Get ready for a summer adventure like no other as the streets of Leeds come alive with the world’s first city-wide MONOPOLY experience as the iconic family board game will take over the city, providing immersive gameplay for the whole family.

Free and family-friendly, the MONOPOLY Leeds Takeover invites players to explore 22 key locations, solve puzzles, play mini-games and discover giant tokens scattered across eight themed zones. Grab a map from these locations and join the fun—it’s time to play MONOPOLY like never before.

The MONOPOLY Leeds Takeover, brought to the city by LeedsBID and under license from Hasbro, a leading toy and game company, is a unique event celebrating Leeds’ rich gaming heritage while offering activities, entertainment and prizes for all ages.

Combining key elements of the traditional game with the feel of a scavenger hunt, the MONOPOLY Leeds Takeover will take you on an adventure across the city centre. Key locations and landmarks across Leeds city centre will be featured as the board, with giant tokens, clues, games and puzzles around every corner for players to discover and solve.

The city centre will be mapped out like the MONOPOLY board and divided up into coloured zones – each with its own life-size MONOPOLY token housed in key retail locations. People can hunt down the battleship, boot, duck, iron, racing car, scottie dog, top hat and wheelbarrow .

Like the board game, the MONOPOLY Leeds Takeover includes real streets – a total of 22 across the city centre – in addition to incorporating key transport locations, such as Leeds City Station, Leeds Bus Station, Wellington Place Lifting Tower and Leeds Dock Water Taxi. The game’s utilities are also represented with photo opportunities like a floating tap and light bulb, along with a cell, where people can ‘Go to Jail.’

To participate, players can simply pick up a map of the city, which highlights the main game areas, and then choose how to play their own game, with numerous starting points, games to play and attractions to visit.

The overall challenge is to complete a series of puzzles on the back of the map as people work their way around the game, with clues hidden in plain sight across key locations. In addition, each property has a value, which can be added up to work out how much it will take to buy back the city.

Students from the Leeds Conservatoire, posing as characters inspired by the MONOPOLY tokens, will act as guides at each zone to help with the game, check puzzles and hand out stamps for correct answers.

There’s an assortment of prizes up for grabs at the Community Chest and Chance locations, as well as getaway prize packages at the red hotel found at The Junction.

MONOPOLY will continue its takeover of the city with additional activities, including weekend workshops in Waterstones, hosted by the Bank of England, and mathematical games for those visiting MathsCity, an interactive discovery centre in the heart of Leeds.

Find out more at MONOPOLYLeeds.com and across social media platforms @MONOPOLYLeeds.