique challenge for you to tackle within that genre.  

To play, you move round the board (as described below) and where you land, you pick up the card for that street. On each card will be a reading challenge, you then read a book matching that challenge. Once you’ve done that you’ve completed that square and you can cross if off on your progress tracker.  

There are number of different options, which we talk about below which will help you customise this challenge to your comfort levels, including of how much time you have and how much flexibility you want with your challenges. The options explained below are: 

• How you move around the Romanceopoly board 
• Challenge difficulty 
• Number of challenges 

How to Move Around the Romanceopoly Board

Movement is always in a clockwise direction, but there are two ways you can move around the Romanceopoly board: 

The Direct route 

There are no dice required to play Romanceopoly this way.   

Starting at Go, you explore Romanceopolis one street at a time, never skipping a square and coming back to it. Instead, you go around the board in order, one street at a time. 

The Scenic route 

This is the more traditional route that will require dice – or die, it’s up to you! 

Starting at Go, roll the dice and move yourself forward the number of squares you have rolled. Wherever you land is the challenge you will be facing.  

If you’re using two dice and roll a double (both die show the same number) you have a choice: roll again and take a chance on what your next challenge will be or stick to the square you have landed on.  

Using this method you are likely to go round the board a few times so: 

• If you land on a square you have already completed, go to the next unread square 

Romanceopoly Challenge Options

We appreciate that sometimes there just isn’t enough time to complete everything, or you really just don’t like the trope or particular challenge that you’ve landed on. So, there are options when it comes to the difficulty of the challenge and the number of challenges you set yourself. 

Challenge Difficulty 

Each card has two options that you can choose to make the challenge easier or more challenging for you: 

• You read any book in the genre specified on the card 
• You complete the reading challenge (prompt) stated on the card within the genre specified on the card 

The exception to this is the Library card, which is free choice – read whatever you want in any genre! 

Number of Challenges

You will notice that there are two types of challenge cards:  

• Coloured neighbourhood cards – there are 22 of these 
• Non-neighbourhood cards: Around Town, Corner and Seasonal cards – there are 14 of these 
• All challenge cards – 36 in total 

If you want to reduce the number of book books you want to do for this challenge rather than doing both types of cards, just to one type of the other. If you find you have more time, you can always come back and start on the other cards!