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.
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.
that’s the entire point of monopoly.
unfortunately in the real world you still need somewhere to sleep after you flip the board over.
Yes, now you understand it. Go visit Atlantic City, you’ll see it in action.
But you don’t get UBI/collect $200 every trip around a month to keep the game going a little longer. So it’s much worse than this.
Only for capitalists!
For everyone stuck in the game. The problem with “capitalism” isn’t voluntary market exchanges. It is corrupted markets from hierarchical power discrepancies. UBI, as the power to say no, solves the structural desperation imposed on people threatened by starvation. The monopoly analogy is slightly distorted because there is still some undeveloped land that can compete with existing housing affordability.
