Is it just buy everything you can, even if it means mortgaging everything, or should you hold out for the prime locations?
Damn this game now on the ipod!

On the normal board game, do what my kids do. They volunteer to be the banker and dip into the banks money when needed.

Just like normal bankers then! 😕

Old Kent Rd and Whitechapel, get hotels on there asap, cheap to set up and everyone lands on them. Light blues too to get one side and create a minefield. When the cash rolls in start buying greens.

Thats what my old man reckoned and he always beat me as a nipper.

CHU……..CHING!

I have tried to line up a whole side of properties to trap the AI player but he always lands lucky (???!?!?!?!?) buy rolling to land on chance or community chest and avoid the rent. I suspect that the dice rolling software ain’t fully random?

“AI” in computer games rarely means real artificial intelligence. It usually just means “cheats”.

I’ve not as yet got round to playing ‘Ghettopoly’ – would like to play with the Pimp playing piece and build crack houses.

Always go for the orange, on a normal game you are most likely to get people land on these.

How about EdnaKrabopoly? Or Gallipolopoly?

I always bought the stations and utilities, plus pick up random bits and bobs that look tasty with a view to doing some side deals with other players to secure full sets.

Not sure that works on the computer version though…

Generally whoever buys most first wins unless they are really unlucky, in my experience.

Buy the jail and turn it into a crack and whore house.

Buy everything you can. Mortgage to do so if required.
Try to get long rows of consectutive properties.
Get some hotels on your most expensive ones first. When other players can’t afford the rent, take a property form them in lieu. When that starts to happen you are sorted.

There is some mathmatical formula based on the most likely thrown numbers. So for example, if you roll 1 and 1, you get 2. You can only get 2 on that combination. To roll a 3, you cando 2 and 1 or 1 and 2 on the dice, so theres 2 combos. Anyway, the most likely outcome of a dice throw is 9, and with chance/community chest theres a number of ways to get to go, so the light blues are a good bet as “most likely to land on”.

Given the propensity to go to jail, for all the rule breeches like 3 doubles being rolled or chance cards, again, the orange houses are good.

There are other factors which skew it – but essentially you often have to hope that a player lands on a properly and has to auction as they have no funds, to aquire, so buy everything isn’t always the be all and end all of the game, in much the same way as having Park Lane and Mayfair are only 2 in a set, and despite being expensive to land on with hotels, do not repay the cost benefit analysis of say, the yellow set.

There is some mathmatical formula based on the most likely thrown numbers. So for example, if you roll 1 and 1, you get 2. You can only get 2 on that combination. To roll a 3, you cando 2 and 1 or 1 and 2 on the dice, so theres 2 combos. Anyway, the most likely outcome of a dice throw is 9, and with chance/community chest theres a number of ways to get to go, so the light blues are a good bet as “most likely to land on”.

the most likely number to get is 7. chances of getting a 7 are 1 in 6. chances of getting a 9 are 1 in 9

the purple/orange area is good, as it nabs everyone who goes to jail, as well as the chance card about whitechapel road

do what my kids do. They volunteer to be the banker and dip into the banks money when needed.

Thats what I used to do as a kid, it led to me getting my front teeth kicked out. Not been a big fan of monopoly since.

Hoard your cash and wait until people mortgage their stuff, then buy the mortgages, bundle them together with student and car loans to create consolidated debt obligations. Get Standard and Poor to rate these CDOs as highly as possible (why wouldn’t they refuse a AAA rating when you’re their biggest customer?), and sell the CDOs to financial institutions, hedge funds, local councils etc. Wait for the global financial system to reach the precipice as people slowly realise leveraging debt well beyond realistic limits is plain stupid and people fail to pay off their loans. Sit back and await the bail outs to roll in and your opponents to lose everything they have worked for. Offer them lip service about the failures of previous governments to regulate properly and excuses about everyone doing it. Pay yourself a massive bonus and retire.

http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/monopoly/monopoly.shtml#Long_term

as having Park Lane and Mayfair are only 2 in a set, and despite being expensive to land on with hotels, do not repay the cost benefit analysis of say, the yellow set.

But, there is always the chance card: “Proceed to Mayfair”….

My usual tactic is hotels on the browns (if nothing else, removing the M200 just as a player passes go is quite satisfying). Early in the game, getting a few train stations gets you some disproportionately high rent compared to un-developed plots. This comes in handy to buy up other plots at auction.

http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/monopoly/monopoly.shtml#Long_term

WTF?!? It’s in American!

well duur. Not that difficult to cross reference the property groups with the English board 😉

Best way to win is to not bother playing in the first place imo – shite game, goes on for far too long.

Hoard your cash and wait until people mortgage their stuff, then buy the mortgages, bundle them together with student and car loans to create consolidated debt obligations. Get Standard and Poor to rate these CDOs as highly as possible (why wouldn’t they refuse a AAA rating when you’re their biggest customer?), and sell the CDOs to financial institutions, hedge funds, local councils etc. Wait for the global financial system to reach the precipice as people slowly realise leveraging debt well beyond realistic limits is plain stupid and people fail to pay off their loans. Sit back and await the bail outs to roll in and your opponents to lose everything they have worked for. Offer them lip service about the failures of previous governments to regulate properly and excuses about everyone doing it. Pay yourself a massive bonus and retire.

Brilliant! 🙂

Thats what I used to do as a kid, it led to me getting my front teeth kicked out. Not been a big fan of monopoly since.

You had harsh parents 😯

Be the banker, if that fails to secure victory get up for a pee and ‘accidentally’ kick the board forcing a restart/abandonment.

You had harsh parents

Made me the man I am today!

No, I was neglected by two working parents, so was mostly reared by a child minder up the road (in fact 35 years later she’s still looking after me!). It was her daughter that kicked me in the face, thats how the game degenerates when kids are left to play it on their own.

Its a horrible game, it goes on too long and it ends badly – lengthy gloat of the soon to be winner, others bored because they lost half an hour ago and the games still running. The the winning player gets bored because the other players have wandered off and nobody is watching him win.

Cheap-ass games re-rule existing games and make them work better, some nice game theory involved and they are great at creating pace in a game. Something that monopoly lacks in buckets.. ’Kill Doctor Lucky’ for instance reverses the premise of Cluedo – you have to commit a murder rather than solve one, and its very, very good.

Sadly longer available though is ‘Vegas’ which re-worked Monopoly as a gambling rather than real-estate game. Its an alternative set of rules that you play with the money and counters from monopoly and a deck of plying cards. In the place of properties you have casinos, and you gamble a fixed stake rather than pay rent when you land on them, the gambles are games of chance with a house advantage that mimic those in real casino games. Much more entertaining to play, buy more importantly has a much better pace, plays out in a fairly fixed period of time and it builds to a crescendo rather than peters out, and every one us still playing, and any of them could still win, right up to the end.

Much better game and so far no tooth loss.

Buy everything & develop the Park Lane – Mayfair – Old Kent Road – Whitechapel area. The other players only have to land on them once or twice and they are toast.

If you use these tactics no-one but your iPod will play with you.

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http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/monopoly/monopoly.shtml#Long_term
WTF?!? It’s in American!

Well the original game WAS American – it was just licensed in the UK by Waddington’s IIRC.

Get the railway stations. You need all 4, and then the charges for landing on any of them are huge. The AI players always give them up in auctions.