How to Play Business Game: Complete Rules

Learn the business game rules in five minutes. This guide covers everything in Bazaar Raja, the free Indian business game you can play online: buying cities, collecting rent, building houses, Jail, cards, auctions, trading and mortgages.

The goal

Every player starts with the same cash. You roll two dice, move around the board and buy Indian cities. When other players land on your cities, they pay you rent. Build houses and hotels to make the rent bigger. When a player cannot pay, they go bankrupt. The last player left is the Bazaar Raja, the king of the market.

Setting up a game

1. Open bazaarraja.in and press Play, or create a private game and share the link with friends.
2. Pick a party token or a colour, and your name.
3. The host chooses the settings (starting cash, auction, even building and more) and presses Start game.
4. The turn order is decided at random.

Your turn, step by step

1. Roll the dice. Move forward by the total.
2. Passing START pays you a salary of ₹2,000.
3. Land on an unowned city and you can buy it at its price. If you skip it, it goes to an auction where everyone can bid.
4. Land on someone else's city and you pay them rent.
5. Doubles give you another roll. Three doubles in a row send you to Jail.
6. When you are done, end your turn. You have one minute per turn, so keep it moving.

The cities and colour sets

There are 22 cities in 8 colour sets. Owning a whole colour set doubles the base rent of those cities and lets you build houses.

Rent, houses and hotels

• Each city has a base rent. Own the full colour set and the base rent doubles.
• Once you own a full set, you can build up to 4 houses and then a hotel on each city.
• With the even building rule on, you must build evenly: no city in a set can have two more houses than another.
• Rent jumps the most at the third house, so that is a smart first target.
• You can sell a house back to the bank for half its cost.

Railway stations and utilities

• Railway stations (Howrah, Egmore, CST, New Delhi) cost ₹2,000. Rent is ₹250 with one station, ₹500 with two, ₹1,000 with three and ₹2,000 with all four.
• Bijli Board and Jal Board cost ₹1,500. Rent is 40 times the dice total with one, or 100 times with both.

Special squares

• Income Tax (₹2,000) and GST (₹1,000) are paid to the bank.
• Kismat and Sarkari Yojana cards can pay you, fine you, or send you somewhere else on the board. Everyone sees the card that was drawn.
• Chai Break: with the pot rule on, taxes and fines collect here and whoever lands on Chai Break takes the whole pot.
• Go to Jail sends you straight to Jail without collecting your salary.

Jail rules

In Jail you can pay ₹500 bail before rolling, or try to roll doubles. If you fail three times, you pay ₹500 and move. You can still trade, build and collect rent while you are in Jail, unless the host turned on the "no rent from Jail" rule.

Auctions

If the player who lands on a city does not buy it, every player can bid for it. Bids go up in steps of ₹10, ₹100 or ₹500, and the highest bid when the timer runs out wins the city.

Trading and negotiation

Tap any player, then Trade. Pick the cities and cash each side gives and send the offer. The other player can accept, decline, or negotiate with a counter-offer. Trading is how most games are won: swap a city you do not need for one that completes your set.

Mortgage (girvi)

Short on cash? Mortgage a city to get half its price from the bank. A mortgaged city earns no rent until you pay it back, which costs 10% extra. You cannot build in a set that has a mortgaged city.

Bankruptcy and winning

If you owe more than you can pay, the game first mortgages your cities and sells your houses. If that is still not enough, you are bankrupt. Your cities go to the player you owe, or back to the bank. The last player standing wins.

House rules the host can switch on or off

• Double rent on a full colour set
• Auction for skipped cities
• Even building
• Hide everyone's money
• Chai Break pot
• No rent while the owner is in Jail
• Double salary for landing exactly on START
• 1-minute turn timer that removes inactive players

Prefer Hindi? Read the business game rules in Hindi.