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- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -7/+183C'mon, grandma! It's 4 in the morning!
- MatttK, on 10/12/2007, -6/+89Yeah, that's in the rules. We tried this for a bit among friends and family but, to be honest, it causes too much troubles. It isn't very sporting. People end up trying to sneak their turn in while another player is talking to somebody else, etc.
Yeah, it is your fault for not paying attention but, come on... it is Monopoly, not real life. Be a good sport. - DarkElf109, on 10/12/2007, -1/+75Nope, it's a rule. I don't have a box cover on hand right now, but I specifically remember reading that the property owner has to explicitly request payment of rent. Otherwise, you're off the hook.
- Firemeboy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+73I don't know what is worse, playing monopoly, or reading strategy guides about playing monopoly.
- deucer, on 10/12/2007, -12/+68Instead of pinching the bills, why not just take them? That makes no sense.
- Dhalgren, on 10/12/2007, -8/+59Woofcat is a term for someone who never gets the joke.
- crash331, on 10/12/2007, -4/+45I'll make it easier and show you my secret.
Step 1 - Be the banker
Step 2 - Cheat - canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -5/+44step 2- don't buy the blues, yellows, or greens
step 3- make sure and buy 1 blue, 1 yellow, and 1 green
huh?
the best way to guarantee a win- make sure you take on the role as banker and pinch a few bills when nobody is looking - armbar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40Either one takes at least 6 consecutive days to complete, so just toss a coin.
- mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36if u sit down and actually read the monopoly rules theres all kinds of things in there that u dont realize... people have been playing by word of mouth for so many years that some of the actual gameplay is forgotten or changed...
- omelette, on 10/12/2007, -4/+36People finish Monopoly?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Step 1: Buy everything you can.
Step 2: Build as much as you can.
Step 3: ?
Step 4: Profit! - gwalbridge, on 10/12/2007, -15/+40"C'mon, grandma! It's 4 in the morning!"
You win! I'm sittin on Baltic with crap! I'm payin luxury taxes out the ass, and I hate when you're the banker... where'd you get the pink 50's you cheating whore?! Don't ***** touch me Grandpa, Nana is a cheating whooore!
Maaan, gotta love Dane Cook. Diggin tidu for the awesome reference. - oGMo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25How about reading CRAPPY strategy guides for monopoly? Because this is about the crappiest guide possible.
"Keep an eye on other players. Don't let on if they take a property you really want."
What? Yeah, and how am I supposed to execute this "strategy"? Load the dice? Club them if they land on property I want? Utter crap.
Real strategy would be spending strategies (big $$ vs quick payoff), how much money to keep on hand, average house/hotel payoff per property, and similar things. Actual hard numbers. Not "try to cheat people out of money," "try to get what you want," and "try to buy some property."
LAME. - Slinker, on 10/12/2007, -17/+39Use the rules to your advantage. If you land on a property, don't automatically hand over the rent. If two people roll the dice after your turn and no one notices, you're off the hook.
Where is that in the rules? Sounds like a house rule. - CornStarch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24Where does it say 2 turns have to go by for you to be off the hook for rent? I've always understood it to be one turn.
Anyways the whole guide is pretty lame. - missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Wrong. It's one turn, not two. Maybe someone should have read the book?
Hm. Snatch up all the property you can, but don't spend too much money doing it. Sounds like some pretty amazing advice right there.
To be fair, there was a little strategy included, like buying red or orange properties, but the rest was pretty crappy.
Why am I constantly seeing tips and guides that offer little more advice than, "Don't suck"? - shadgenki, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20"The only way to win is not to play".
- Zedtech, on 10/12/2007, -12/+28@Crash331 - you forgot some steps.
How to win at monopoly:
Step 1 - Be the banker
Step 2 - Cheat
Step 3 - ??????
Step 4 - PROFIT! - dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -1/+168) When another player gets up to use the bathroom/etc, grab as much paper from their side of the board as possible (with it looking obvious).
Works every time... >__> - ClassicJBC, on 10/12/2007, -18/+33@tidu
Points for the Dane Cook reference. But you left out, "***** this game!" - Judgement, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Did anybody else find this strategy to be a little bit stupid?
- mercuryswitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Technically, a hyphenated word is only one word.
- CamoChris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14According to the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)
"The layout of the "special" squares on the board (that is, the non-property squares), as well as the dice-roll probabilities, mean that not all squares have an equal probability of being landed upon." & "seven is the most probable roll" & "For this reason, Park Place is one of the least landed-on squares as the square seven places behind it is "Go to Jail"."
So to answer your question about them being close to the jail: yes. - omelette, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12The games I remember were like tic tac toe or war games... No one that plays wins. Everyone just ended up wasted, tired and pissed at the one person who was paying attention and yelling at everyone to roll the dice.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -12/+22Yeah, this is a weak guide to monopoly, at best. It's wrong in several respects.
Take his #5:
-Once players owe you money, they cannot sell property. All player-to-player transactions must take place before the dice are rolled, at the beginning of the turn.
-Mortaged properties can not be bought by other players unless the owner sells the property. Doesn't make any difference if they land on it or not.
-And even then, the owner may need to sell it cheaply, since the new owner must pay 110% of the mortgage price to unmortgage it right then, or 10% to the bank at purchase time and 110% later to unmortgage it at a later time.
Or #7: There is no "two turn" rule, or even a one turn rule. You land on the property, you pay the money. Not paying is cheating.
There are some legitimate means that come in handy though.
-Buy lots of houses, but not the hotels. The bank is fixed at 32 houses and 12 hotels and no more, and if a player cannot improve to 4 houses on all properties, he cannot buy a hotel. You cannot skip this by paying for the hotel all in once, it explicitly says so in the rules. House-hoarding can thus prevent other players from improving their properties.
-Orange and red are the best properties to have.
-Yellow is actually very good to have too, just not as good as orange and red. Yellow only gives a good ROI when improved with 3 houses, orange and red only need 1 or 2 houses to make a good return.
-Buy one green property to prevent anybody getting them, because when they are improved, they are killers.
-Dark blue is safe to ignore, usually.
-Light blue is a good one to improve, but the ROI is very weak. Still, it's good for house hoarding, because it's cheap as heck to build on.
-In the early game, pay the $50 to get out of jail early. You need to be moving around the board and buying properties.
-In the late game, roll for doubles. The less you move around, the less rent you pay.
-Pressure the players for trades. Throw in some worthless bits and cash to sweeten the deal. The Get out of Jail free card is only worth $50 at best, but people have been known to be stupid about it.
-The reason the game takes so long is that people don't use the auction rules. Use them, they make the game much faster.
-In the early game, mortgage less valuable properties to buy more valuable ones. Leave them mortgaged until you need them. If you ever do.
And so on. Lots of good strategies out there. - snowpatrol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11You can play monopoly online here:
http://games.atari.com/ - headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I dunno, this seems kind of lame to me. Unless you've never played the game before, these are all just the basics. Buy as much as you can, try to keep other people from getting all of the same color, etc. Pretty basic stuff.
- CornStarch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"I thought it was that if your turn concludes then you're home free."
your turn concludes when the next person rolls the dice ie after the next turn. Either way though the guy in the link is wrong and that's what important.. - Dayz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9That guide really doesn't help you win.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13that article is just wrong, I don't know how many times I've won just because I owned boardwalk and park place.
I've lost everything except those two, but when someone hits one it hurts and with hotels you can bankrupt a person very easily if they land on it. I don't think I've ever lost if I had control of boardwalk and park place. - GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"Keep an eye on other players. Don't let on if they take a property you really want."
Oh yeah I really didn't want that last red property to complete the set. Please this is mostly nonsense. The key is to find somebody stupid and be generous with them and make out theres a stack of false advantages in making deals with you.
My favourite one is when somebody has say a yellow property and I offer to sell them the second to take them closer to holding the set along with a few other things in exchange for the third property I need. Next chance I get I buy the third yellow property off whoever holds it for a ridiculous fee.
End result I've split them up while giving myself the vital cash cow. It does require at least one moron in the game with you though. - missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Otto, not paying is not cheating. It's not nice, but the rules clearly state that if the property owner doesn't notice you've landed on his property by the time the dice are rolled for the next turn, you don't have to pay up. The rule is one turn.
- quokkapox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"Any game that uses dice is 95% luck."
You've never played Yahtzee, have you? - XxtraLarGe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9So what do you do if everybody else reads this and follows the same strategy? Also, I thought you didn't have to pay rent if the next player rolls the dice, not next two players...
- HenryFatass, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Best Digg exchange ever:
canewediggit: "the best way to guarantee a win- make sure you take on the role as banker and pinch a few bills when nobody is looking"
deucer: "Instead of pinching the bills, why not just take them? That makes no sense."
Woofcat: "Pinch is a term for steal."
Dhalgren: "Woofcat is a term for someone who never gets the joke." - CamoChris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I'm glad it tells you the colour of the properties, I've got no idea what the UK (or Star Wars or whatever other versions) equivalents of New York or Marvin Gardens would be.
- XStatic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I thought the first player was the one that landed on the property, the second player is the one that goes next, thus one roll of the dice after the landing.
- SharkJumper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9In college, we combined two games to come up with Trivialopoly. In order to qualify for buying the property you just landed on, you had to correctly answer a Trivial Pursuit question, first. Talk about a long game.
- zacharychaos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9There is definately skill in monopoly. Only people who consistently lose complain about bad luck.
Dice are only like 50% of the game. - aoe2bug, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7rarely, but sometimes you run out of money. rinse & repeat until granma wins.
- mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Railroads are killer early on especially if u can get them all right off the bat...
- aoe2bug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@vandread, you *can* win that way, but its not as reliable as a stable monopoly. (of a lot of property all over the board)
- zacharychaos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Camo just explained this.
it is not random due to the cards and the Jail. When was the last time you played monopoly? How long does it take for someone to collect all the orange ones, as opposed to the more expensive green ones? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If you're serious about Monopoly, use this guide: http://www.hasbro.com/monopoly/pl/page.da/dn/default.cfm
Dont know who wrote this wiki, but it seems to contradict itself once or twice. - GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Any game where you can make decisions is largely skill irrespective of how much luck is superficially involved. Learn to play with the hand you've been given not the hand that you want to paraphrase some moron I heard the other day.
//edit - explain why the same people dominate the world poker tour all the time. Poker involves more 'luck' than other games.// - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I had no idea beauty contests were such a deciding factor in real estate! I wouldn't mind judging a couple of community chests!
- jerryyeti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I've heard about the faults of Monopoly before and I dont doubt their veracity. It's just that telling my friends "Hey, lets go to my place and play the Settlers of Catan" would never work. Monopoly is universal. It's accepted. It's not perfect, but it conjurs up deep passions and rivalries from everytime you played it since you were a kid. Nostalgia shouldn't be discounted when comparing games.
- drgori, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Maybe people are digging it so that they can beat the people who are lured to the page and use the tips.
- jerryyeti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Railroads are great because opponents LOVE them. People will trade pretty sweet property for a railroad, that with all four will only net them $200. Sure, it's decent cash that'll keep you in the game longer, but I've gotten scores more return for the property they traded it for.
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