Eps 1651: How to win Monopoly without losing your friends
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Monopoly is partly strategy, partly luck, as every now and then, you will need a die roll to come up with just the right numbers. Monopoly is a game of ownership, where the main goal is to gain ownership, and eventually, bankrupt your opponents. Creating a monopoly at several locations is the goal of the game, since one will need to obtain all properties in a color, and build upon them.
Six properties with three houses would provide more than half the houses available in the Monopoly, while four houses per property would provide 75% of the total supply. If you plan on building three houses in one property, you will have a good chunk of houses. By owning 3 houses per street, you will increase the chances that players will come onto your property and owe you money.
In late-game Monopoly, wait until the rest of the players have landed on your properties and paid you back rent. When you push for a cash payout, you get to watch as the other players sell off houses and mortgage their lands in order to pay you, the monopoly owner. Later on, Monopoly, when other players are desperate and offer you lots of money for property, you will sell them the property for what you know is going to be a lot of money, and that is going to drive them out of business real fast.
By the time you spend all your money, the game is over, and your property has done nothing for you. Eventually, everybody else will spend money on properties, but they cannot build them properly, since you will own most of the homes.
Spend what you can, because saving up -- particularly in the beginnings of Monopoly, when not many properties will have houses or hotels -- does nothing for you. You need to go the other way, investing in houses and hotels slowly, so you will have cash to tide you over the course of the game, but also properties that will pay off handsomely, making you even more money.
If you are choosing between adding a fourth house or starting construction on another monopoly, begin buying houses to make money for other properties. Buy every single property that lands, e.g., even if you need to mortgage the other properties in order to have cash. If you are short anyway, do not be afraid to mortgage other properties in order to build at least three homes for each qualifying square footage.
That way, the financial pain is maximized if it is assessed to fix roads, or it is required to do overall property repairs once you have hit the community chest or chance -- in those scenarios, three and four houses are worth more than a single hotel . While, yes, the hotel will generate more rent, the whole point is to decrease the available housing supply in Monopoly, such that competitors cannot put houses onto their properties, making you the biggest moneymaker. If you are focused on buying hotels, you are leaving the door open for your opponents to purchase houses -- and this can hurt you at the endgame.
Once you have got the Monopoly in play, prison is about as good a place as you can get, because as long as you are sitting on the high ground, your opponents are still there hoping to land your own properties . Stay in Jail for as long as possible If an opponent has a monopoly by this time in Monopoly, moving across the board is probably going to cost you. This may sound counterintuitive, but if you end up in jail later on in Monopoly, with hotels filling up the board, you may be able to save money by staying there all three turns until you are released from prison.
Earlier in Monopoly, taking property instead of cash when your opponent falls in on one of your developed squares could have been useful. In the official rulebook, if a player lands on a property and does not want it, the property goes directly into an auction. Instead, if you land on a property and do not want it, it remains unowned until someone who does want to purchase it lands on it.
If you really are becoming the Rainbow Collector, then hopefully you are making a bunch of honest trades amongst your opponents at the very least, in order to speed up your boardgames Monopoly; if you do not, you are starting to see fire in their eyes. The one exception to the rule mentioned above is if you have to get some out-of-the-way properties in order to keep your opponents from filling out their color groups in order to execute the above strategy.
My usual strategy is to avoid Monopoly at first, but make sure to download all of your images on imgur if you are looking to get the hang of winning.