you plagiarized this information from the official richard simmons monopoly strategy guide. you need to apology to richard because you didn't cite richard's work
@@paulcooverjr.6947 Mortgaging a property has its own rule set. 1. You can't mortgage a property if any of the properties in that group have houses or hotels. This is the way I've always seen it played but the official rules indicate you can still mortgage a property if the other properties still have ONE house. Since there can only be a one house variance between the least and most improved properties in the set, you couldn't have a hotel on Park Place while Boardwalk is mortgaged. The most you could have is one house on Park Place. 2. If you have more than one house on the properties you must sell all the hotels and houses (at half price) back to the bank until you reach the one house variance or get rid of them all (depending on how you interpret the rules). 3. When you mortgage a property the Bank gives you half the face value. Boardwalk is worth $400 so the Bank gives you $200. This is considered a loan. 4. You must turn your card upside-down for each mortgaged property, to prove to everyone it is mortgaged. 5. You still own the property but it is mortgaged. 6. If someone lands on the mortgaged property, they don't pay you rent. In the real world mortgages don't work this way but in the game they do. Eventually you may want to un-mortgage the properties. 1. You pay half the value + 10% interest to the Bank. Basically 60% of the value of the property to cover the loan and the interest. 2. You flip that card right-side up. It's a real boy again. 3. If you cause someone to go bankrupt and take all their properties, you will pay an immediate 10% on each mortgaged property you collect from them. It will cost you another 10% (interest) when you decide to un-mortgage the property. 4. If you own all properties in that color set you can start building houses/hotels normally.
I won monopoly the other day, I only watched the video today. But I used a similar strategy. Bought as much property as possible and leveraged property that seemed valuable like green to get orange and used my property to block monopolys. I was honest with everyone in the game I told them orange is the most frequently landed on property they kept saying well no one landed their yet then bang they all dropped like flies
@@LobsterFingers they convinced me, it's my girlfriends family. And they played just there today and won again using red, no one got orange as I had it.
My family refuses to play me. It's been literally decades since any of them have even suggested the game anywhere around me! People seem to hate me after playing that game. I'm viscous at it.
And always remember: if the game box runs out of houses that is supposed to happen, do not use random junk to represent more. The game is finely balanced and buying out all the houses is a strategy for preventing other people from buying them. (Which also means typically you shouldn't buy hotels)
@@tylerhorn3712 the issue with all of these videos explaining strategies for common household games is that everyone plays with whatever rules their aunts came up with haha
I would never ever in my life think I’d seriously watch a video about winning the Monopoly every time but I watched the whole thing. Props to you my guy!
One other gotcha related to houses: keep a close eye on the available supply. There often aren't enough to go around, leaving some people unable to build. It may be wise to build houses on a poor color just to prevent opponents from building on theirs. Also sometimes you may not want to upgrade to hotels because those houses will go back into the supply pool.
ehhhh not rlly the case in my games, in them usually the guy that can get a 3 property set and build a decent amount houses first just wins (thats me most of the time lolll), so it doesnt really matter to keep an eye out for me, instead ill just build until hotels so everyone bankrupts faster
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That was my go to strategy, only problem is that the people I used to play with hated trading, so they would hoard properties without any goal in mind, and the game would come to a stalemate.
Yeah a game without trading is near impossible and will go the legendary "6 hours" game. The trick is to make trades that look better for others when they are better for you. I'm going more into detail on that and the money supply in the advanced video, hopefully can have it done soon!
@@whatswhat2022 oh my god that’s just so relatable. It’s also absolutely dumb because my family insisted on “you can only buy a house if you land on that property” rule. If anything I don’t think we ever made anyone bankrupt and instead always end a match counting how much property value and money each person has after everyone gets bored, usually like 6 hours into the game💀.
@@lukefranklin5 yeah, the worst is when they say that they never lose in the game like "brother, you literally only take the trades that benefit you by a very large margin and refuse to trade otherwise"
Something I've learned is to try and monopolize the railroads. Hitting the middle isn't common, but having your opponents be at risk every roll leaves you having a bunch of cash on hand. Also having someone draw the chance card that states a player has to advance to a railroad but had to pay twice the rent if it's already owned also gives you a lot of support, leaving you 400 bucks richer
@@jeremywj I got lucky because my little brother didn't realize the potential the railroads had. I still lost the game because my mom went bankrupt when she owed my dad, and I had little to no properties
I love to get the railroads if possible. You will sometimes see players roll doubles and keep landing on railroads along the way. Even at 200 bucks, this will chip away at their funds nicely. My favorite groups to score will still be the orange and light blues since they are extremely probably places for people land, but the railroads mixed in with some sold coverage of the board just doom for your opponents. Especially when they get an ill timed card forcing them to them.
The railroads are good late game as well because of their value as mortgageable properties which retain their full rent price on every unmortgaged property. In a 1v1 unmortgaging the railroads is a really safe way to put property back on the board which can be liquidated at little cost again
Also, never forget that you can "make no mistakes and still lose". Monopoly is a probabilistic game. You can own the orange properties and build up your houses and it's possible no one ever lands on them, while you always land on your opponent's undeveloped properties slowly giving them the resources to win. These strategies do not guarantee you a win every game. They will just massively increase your win rate over a large amount of games.
That’s literally what happened to me lol I traded dark blue for orange and build houses pretty early while only one other person had a few houses but everyone just landed on the community chest and passed them for like 2-3 times only one person got bankrupted by me but I landed on green and lost almost all my money I would easily won if 1-2 people landed on them I bankrupted one person and got 2 full sets but didn’t have the money to pay them off and build houses If I had the money then I would’ve had 3 streets in a row
I also bought up all the houses so it was even more perfect but I just got extremely unlucky.. even worse is that everyone seemed to land on my properties when I had to sell all my houses
Yes, unluckiness can be the deciding factor... Another important strategy not covered here is that in the end, winning Monopoly is not about enriching yourself; It is really about bankrupting you opponents. This is also how many people similarly do everything right and still lose. Put simply: In Monopoly, all of your amassed riches can be taken away in a couple of moves, but bankrupt one of your opponents, and that bankruptcy puts them out of the game for good. 👍
Ok I'm gonna use these tips for my next family game. I'll update you on the outcome Update: My brother flipped the board and my parents are getting a divorce That went pretty well
A good thing to add, in the original version of monopoly (table top/board) there is a limited number of hotells and houses that you can own. Making it a good strategy to never convert houses to hotells because after a while you might take away the option entirely to buy houses or hotells from other players.
@@eezym8131 No, not according to the fine print in the rules. You can improve your properties up to a hotel in one turn but you MUST buy 4 houses on each first and then convert them into hotels. It's like walking 10 steps from the kitchen to the bathroom. You can do that fairly quickly but if there's a big crater in the house you can't just teleport to the bathroom. You must put in your steps. In Monopoly, buying houses is your steps.
We play mega monopoly and the number of houses and hotels is the same as the standard game, so it's less mega boom and more mega recession. Sometimes you need to add or remove things from a game because the developers haven't always thought it through.
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I just finished winning for the first time monopoly! The tip abour the orange houses were very useful. After some trading, I owned the oeange color set . The only other thing I owned was the railroad next to it. I made them into hotels. Since everyone else was buying a lot of things they were broke so they mortages a lotta the lots. Those who built houses did it on the yellow and brown ones which weren’t as common to land on. When it was the finale two 90% of the map was mortaged so it was hard for my oppanang to make money so eventually they became bankrupt! Tysm!
Light blue is always the most fiercely contested in my games. If you can get those set up really fast, which you often can because they are roughly where everyone lands first, you can start your opponents bleeding cash before they get anything of their own going to recuperate it.
Properties from Go and Jail are the most probable locations to land on. There's plenty of game functions that drag players to both Go and Jail, so when they roll from either of those places, 6 and 8 are second most common numbers to come up. (7 is the most likely with two dice, but Community Chest and Chance are always the 7th space.) Why the light blues and oranges are two on the highest interaction locations to own.
They are a good set-up for the end. But the true power corner are the Orange and Red. Your opponent lands on Vermont with a hotel ($550). Next turn he rolls an 8 (St. James, $950). The turn after that he rolls a 7 (Indiana, $1050). This can happen a lot. In such a case, those blue properties were the beginning of the end and the emotional downfall of your opponent.
Usually a game of monopoly between me and my friends lasts more than 3 hours because all of us are not stupid and can always distinguish bad deals. Which is why the better you are at the game, the more boring it gets. We would just play until one of us gets tired and call the game a draw
Try my new rule. TAKEOVER. Land on an opponent's property, then when the opponent asks you to pay rent, Pay the Listed price of that Property PLUS Double Rent TO THE BANK instead to the owner. You can snatch their property ALONG WITH THEIR HOUSES/HOTELS. This not only takes down stubborn traders(by potentially destroying their set and their chances of building houses), but also players who move later can gain properties, gaining them a better start instead of starting their game in a disadvantage. The downside of this is this is very likely to be more expensive than Auctions, so players will have to think twice before attempting it.
You and your friends are terrible players if you dont recognize within the first 20 minutes the pending stalemate and just keep playing the same game for hours.
@@OurFamily- You could make the game a turn limit game. My family only plays 20 turns then collects rent from the bank, then whoever has the most cash wins.
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Playing Settlers of Catan helped me understand the probability of numbers rolled by 2 dice. Before playing that game I never really thought about it. Great video!
THIS IS GENIUS. i was playing with 3 friends the other day. We all followed this guide and we all won every game. It seems impossible, but it really works. 5/5
You were playing with 3 friends and you all won? That sounds like you won one time and lost twice. For your friend to win, you have to lose... it's funny how that works.
It's true that 3 houses is usually the sweet spot. But even 2 houses can be painful to hit from the reds on. Also, i'd personally be inclined to split the board more up and down, instead of diagonally from jail. That is, i would include the light blues and exclude the yellows from the frequently hit properties. People often hit the light blues coming around go. Also, virginia, st james, and tennesse are good for extra houses for people rolling doubles coming out of jail. On the other hand, st charles, illinois, and boardwalk are card targets. Of course, the railroads are awesome to own, though houses cannot be built on them.
Really good comment. I have a little bit about that in the advanced video, still working on. Love the light blues and they are easily a top 3 property set, but as a very simple rule of thumb, your odds of landing on are way higher between jail and the go to jail spot
I just hide a bunch of five hundreds under my side of the board. 💵🟥💴🟦💷🎲🟨🎩 When I'm losing before paying high rent to a player, you sneak one or two out of hiding and 💥, suddenly you have enough to pay that rent, drama is avoided, and no one skips a beat about it! 🤣🥳
dude i just realized this is a small channel. the quality of the video made me think you have like over 100K subs but then looked at the sub count lmao crazy how underrated this video is, this will become big within 1 year guaranteed
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I saw the frist one I figured that it was like 100k subs at the time too with like an animator and everything but dang 430 subs will about to be 431 subs
Very informative for new players, me and my friends have been going back and forth in monopoly for years every week so it's nothing new to us and we're all aware of everything covered but the basics are very important to understand nonetheless. Our biggest problem is trades, because we know all the best and worst to own we rarely ever make a deal to start with and it gets very complex trying to figure out who is coming out on top. One very important thing I think was missed is the limit on houses in a game, buying them without going to hotels drastically handicaps your opponents so if they try and make a deal with you and there's only 9 houses left make sure the deal is on your turn or you'll be stuck with a worthless set while they're rolling out construction. Going to hotels has proven to be me more harmful then good in 90% of scenarios especially if there's not enough houses to remove the hotels if you're in a tight spot.
