How to Play Pay Day

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Windy St. George and this is how to play Pay Day. Pay Day's board is set up like a calendar, from 1 to 31 being the pay day. Before you play, you agree on how many months of, how many months you're going to play for. The more months you pick, the longer the game will be. For about four people, you want 4-6 months which will be about an hour split. Every one chooses a color and they start on "Start" which is the Sunday before the first, which is Monday, and you roll die and you move that many places. If you land on a "Deal" square you get to, you get a chance to buy a deal such as a pizza place. You would pay 8,000 out of your pocket and if you ever made it to a square that said "You found a buyer" then you could sell this card for $12,000. The best way to make money in Pay Day is to invest these deals. If you don't have $8,000 on you, you can borrow it from another player or from the bank. If you borrow it from the bank, you must borrow in $1,000 increments and every pay day you must pay 10% of your loan at least back to the bank. You can also borrow from another player but then you could set up your own terms for that sort of loan. The other spots on the board are mail which means that you would have to pick up one of the blue mail cards. Now, usually bills they're sometimes ads or junk mail and then nothing happens to you. If it's a bill, you must pay it. This one here is for $300. If you don't have the money, again, you must borrow it from the bank at a loan. One person is the banker and one person is the loan keeper. The loan keeper writes down your name and how much loans you have in your name at a time. At the end of all the months that you've agreed to play, you count up the money and whoever has the most money wins. If you ever roll a 6, that's a jackpot, and you get all the money that has been placed on jackpot at certain other times of the game money has put in to the jackpot, or certain letters will make you send money to a friend. That money goes on to a jackpot and then whoever gets a 6 or lands on one of the jackpot spots, gets to take that money. There different things like you have to buy groceries or you have a chance to put money in for a lottery and then a chance to win the money from the jackpot if you do that. That's how you play Pay Day."