Monopoly Strategies

Strategies for Monopoly

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:

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  • 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.
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  • 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.

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