Advance to Boardwalk is a spin-off of the Parker Brothers board game Monopoly. Like its progenitor, its setting is the real-estate world in Atlantic City, New Jersey, but focuses only on the boardwalk area. It involves the building of hotels, which are constructed by the various players who place markers to indicate the growing floors of the hotels. More than one player can have floors in a given hotel, but much like Monopoly, advantages can be gained by owning all the floors in a given hotel.

Cards, collected regularly, allow players to take advantage of construction bonuses, natural disasters, and other events to add and remove floors. Each floor has a given value; each player's position is equal to their net worth in hotel floors. The first player to pass $35 million (?) in worth wins the game.