Statistics aside, my personal favorite strategy is collecting the bottom of the board (light blues/browns) & RRs because other players can't stockpile money from passing GO since they will either pay you rent or pay the bank income tax. A nearest railroad card is brutal at $400 late and a head straight to GO card puts them directly in the line of fire. You can also cause a housing shortage very early since houses only cost $50 each on those five spaces & that's 20 houses out of the pool if you max out houses. The biggest issue is you need a lot of liquidity if general/street repairs hasn't been drawn early, otherwise you're looking at a $500/$800 bill.
Well this is a classic showcase of someone who doesnt understand what he is doing but thinks he outsmarts statistics :) People like you are the reason banks in casino make money with roulette (guys who think they are smarter than everyone but in fact the opposite is true). Also having 4 railroads is 200$ and not 400$.... Nothing against you pesonal ! Simply your strategy is to buy cheap roads that have low chance of players getting on it. Well despite the story you make up in your head statistics clearly show that this is a longterm loosing strategy. End of story
Best tip when playing with family. Loose some games! I used to dominate every game that we would play. Now my family either don’t want to play or when they di play they don’t want to trade with me or they just work together to get me out fist
My only tactic is to get the Utilities, the Railroads and aim for a monopoly with either the Oranges: St. James' Place Tennessee Ave & New York Ave, or the Reds: Kentucky Indiana & Illinois Avenues, or the Yellers Atlantic Ave Ventnor Ave & ole Marvin Gardens, or the Greens with: Pacific Avenue North Carolina & Pennsylvania Avenue. Then be patient and wait, enjoying the show.
The last time i played this, i bought all the rail roads, and practically milked my parents dry before they even got the chance to add properties to their plots
I never knew that the number of houses included in the game is the maximum that can be in play at once...I've never even heard that said before...has that always been a written rule?
Yes, creating a housing shortage has always been a part of the strategy of the game! It is in the official rules in a couple of places, but here is one quote: "When the Bank has no houses to sell, players wishing to build must wait for some player to return or sell their houses to the Bank before building. If there are a limited number of houses and hotels available and two or more players wish to buy more than the Bank has, the houses or hotels must be sold at auction to the highest bidder." Most people don't read the rules to the game, but instead learn it from others who also have not read the rules, etc. It's an unfortunate cycle, as I find games of Monopoly last 45-60 minutes if played properly...
Why would you ever let a property go to auction. Makes no sense to me. Even if your strategy is to make someone overbid, if they are willing to overpay why wouldn’t you buy it, then sell it to them for a profit
to be honest, Monopoly is a game to talk and drink beer with friends who have no clue or not interested in strategy at all, not worth it to get an edge
Oh, I see. If you don't have clue and your friends are not interested in Stratego. Then play Monopoly. And this will happen so infrequently that it isn't worth getting an edge. I see.
@@nedaronnax6193 A nice we? Did you mean Wii? I've upgraded to a Switch, but I don't have Clue, Stratego nor Monopoly on it at all. I'm completely confused.
My strategy is immediately after collecting a color set I mortgage everything and build as many houses as I can. Also if I have multiple color sets i mortgage the most expensive color sets and build on the least expensive color sets.
Great video! One specific tactic is something I like to call the railroad shuffle. When you own all four railroads -- especially later in the game when cash is king -- you can simply rotate which of your four railroads is unmortgaged. For instance, if the next opponent to roll is within striking distance of Reading Railroad, then you make sure that's the only unmortgaged railroad you have. It costs literally $10 to perform this swap/shuffle of unmortgaged railroads (+100 for mortgaging railroad A and -110 for unmortgaging railroad B), but the expected value on this change is almost always greater than 10 bucks and therefore a plus-side move. Rough estimates: 7 away from RR: E[V] is 200/6 ~= $33 6 or 8 away: EV is 5/36 * 200 ~= $28 5 or 9 away: EV is 1/9 * 200 ~= $22 4 or 10 away: EV is 1/12 * 200 ~= $17 3 or 11 away: EV is 1/18 * 200 ~= $11 Plus, you'll have an extra $300 liquidity to put toward things like houses.
The number 1 strategy is the scarcity strategy. I’ve never lost while using this strategy. You aim for the cheapest properties and make every effort to gain monopolies on these cheapest properties. Build as many houses as you can on as many properties as you are able to build on. Never go to hotels and you will win nearly every time you play.
Yes, that's not bad - timing is still important though. And it depends on other players and the trades they make with each other. Remember they can cause a shortage for your as well!
