It took me way too long to realize how fucked up it is that you build houses on your properties and as soon as you collected enough rent money evict all those families, tear down the houses and build a hotel instead.
The best way to win the game is actually to aggressively build houses and never upgrade to hotels. I’m pretty sure that the rules as written don’t allow anyone to buy houses if there’s not any house pieces left so if you can get a bunch of the cheaper properties and max out houses you can stop any of the rest of the players from being able to jack up the rent on their properties.
Correct. I have recited this in a million contexts over the last 20 years… the first sentence in Business 101 textbook: “there is scarcity” and therefore all the shit that has followed
Also dark blue at the end of the board for their one-hit kill chance.
Basically the equivalent to getting seriously ill in the US. Can’t do shit about it, but your pleasant life (if existing) ends right there.
Those are actually quite bad imo, very expensive to build up and people very rarely land on them, that’s why I like brown, they seem to get more hits and very cheap to build up
I’d aim for the light blues. It’s cheap to get hotels on em early. But honestly, even winning isn’t particularly fun. Cause in my experience, everyone knows who’s gonna win like 2 hours before the game is actually over.
Oh we played with ALL the house rules. Fines on Free Parking, substitute pieces for houses when they ran out, per-determined trading periods, all so we could maintain some vaguely stable hierarchy of monopolies that inexorably lurch toward the one at the top winning. I’m sure I’ve never played actual Monopoly.
Yeah, all those things drag the game out. We did the money goes into free parking thing and all our games dragged out 6+ hours as well when I was a kid.
Played it by the rules as an adult and it went pretty fast.
I’ve never seen anyone play Monopoly by the rules as written because anyone who cares enough about board games to follow all of the rules isn’t interested in playing games like Monopoly.
ok but this one assumes people follow a very specific rule that most people who play don’t even know
every time you want to use this strategy people will assume they can simply add houses and you will have to point out the rule and probably prove that it’s an actual rule and then you are the jerk who insists to play by the rules
also there’s a difference between raw and rai and I’m pretty sure that the makers intended you to want to upgrade to hotels
It took me way too long to realize how fucked up it is that you build houses on your properties and as soon as you collected enough rent money evict all those families, tear down the houses and build a hotel instead.
The best way to win the game is actually to aggressively build houses and never upgrade to hotels. I’m pretty sure that the rules as written don’t allow anyone to buy houses if there’s not any house pieces left so if you can get a bunch of the cheaper properties and max out houses you can stop any of the rest of the players from being able to jack up the rent on their properties.
Correct. I have recited this in a million contexts over the last 20 years… the first sentence in Business 101 textbook: “there is scarcity” and therefore all the shit that has followed
Also always buy Orange as they are tile most frequently landed on
Also dark blue at the end of the board for their one-hit kill chance. Basically the equivalent to getting seriously ill in the US. Can’t do shit about it, but your pleasant life (if existing) ends right there.
Those are actually quite bad imo, very expensive to build up and people very rarely land on them, that’s why I like brown, they seem to get more hits and very cheap to build up
I’d aim for the light blues. It’s cheap to get hotels on em early. But honestly, even winning isn’t particularly fun. Cause in my experience, everyone knows who’s gonna win like 2 hours before the game is actually over.
If you follow the rules the game should take less than 2 hours unless nobody gets a set to start building houses and everyone refuses to trade.
Oh we played with ALL the house rules. Fines on Free Parking, substitute pieces for houses when they ran out, per-determined trading periods, all so we could maintain some vaguely stable hierarchy of monopolies that inexorably lurch toward the one at the top winning. I’m sure I’ve never played actual Monopoly.
Yeah, all those things drag the game out. We did the money goes into free parking thing and all our games dragged out 6+ hours as well when I was a kid.
Played it by the rules as an adult and it went pretty fast.
this strategy assumes people follow the raw, which usually isn’t the case
I’ve never seen anyone play Monopoly by the rules as written because anyone who cares enough about board games to follow all of the rules isn’t interested in playing games like Monopoly.
Every strategy based on the rules assumes people follow the rules.
ok but this one assumes people follow a very specific rule that most people who play don’t even know
every time you want to use this strategy people will assume they can simply add houses and you will have to point out the rule and probably prove that it’s an actual rule and then you are the jerk who insists to play by the rules
also there’s a difference between raw and rai and I’m pretty sure that the makers intended you to want to upgrade to hotels