Much of the game of Monopoly revolves
around the roll of the dice. However, strategy is also a very large
part of the game. Below are a few of the many advantageous tips for
Monopoly Strategy:
There are only 32 houses and 12
hotels. Create a shortage when it will be to your advantage to
have other players be unable to build.
Keep track of which cards have
been played for both the Community Chest and Chance cards.
Know the odds of rolling the
dice.
Players have the highest
probability of rolling either sevens or doubles.
Typically, a player can travel
around the game board once every five to six rolls of the dice.
Jail, Illinois Avenue, New York
Avenue, GO, Reading Railroad and the B&O Railroad squares are landed on
by players more than any other squares in the game of Monopoly.
Mediterranean Avenue and Baltic
Avenue are the properties that players land on the least.
Red and orange properties have a
high probability of being landed on.
Keep track of the amount of
money each player has – it will become useful information in the
event of an auction.
Divide other players’
un-mortgaged properties by 7 to figure out approximately how
many properties they will collect rent from during one time around
the game board. For example, if other players own a total of 11
properties, you will probably land on 1.6 (round up to 2) of
those properties when you travel around the board.
Buy any property where the
following is true:
1. You are the first player to own a property in that
color-group.
2. You will own a second or third property of that color-group.
3. You can stop another player from controlling a color-group.
4. The property is from the orange color-group.
5. You can make a better trade for other properties.
When you are required to pay
income tax consider the following: Pay 10% of your assets if you
have gone around the board less than three times; or, pay 10% if
heavy rents were collected from you and you believe your assets
are less than $2000. Otherwise pay the flat rate of $200.
If you are in Jail and the game
has just begun, pay $50 to get out of Jail early – otherwise
un-owned and undeveloped properties will become too scarce.
Once the majority of the
properties are owned, being in Jail will prevent you from paying
rent – if you go there, stay there.
Build houses and hotels as soon
as you own a complete color-group.
Build if you can bankrupt an
opponent late in the game.
Build on the most expensive
property of a given color-group first (you can collect higher
rent that way).
Focus on building hotels on the
low rent properties.
If houses are not available for
others to build, never sell houses to upgrade to a hotel if it
means that an opponent will be able to develop a high rent
property.
Mortgage single properties first
(ones where you only own one card out of a color-group).
When mortgaging properties, do
so in the following order:
1. Properties in the closest proximity to the GO square, on the
cheap side of the board.
2. A lone utility.
3. A lone railroad.
4. Other utilities. These should be the last to go because they
are great ways to earn money.
Mortgage Illinois Avenue last
because players land on it more often than other squares.
Lift mortgages in the reverse
order that they were mortgaged and only if you can afford to do
so.
Never let a player slip out of
your grip If you are ahead and have a chance to bankrupt that
player. You may not have that chance again.