It's a sound plan but you have to prevent others from gaining monopolies on sets where statistically many players will land on since the cheapest ones are before the jail space. If they end up getting orange and/or red first and they set up even just 9 houses there, it doesn't matter as much if everyone else has the rest of the houses because these spaces will cash out quicker, hindering others from developing or setting their progress back from having to sell their houses.
I usually buy the light blues and browns since houses and hotels are so cheap. People think I'm bad a trading when I give them high value properties for the cheap ones. The thing is houses and hotels are only $50 and I can make up to $600 dollars off of someone who just passed go. I think I need to be better at hiding my money and being humble while playing though LOL
here is something I recommend. you should buy every property possible, this includes railroads and utilities. if other people have them trade it for some higher amounts of money. at this rate, you won't have to pay anyone anything, and if you have enough money you can purchase houses and hotels to make them pay you more eventually leading them into bankruptcy.
I had the perfect set up to win the game but the odds of rolling a 7 made everyone miss my orange properties which had 4 houses on every property pretty early… I bankrupted 1 person who had the reds but I didn’t have the money to pay them off and build houses which would’ve most likely given me an easy win if I had the money for it since everyone landed on the reds but not orange
My #1 tactic is not to buy properties immediately in the early stages but instead immediately bring them to auction. You are still allowed to bid. If your opponent is one that overpays you can deplete their cash early and snag properties dirt cheap later. If they are stingy you can gain the property for under cost. I will generally let the property go to the opponent for just below face value. That could change if I am targeting the property. This strategy works best when there is only 2 players. It is far more nuanced when there are more.
2 player games that can be good strategy. When there are 3 or more players you need to buy aggressively early game to even get a chance of getting monopoly. In 4 player game you can't afford losing buying opportunities early game. I actually like dark blue and brown streets in 4 player games since they have only 2 streets to get monopoly and other players usually see them as bad cold areas (especially browns). Most of the 4 player games those hot orange, red and yellows end up in stalemate. You can't be picky in 4 player games. If you have an opportunity to get monopoly, you will buy no matter what street it is.
My goal is always to get New York..St. James and Tennessee. In the beginning of the game I'll buy up as many properties as I can. Then I'd go for a monopoly through deals and trades to get all three of the orange ones. After that I'd mortgage all my other properties if I had to and buy houses. One time I had a monopoly on Board Walk and Park place. I also had New York and Tennessee. I traded both Board Walk and Park Place for St. James. At the time of the trade my opponent thought he was getting a really good deal. I also noticed that he didnt have the money to buy more than two houses because his houses cost $200 a peice. He didnt think I had the money to buy any houses until I mortgaged all my other properties. My houses were a $100 a peice..in a short time I was able to unmortgage all my properties and buy more houses which put my opponent into bankruptcy. Although I took a risk, the odds of landing on the orange properties are much greater than landing on Board Walk and Park Place. The orange properties are the best properties on the board.
Strategy: Get all RR's (or as many as you can), Park Place, Boardwalk, and one of each other color set. You can't lose if you accomplish this. Rent from RR's will fund your housing.
Dont follow the first strategy i followed it bought everything and even bought houses to create a house shortage then a community chest card came and it aaked me for repair work on my properties pay 25 per house owned and 100 per hotels and since i had bought lots of houses i had to pay a huge amount and thus i lost the game
Yes, that happens sometimes. Monopoly does have a large luck element to it. However, the repair card is only one card in each deck, and it depends when it comes out. The strategy you are following was still sound
Monopoly can be fun but it all depends on what kinds of people your playing against. Alot of people dont want to play by the rules, they prefer to make up their own rules. This takes all the fun out of the game. I play by the rules or I dont play at all.
Same. Unfortunately one friend I play with is extremely short sighted as far as strategy goes and almost always gives someone a winning monopoly in trade because he doesn't understand the deeper strategy.
Try Monopoly Plus on PS4 or PS5, there's an option to play with the classic board and official rules. It can be played against AI (and you can set their difficulty), or you could play locally either sharing one controller or each player uses their own controllers, or you could play online.
I generally have 1 startegy and that is to firstly get one of everything and prioritize getting a color set of Orange, Red. Once I have 1 of everything I have some trading power but since I didn't buy the other properties in the set I also got money to get the stuff I truely want. This usually leads to me winning many games but there are times where I just can't land on properties or just keep landing on bad spots and lose the game.
Seems like opening strategy is the most important phase, and you basically hedged. Should you buy everything as long as you don't have to mortgage, mortgage immediately to continue buying everything, or buy only the top 50th percentile of properties?
