Property Rush dev log: letting players mortgage before they buy

Our latest test pass on Property Rush found one moment that went wrong: you land on a city you want, you can't quite afford it, and the buy card leaves you two choices, buy or let it go to auction. A player with money tied up in cities they could mortgage had no way to do that first, so the city went to auction.

So the buy card now folds. Tap outside it, or press "Mortgage a property first", raise the cash, then come back and buy. Small change, but it is the difference between a game that feels fair and one that feels like it tricked you.

Three other fixes from the same pass:

• Trade cash is a slider in steps of ten, with plus and minus buttons, instead of a free number box.
• Pawns keep off the band on built streets, so a hotel never sits on someone's head.
• The dice settle clear of the pawns.

The game is a property-trading board game for 2 to 6 players. Rent you can't pay becomes a debt you work off, and games run to the last player standing. It also plays on playboardit.com, where a table is one five-letter code away.

Property Rush is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro.