Start your city
Continue with Google to keep your cities across devices, or open Guest play to create a city or join with a city code. Guest seats are saved in that browser. New entry requires separate adult and agreement confirmations; read the current Terms and Privacy Notice before accepting. Each player starts with 1500 in fictional currency and chooses one of ten professions, each with its own ability.
Bring friends or play with bots
Choose 4, 5 or 6 seats and invite friends. Bots are computer-controlled players. Bots mode fills open seats when your group is ready. Both searches for online players first and fills remaining seats with bots after 30 seconds. Online players waits for enough people and does not add bots. Friends in a ready group stay together. Invitation links still require the recipient's explicit acceptance.
Take your turn
Roll the die, move and resolve the tile where you land. New cities allow 60 seconds for an ordinary human roll and 30 for a bonus roll; the server rolls when the timer expires. Most optional choices and bank visits allow 60 seconds; choosing a Duel challenge allows 30. Finishing a nonbank choice starts a 10-second End turn window. Chat and navigation do not extend these timers. Existing saved cities keep their saved timing rules.
Buy, upgrade and trade
Buy available properties and collect rent when rivals visit. Later visits to your own house, apartment or hotel can offer upgrades through level 3; upgrades cost fictional money and increase rent and property value. After paying rent you may offer to buy the visited property. Player trade prices must stay between 80% and 120% of its current value. A voluntary city sale returns 90%; a forced sale returns 70%. Negotiated prices are private to the buyer and seller. Bots can make different choices.
Keep a reserve
Cash, bank savings, loans, shares and taxes all matter. Your lap salary decreases as your own laps progress, eventually giving way to city costs. Voluntary purchases use available cash and then savings, without automatically borrowing or forcing property sales. Compulsory debts can use savings, shares and necessary property sales. If a required debt still cannot be paid, that player becomes bankrupt and may watch the city. Exact quotes and detailed financial rules remain available inside the game.
Expect a change of fortune
The Wheel, Lottery, Duel, Prison and Teleport can change your plans. The Wheel offers one free spin per visit. Lottery tickets cost 5 fictional units, and draws occur at completed official-turn boundaries of 50, 100, 150 and so on when tickets exist. A Duel is an in-game challenge with its own countdown and rules; passing an unresolved Duel landing costs 100 under compulsory-payment rules. These are game mechanics, not real-money gambling or a way to earn income.
Lantern Casino
Everyone active joins when the visitor starts poker. You may fold during the hand. Only fictional, nonredeemable game money is used.
Start one hand with every active player, or pass for 50. Blinds 25/50; everyone can bet up to 500, regardless of cash or savings.
You receive two private cards. Make your best five-card hand from these and the five shared cards; you may use either, both or neither private card.
Blinds 25/50 are mandatory for two rotating seats; no ante. Betting happens before the flop, after the three-card flop, the turn and the river.
Fast fixed-limit rules: opening bets and raises are 50 before/on the flop and 100 on turn/river. At most two full raises per round. A short all-in does not reopen a previous raiser.
You have 20 seconds per decision, including while reading this guide. When time runs out: check if free, otherwise fold.
Every active player has a 500-chip limit, regardless of cash or savings. Nothing is reserved at entry. Only the final net loss is collected: cash, savings, necessary whole shares, then forced property sales at 70% of current value. Fold to limit your loss to chips already bet. Unpaid debt causes bankruptcy; winners receive only money actually collected, split on a tie.
Check: stay without paying when no bet is owed. Call: match the bet. Raise: increase it. Fold: leave the hand and forfeit chips already bet.
Strongest first. Equal combinations use kickers; suits have no rank. Exact ties split the pot. An all-in player can win only pots they contributed to.
Poker hand rankings
- Royal flush
- Straight flush
- Four of a kind
- Full house
- Flush
- Straight
- Three of a kind
- Two pair
- One pair
- High card
Know how the city ends
The default winner is the last active player. Optional endings at 1000 official turns or 10000 net worth need unanimous active-human agreement and apply at a safe turn boundary. There is no promised short match length. Use the in-game How to Play guide for detailed financial schedules, profession abilities and event rules.
Pause and return safely
In cities that started with several human players, use a group pause vote or a personal break before leaving. Permanent departure gives your seat to a bot and may restrict new multiplayer games. Check the saved timers and session rules before leaving.
Save and pause
You are the only human in this city. Pause whenever you want, without a vote or penalty. Continue with I’m ready.
Your city pauses after the current movement or shared event finishes, without takeover or penalty. Solo guest cities archive after 7 days without a return; signed-in solo cities after 30 days. Each return to that city resets its full window.
The bots are paused. Press I’m ready to continue.