The opening strategy is less important than the mid game, where the trading happens, in my opinion. I am of the mind that you should buy as many properties outright as you can, as that gives you more to work with when the trading begins to happen. The only time I wouldn't buy a property is if it's a property I don't care about that much and I'm willing to potentially lose it at auction, or if I truly can't afford it.
@@LegendaryTactics sounds good. Would you mortgage stuff when low on funds to potentially buy more stuff? fwiw I was curious so I ran into someone did a python simulation and came to the conclusion u should buy everything except green and utilities. He didn't account for auctions or try the early mortgage strat tho.
Bro strat 1 did not work out for my friend. I always and I mean always landed on either my properties or the chance and community chests spots. She always landed on my properties. (She had all but 2 properties)
Boardwalk is the best property on the cool side of the board, as it has the highest raw ROI of basically any property on the board(12.5% without a monopoly, 13.3% with a monopoly, and 72.7% with a hotel when factoring in even building, compared to the 48.5% New York Avenue gets from a hotel when even building is factored in, and even barely edging out Baltic Avenue, with a 72.6% ROI from a hotel when factoring even building) and being the one on that side with the highest odds of landing on it due to the Chance or Community Chest card (I don’t remember which deck it’s in).
The statistical analysis would disagree with you. Boardwalk is one of the most expensive properties to develop - even though its ROI is good, if you can't build the houses because you're low on cash, it doesn't matter. And the oranges are landed on far more often because every player that leaves jail has to run that orange gauntlet, which is obviously a more common occurrence than drawing a single Chance/Community Chest card. Boardwalk is a great property for sure, but I'd happily trade Boardwalk to someone and give them the dark blue monopoly in exchange for completing my orange monopoly every time.
My top best strats in my opinion is there are four sets orange yellow greens and dark blues is what I mostly buy and I always auction utilities to go for the railroads but buy pinks reds to use as mortgaging sets for later or sell to your opponent for more money
2 of my friends and I played first to 15 wins. I won with 15, my other friends had 13 and 12. Yes we played that many games throughout a month and it was one of the best times.
Man I don’t get the utilities hate. I always buy them. They help me buy a house everytime somebody lands on them. It’s after the light blues which I love and right before jail so if you don’t go to jail you’ll land there or yellow. Utilities are great to buy you house and if you have both and somebody lands a big roll you’re making what 3 trains are worth. They’re also cards that force you to go to utilizes. So RESPECT UTILITIES
Ha ha, ok, ok! I respect them. But they are really only good in the early game for the most part, when you will typically recieve around $70. And the fact that the "rent" you receive from them is unpredictable makes them a bit harder to love. But I always buy them, as they can also be good to throw into a trade to sweeten it.
My friends and I play our own version to where we can put at most 2 hotels on properties (we try to end the game faster). To do this, we must pay double the first hotel. We don't go hotel and house, but rather hotel straight to double hotel. The double hotel doubles the price (one hotel on New York Avenue = $1,000 and 2 hotels = $2,000).
I took a probability course in uni but you don't need it to understand this. There's only one way to get a 12 on the die, two sixes, and theres two ways to get 11, five and a six but on opposite die, so it is more probable to get 11 than 12. By the same logic 7 is the most probable because you can get it in the most ways. The 36% to the oranges they got by adding the probabilities of the rolls from jail and so on.
A tactic I've experimented with is to try and get the two browns and blues through landing on them or through trading for a low price (acting like you don't really need them). So that later on when making a trade, add those to the offer as a bonus incentive, since players are much more likely to accept property than money. This allows you trade to get better properties for much less of the cost.
I am at the point I only want to play if there is a crazy variation of the game, we play the Space Jam new legacy which has you making $500 passing GO on the condition you make 3 basketball shots from the plastic toy backboard.. they included.. which is not easy
I bought that Monopoly game on Steam the other day and it's terrible. You can't skip Ai rolls and you can't get a top down view to see what's going on. It's just really bad.
Yes, the reviews are not good on that one. It's really too bad - you would think it would not only be easy to program, but that there would be money behind it to make sure it showcases the game well.
1 tip that's really good is try own at least one property of each color except brown, with this your opponents will not be able to get a color set or if your opponent had a property you really wanted than you could just trade
Possibly, although it is such a key part of the game, I would hope that the programmers would take it into account and make it as accurate as possible.
I mean if you look at it from a programmers perspective, the game shows you 2 separate die anyway, difference in code for it to incorporate probabilities is miniscule, so it is probable that they've done it
Thanks for the guide. I wish the people management section was longer I was confused by it. You said you could agree with one player to not charge them rent but what do you get in return?
Dark blues aren’t that good but man is it the most important piece in the game you get that then you need 1 more for a settlement it’s a really good trading piece and me personally ion mind banking on the blues easy to go self made on like idk how to explain it definitely my favorite set then pinks then yellows then greens oranges are definitely 100 percent the best get your hands on oranges and blues you pretty much won
I buy everything at the start and when i get like 3 of the orange i mortgage everything and i have houses on orange right away and they go bankrupt so u win fast and easy
I employ every single strategy from this video. I hardly ever lose a fame now. I have to work on money management and strateaving a diversified negotiating strategy.
Something that confuses me about this game is why would I put 3 houses on a street if I can put a hotwl and earn more? And how often does one need to pay a mortgage? Every round?
3 houses are the most cost-efficient boost to your rental income. You can always improve beyond that, but it isn't as efficient. And one only pays a mortgage fee whenever they un-mortgage a property.
Original price: 100 Mortgage: 50 Unmortgage: 55 That means you'll get 50 from the bank if you mortgage your property but you'll have to pay plus 10% interest which is (50 + 50 * 0.10 = 55) if you want to unmortgage it.
I have a question, when there are no more houses and I have no houses on certain properties, assuming that I can afford them, is it a good idea to build straight to hotels?
Unfortunately, you're not able to. The game specifically says that there has to be enough houses for you to build up to four houses each before converting to a hotel. This can lead to some strategy involving causing a housing shortage so your opponents can't build to the extent that they would like.
Best thing to do is own at least one color of every set. Then at some point trade to gain a color set, preferably blue or orange. I only trade when players have no money to develop their land. Example. Joe has 2 red and sally has 1, I’ll overpay for Sally’s one color to prevent joe from having a set. I won’t trade till I have enough cash to buy houses and hotels.
Some versions of the rules dont allow collecting rent while in jail. This is the frustrating part of monopoly because they seem to change the rules all the time.
Only Legendary Tactics can make an interesting, enjoyable, and comprehensive strategy guide for Monopoly! Great job guys.
Woo hoo! Thanks for this.
Statistics aside, my personal favorite strategy is collecting the bottom of the board (light blues/browns) & RRs because other players can't stockpile money from passing GO since they will either pay you rent or pay the bank income tax. A nearest railroad card is brutal at $400 late and a head straight to GO card puts them directly in the line of fire. You can also cause a housing shortage very early since houses only cost $50 each on those five spaces & that's 20 houses out of the pool if you max out houses. The biggest issue is you need a lot of liquidity if general/street repairs hasn't been drawn early, otherwise you're looking at a $500/$800 bill.
So your startegy is getting 3 sets while the opponent gets 0? Wow, groudbreaking strat
Well this is a classic showcase of someone who doesnt understand what he is doing but thinks he outsmarts statistics :) People like you are the reason banks in casino make money with roulette (guys who think they are smarter than everyone but in fact the opposite is true). Also having 4 railroads is 200$ and not 400$.... Nothing against you pesonal ! Simply your strategy is to buy cheap roads that have low chance of players getting on it. Well despite the story you make up in your head statistics clearly show that this is a longterm loosing strategy. End of story
Best tip when playing with family.
Loose some games! I used to dominate every game that we would play. Now my family either don’t want to play or when they di play they don’t want to trade with me or they just work together to get me out fist
Awesome advice and true of any games that you play with family.
I should definitely do this. My family hardly ever plays and they never trade with me now because I haven’t lost in like 10 games
@@LogiFactsForThinkerssame it sucks
My only tactic is to get the Utilities, the Railroads and aim for a monopoly with either the Oranges: St. James' Place Tennessee Ave & New York Ave, or the Reds: Kentucky Indiana & Illinois Avenues, or the Yellers Atlantic Ave Ventnor Ave & ole Marvin Gardens, or the Greens with: Pacific Avenue North Carolina & Pennsylvania Avenue. Then be patient and wait, enjoying the show.
The last time i played this, i bought all the rail roads, and practically milked my parents dry before they even got the chance to add properties to their plots
You just happened to land on all four?
@@artugert how can you land on all four?? Played the game as normal,
It’s very rare, 2 and 3 is common actually
Nice luck if you can get it...
It sounds like it!
I never knew that the number of houses included in the game is the maximum that can be in play at once...I've never even heard that said before...has that always been a written rule?
Yes, creating a housing shortage has always been a part of the strategy of the game! It is in the official rules in a couple of places, but here is one quote:
"When the Bank has no houses to sell, players wishing to build must wait for some player to return or sell their houses to the Bank before building. If there are a limited number of houses and hotels available and two or more players wish to buy more than the Bank has, the houses or hotels must be sold at auction to the highest bidder."
Most people don't read the rules to the game, but instead learn it from others who also have not read the rules, etc. It's an unfortunate cycle, as I find games of Monopoly last 45-60 minutes if played properly...
btw how do you get to the online game that is sometimes shown on screen?
Tabletop simulator on Steam
what monopoly video game was playing in the video?
It's a Steam game called Monopoly Plus - but it isn't recommended, as it is really glitchy. It looks good, though!
@@LegendaryTactics thanks! fortunately i don't have steam so i guess i'll just have to wait for a better monopoly video game
Why would you ever let a property go to auction. Makes no sense to me. Even if your strategy is to make someone overbid, if they are willing to overpay why wouldn’t you buy it, then sell it to them for a profit
my strat is to go to jail in mid or end game so you dont pay reny
to be honest, Monopoly is a game to talk and drink beer with friends who have no clue or not interested in strategy at all, not worth it to get an edge
Wait, are we talking about Monopoly or Clue... then you misspelled Stratego which is another game altogether. I'm confused.
Oh, I see. If you don't have clue and your friends are not interested in Stratego. Then play Monopoly. And this will happen so infrequently that it isn't worth getting an edge. I see.
@@Gastel
whatever, have a nice we
@@nedaronnax6193 A nice we? Did you mean Wii? I've upgraded to a Switch, but I don't have Clue, Stratego nor Monopoly on it at all. I'm completely confused.
@@Gastel I either agree or disagree, depending on what you both mean. I think I'm actually somewhere in the middle though.
Try to own one of every color set to sand bag the board, and drag down their earning.
My strategy is immediately after collecting a color set I mortgage everything and build as many houses as I can. Also if I have multiple color sets i mortgage the most expensive color sets and build on the least expensive color sets.
Great video! One specific tactic is something I like to call the railroad shuffle. When you own all four railroads -- especially later in the game when cash is king -- you can simply rotate which of your four railroads is unmortgaged. For instance, if the next opponent to roll is within striking distance of Reading Railroad, then you make sure that's the only unmortgaged railroad you have.
It costs literally $10 to perform this swap/shuffle of unmortgaged railroads (+100 for mortgaging railroad A and -110 for unmortgaging railroad B), but the expected value on this change is almost always greater than 10 bucks and therefore a plus-side move. Rough estimates:
7 away from RR: E[V] is 200/6 ~= $33
6 or 8 away: EV is 5/36 * 200 ~= $28
5 or 9 away: EV is 1/9 * 200 ~= $22
4 or 10 away: EV is 1/12 * 200 ~= $17
3 or 11 away: EV is 1/18 * 200 ~= $11
Plus, you'll have an extra $300 liquidity to put toward things like houses.
The number 1 strategy is the scarcity strategy. I’ve never lost while using this strategy. You aim for the cheapest properties and make every effort to gain monopolies on these cheapest properties. Build as many houses as you can on as many properties as you are able to build on. Never go to hotels and you will win nearly every time you play.
Yes, that's not bad - timing is still important though. And it depends on other players and the trades they make with each other. Remember they can cause a shortage for your as well!
It's a sound plan but you have to prevent others from gaining monopolies on sets where statistically many players will land on since the cheapest ones are before the jail space. If they end up getting orange and/or red first and they set up even just 9 houses there, it doesn't matter as much if everyone else has the rest of the houses because these spaces will cash out quicker, hindering others from developing or setting their progress back from having to sell their houses.
@@CrashAriMP5N2Oas long as you keep them below 3 houses on a given property you are fine and scarcity works much better
I usually buy the light blues and browns since houses and hotels are so cheap. People think I'm bad a trading when I give them high value properties for the cheap ones. The thing is houses and hotels are only $50 and I can make up to $600 dollars off of someone who just passed go. I think I need to be better at hiding my money and being humble while playing though LOL
Math wins again.
I feel like every time I play Monopoly my strategy always devolves into cheating! haha these are some good points to help that!
here is something I recommend. you should buy every property possible, this includes railroads and utilities. if other people have them trade it for some higher amounts of money. at this rate, you won't have to pay anyone anything, and if you have enough money you can purchase houses and hotels to make them pay you more eventually leading them into bankruptcy.
I had the perfect set up to win the game but the odds of rolling a 7 made everyone miss my orange properties which had 4 houses on every property pretty early… I bankrupted 1 person who had the reds but I didn’t have the money to pay them off and build houses which would’ve most likely given me an easy win if I had the money for it since everyone landed on the reds but not orange
I had pink and orange and my dad landed on community chest 7 times in a row…
My #1 tactic is not to buy properties immediately in the early stages but instead immediately bring them to auction. You are still allowed to bid. If your opponent is one that overpays you can deplete their cash early and snag properties dirt cheap later. If they are stingy you can gain the property for under cost. I will generally let the property go to the opponent for just below face value. That could change if I am targeting the property. This strategy works best when there is only 2 players. It is far more nuanced when there are more.
It's not a bad idea - it does have its risks if others know what you're up to, though
I think allowing the yellow and especially the green properties go to auction makes more sense.
That's stupid if opponents are not doing auction
2 player games that can be good strategy. When there are 3 or more players you need to buy aggressively early game to even get a chance of getting monopoly. In 4 player game you can't afford losing buying opportunities early game.
I actually like dark blue and brown streets in 4 player games since they have only 2 streets to get monopoly and other players usually see them as bad cold areas (especially browns). Most of the 4 player games those hot orange, red and yellows end up in stalemate. You can't be picky in 4 player games. If you have an opportunity to get monopoly, you will buy no matter what street it is.
I think that’s a good idea if you’re with 1 other person but this strategy won’t work with 3 or more people
My goal is always to get New York..St. James and Tennessee.
In the beginning of the game I'll buy up as many properties as I can.
Then I'd go for a monopoly through deals and trades to get all three of the orange ones.
After that I'd mortgage all my other properties if I had to and buy houses.
One time I had a monopoly on Board Walk and Park place.
I also had New York and Tennessee.
I traded both Board Walk and Park Place for St. James.
At the time of the trade my opponent thought he was getting a really good deal.
I also noticed that he didnt have the money to buy more than two houses because his houses cost $200 a peice.
He didnt think I had the money to buy any houses until I mortgaged all my other properties.
My houses were a $100 a peice..in a short time I was able to unmortgage all my properties and buy more houses which put my opponent into bankruptcy.
Although I took a risk, the odds of landing on the orange properties are much greater than landing on Board Walk and Park Place.
The orange properties are the best properties on the board.
Way to leverage your position.
Go
Strategy: Get all RR's (or as many as you can), Park Place, Boardwalk, and one of each other color set. You can't lose if you accomplish this. Rent from RR's will fund your housing.
Yes, but generally that is easier said than done, unless you drive a hard bargain at trading time...
I don't think people understand how op mortgaging properties to buy more properties can be.
Yes, Monopoly might be the most misplayed game of all time
Dont follow the first strategy i followed it bought everything and even bought houses to create a house shortage then a community chest card came and it aaked me for repair work on my properties pay 25 per house owned and 100 per hotels and since i had bought lots of houses i had to pay a huge amount and thus i lost the game
Yes, that happens sometimes. Monopoly does have a large luck element to it. However, the repair card is only one card in each deck, and it depends when it comes out. The strategy you are following was still sound
I really like using no. 5, you can agree with other player with a monopoly buy all the houses and be the strongest players for the rest of the game
It really locks you into a great position if you can rush them.
Monopoly can be fun but it all depends on what kinds of people your playing against.
Alot of people dont want to play by the rules, they prefer to make up their own rules.
This takes all the fun out of the game.
I play by the rules or I dont play at all.
Same. Unfortunately one friend I play with is extremely short sighted as far as strategy goes and almost always gives someone a winning monopoly in trade because he doesn't understand the deeper strategy.
I love this user name
@@LegendaryTactics Me or Don vito?
Try Monopoly Plus on PS4 or PS5, there's an option to play with the classic board and official rules. It can be played against AI (and you can set their difficulty), or you could play locally either sharing one controller or each player uses their own controllers, or you could play online.
@@UA-camCommenter7402 sounds good I'll look for it.
I generally have 1 startegy and that is to firstly get one of everything and prioritize getting a color set of Orange, Red. Once I have 1 of everything I have some trading power but since I didn't buy the other properties in the set I also got money to get the stuff I truely want. This usually leads to me winning many games but there are times where I just can't land on properties or just keep landing on bad spots and lose the game.
i never thought of forcing a auction to get a reduced price but makes sense if they dont have the money
Very sneaky but effective
when you decide not to buy a property, can you still bid on it during the auction?
Yes, you can!
Seems like opening strategy is the most important phase, and you basically hedged. Should you buy everything as long as you don't have to mortgage, mortgage immediately to continue buying everything, or buy only the top 50th percentile of properties?
The opening strategy is less important than the mid game, where the trading happens, in my opinion. I am of the mind that you should buy as many properties outright as you can, as that gives you more to work with when the trading begins to happen. The only time I wouldn't buy a property is if it's a property I don't care about that much and I'm willing to potentially lose it at auction, or if I truly can't afford it.
@@LegendaryTactics sounds good. Would you mortgage stuff when low on funds to potentially buy more stuff?
fwiw I was curious so I ran into someone did a python simulation and came to the conclusion u should buy everything except green and utilities. He didn't account for auctions or try the early mortgage strat tho.
The only thing I care about and nobody talks about it. How much you should pay for mortgage properties.
Bro strat 1 did not work out for my friend. I always and I mean always landed on either my properties or the chance and community chests spots. She always landed on my properties. (She had all but 2 properties)
Boardwalk is the best property on the cool side of the board, as it has the highest raw ROI of basically any property on the board(12.5% without a monopoly, 13.3% with a monopoly, and 72.7% with a hotel when factoring in even building, compared to the 48.5% New York Avenue gets from a hotel when even building is factored in, and even barely edging out Baltic Avenue, with a 72.6% ROI from a hotel when factoring even building) and being the one on that side with the highest odds of landing on it due to the Chance or Community Chest card (I don’t remember which deck it’s in).
The statistical analysis would disagree with you. Boardwalk is one of the most expensive properties to develop - even though its ROI is good, if you can't build the houses because you're low on cash, it doesn't matter. And the oranges are landed on far more often because every player that leaves jail has to run that orange gauntlet, which is obviously a more common occurrence than drawing a single Chance/Community Chest card.
Boardwalk is a great property for sure, but I'd happily trade Boardwalk to someone and give them the dark blue monopoly in exchange for completing my orange monopoly every time.
Also, you should build a Hotel if you can rebuild the houses immediately
Great point.
This is my main strategy for 2 player games with another good player. Building a hotel to free up houses so YOU can buy those houses is KEY.
My top best strats in my opinion is there are four sets orange yellow greens and dark blues is what I mostly buy and I always auction utilities to go for the railroads but buy pinks reds to use as mortgaging sets for later or sell to your opponent for more money
Much like my real life investing B/C properties have best cash flow but not as much rent.
There is something wrong with the board state in this video example. You can't have a single hotel in a property set haha.
2 of my friends and I played first to 15 wins. I won with 15, my other friends had 13 and 12. Yes we played that many games throughout a month and it was one of the best times.
Man I don’t get the utilities hate. I always buy them. They help me buy a house everytime somebody lands on them. It’s after the light blues which I love and right before jail so if you don’t go to jail you’ll land there or yellow. Utilities are great to buy you house and if you have both and somebody lands a big roll you’re making what 3 trains are worth. They’re also cards that force you to go to utilizes. So RESPECT UTILITIES
Ha ha, ok, ok! I respect them. But they are really only good in the early game for the most part, when you will typically recieve around $70. And the fact that the "rent" you receive from them is unpredictable makes them a bit harder to love. But I always buy them, as they can also be good to throw into a trade to sweeten it.
@@LegendaryTactics that’s also true.
Buy the Browns, trust me... 😎👍
Everybody loves the brown.
Wdym i thought it became illegal à long time ago??
Thanks so much I do really like the game but I wasn't able to get a strong strategy, after this video I feel much confident
Medditerian and Baltic. And never buy hotels
Solid advice
My friends and I play our own version to where we can put at most 2 hotels on properties (we try to end the game faster). To do this, we must pay double the first hotel. We don't go hotel and house, but rather hotel straight to double hotel. The double hotel doubles the price (one hotel on New York Avenue = $1,000 and 2 hotels = $2,000).
From where do you have the probabilities you are mentioning?
I can't seem to find my source. It was an article to do with the probabilities of monopoly.
I took a probability course in uni but you don't need it to understand this. There's only one way to get a 12 on the die, two sixes, and theres two ways to get 11, five and a six but on opposite die, so it is more probable to get 11 than 12. By the same logic 7 is the most probable because you can get it in the most ways. The 36% to the oranges they got by adding the probabilities of the rolls from jail and so on.
A tactic I've experimented with is to try and get the two browns and blues through landing on them or through trading for a low price (acting like you don't really need them).
So that later on when making a trade, add those to the offer as a bonus incentive, since players are much more likely to accept property than money.
This allows you trade to get better properties for much less of the cost.
People management is the best strategy
Definitely under rated
I am at the point I only want to play if there is a crazy variation of the game, we play the Space Jam new legacy which has you making $500 passing GO on the condition you make 3 basketball shots from the plastic toy backboard.. they included.. which is not easy
I bought that Monopoly game on Steam the other day and it's terrible.
You can't skip Ai rolls and you can't get a top down view to see what's going on.
It's just really bad.
Yes, the reviews are not good on that one. It's really too bad - you would think it would not only be easy to program, but that there would be money behind it to make sure it showcases the game well.
@@LegendaryTactics Wasted opportunity by them. With the right resources I could have done a way better job on the game.
1 tip that's really good is try own at least one property of each color except brown, with this your opponents will not be able to get a color set or if your opponent had a property you really wanted than you could just trade
I’m guessing the whole dice probability thing doesn’t apply when playing on mobile (dice probability isn’t a thing I don’t believe)
Possibly, although it is such a key part of the game, I would hope that the programmers would take it into account and make it as accurate as possible.
I mean if you look at it from a programmers perspective, the game shows you 2 separate die anyway, difference in code for it to incorporate probabilities is miniscule, so it is probable that they've done it
Thanks for the guide. I wish the people management section was longer I was confused by it. You said you could agree with one player to not charge them rent but what do you get in return?
The scarcity of housing tactic annoyed mu wife so much that she bought a new pack of houses and added them to our set 😅
Lol. I love her strategy. Did she just slip them in so no one noticed?
@@LegendaryTactics no, she just did it openly. She was very annoyed at the tactic
Dark blues aren’t that good but man is it the most important piece in the game you get that then you need 1 more for a settlement it’s a really good trading piece and me personally ion mind banking on the blues easy to go self made on like idk how to explain it definitely my favorite set then pinks then yellows then greens oranges are definitely 100 percent the best get your hands on oranges and blues you pretty much won
If you get something good for trading away full monopolies when there are no houses, do it
I buy everything at the start and when i get like 3 of the orange i mortgage everything and i have houses on orange right away and they go bankrupt so u win fast and easy
In between jail and free parking (pink and orange) is the way I’ve won against ppl that usually win every time
One of the ways I play is trying to buy 1 of every colored property while also targeting the dark blue, orange, red and utility propertys
I have an idea for people who love to gamble.
Replace monopoly money for real currency
I employ every single strategy from this video. I hardly ever lose a fame now. I have to work on money management and strateaving a diversified negotiating strategy.
4:51. That dosen't really count for brown and light blue but it counts for the other properties.
Canadian accent came out when you said “when in doot”
We wear it with pride, eh?
this was very helpful for me thanks
Glad to hear that!
Im a professional monopoly player and these tricks are insane approved
Let's go.....
Go where? :)
@@LegendaryTactics I'm not sure, I may have made this comment accidentally. I think it was for a different video.
Something that confuses me about this game is why would I put 3 houses on a street if I can put a hotwl and earn more? And how often does one need to pay a mortgage? Every round?
3 houses are the most cost-efficient boost to your rental income. You can always improve beyond that, but it isn't as efficient. And one only pays a mortgage fee whenever they un-mortgage a property.
Can someone explain the 10% rule with mortage? If you want to buy the title deed is it the original price + 10% or the mortaged price plus 10%?
Original price: 100
Mortgage: 50
Unmortgage: 55
That means you'll get 50 from the bank if you mortgage your property but you'll have to pay plus 10% interest which is (50 + 50 * 0.10 = 55) if you want to unmortgage it.
The utility s are great 10x what you rolled
How did you get the bear character?
There it is :)
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Great video. Thanks
Glad you liked it!
The dice produce slightly more results than at light (4,5,6) than heavy.
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I have a question, when there are no more houses and I have no houses on certain properties, assuming that I can afford them, is it a good idea to build straight to hotels?
Unfortunately, you're not able to. The game specifically says that there has to be enough houses for you to build up to four houses each before converting to a hotel. This can lead to some strategy involving causing a housing shortage so your opponents can't build to the extent that they would like.
Great video
Bruh my brother sent me this after I loss to him 💀
Lol. Time for payback.
Does anny one plays Monopoly on playstation?
Not so much. But I play Twisted Metal on PS1!
Nah, only the NES version. Love that hungry cash register whenever a oponent lands on my properties. NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM.
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Best thing to do is own at least one color of every set. Then at some point trade to gain a color set, preferably blue or orange. I only trade when players have no money to develop their land.
Example.
Joe has 2 red and sally has 1, I’ll overpay for Sally’s one color to prevent joe from having a set.
I won’t trade till I have enough cash to buy houses and hotels.
Some versions of the rules dont allow collecting rent while in jail. This is the frustrating part of monopoly because they seem to change the rules all the time.
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Thank you?
@@LegendaryTactics you're welcome, thank you for investing in me