@Knarpasti yeah 3 houses is a really great tip, I wanted to expand on that and show the downside of hotels for more advanced players. I assume that's something he plans to add to his next video but I think it would of been a great addition to this one. Not buying hotels is more of a personal preference and probably applies to more advanced players, just wanted to highlight how things can go wrong after buying them
Why would you play it every week for years? It's the worst boardgame in existence. Just buy any of the thousands of actually good games that have come out in the last few decades.
One thing I don't like with the official rules is that you can buy houses anytime. I think it's ridiculous that when someone rolls doubles and gets closer to your property than you'd otherwise expect, that all of a sudden you can interrupt their turn and buy houses. So, I came up with the reasonable house rule that you can ONLY buy houses on your turn and then ONLY before you roll the dice.
Even the monopoly game that I play with friends online has this rule where you can only buy houses on your turn, but it doesn’t need to be before rolling I do t think
I feel that one of the most important things is mastering negotiation. For example, If I was trying to trade Boardwalk to get the Orange monopoly, I would mention how much I paid for Boardwalk in comparison to the orange which I'm receiving. But even if I was on the opposite side, I would mention that my houses cost much more than the orange property, hence why I will not accept the deal without gaining money or extra property that I would then mortgage. Also, I like to buy random properties early in the game that I know could become very valuable later on. For example, I would offer $500 for st. James knowing that if I wait, the price will go way up. So I kind of treat it like the stock market, Buy Low Sell high. I've been almost undefeated recently in my very competitive family monopoly game as of late, so I hope some of these strategies help you guys out
You might be able to simplify the first two tips together - take your jail/go sides, rotate them ccw 90°, call that your attack and defence halves. If you're starting on an attack edge, be aggressive wherever you might land. The sides might be a bit far back considering the average 7 roll not being enough to clear one edge, but consider that doubles grant extra rolls, and therefore greater travel, and you'll probably even out. Also, general monopoly tip, not necessarily for winning: set a lap limit. Most value at the end wins. Don't play to domination, that's how games drag on.
I just finished winning for the first time monopoly! The tip abour the orange houses were very useful. After some trading, I owned the oeange color set . The only other thing I owned was the railroad next to it. I made them into hotels. Since everyone else was buying a lot of things they were broke so they mortages a lotta the lots. Those who built houses did it on the yellow and brown ones which weren’t as common to land on. When it was the finale two 90% of the map was mortaged so it was hard for my oppanang to make money so eventually they became bankrupt! Tysm!
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I watched this and smashed my regular competition FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! We've been at it for years and I always lost first or around the middle of the flock and developed a hatred for this game, but I really enjoyed myself last night, thank you! (I even made my wife cry and I now understand why the green properties suck)
it actually depends on the number of other players, when u r up against 4 or more opponents then green r the best u can (mathematically that is) pick. and with fewer opponents its orange and red and in an 1 vs 1 its red and light blue. There is a 6 year old video on youtube where an engineer and a mathematician r talking about it
Was wondering why the ones I play with scowl at me. Just doing my own things, but if it doesn't work out, I just give my remaining railroads to the top / luckiest player in that game for some nominal value (so I could at least stay out of debt and throw a few more dice).
I believe owning the brown properties is also a good strategy since they are extremely cheap and they are right past go meaning the area where the other players are likely to lose the money they get from passing go is larger
The lightblue properties are great for creating a house-shortage, because they can be filled with 12 cheap houses (out of 32). They are stocked safely under your control there, until you decide to deploy them elsewhere.
Agreed the light blues are great for that, but ultimately stopping the other players from even having money to build houses is better. More about that in the advanced video, working hard on it!
Monopoly is a fun game, but the major problem with it is you pretty much know who will win the game after you go around 2-3 times. After that, you just spend 2-3 hours making it official. Less than 50% of the time, ime, is the ultimate winner not obvious early on. I guess my ultimate point is strategy really only comes into play if you and another player are even after the first 2-3 times around the board. Therefore, there is nothing you can do to win monopoly "every time". Luck is the deciding factor in 50% or more of games.
One of the reasons why I like the two cheap guys, is if you can work it, you can create a housing shortage on the blue and the brown and by refusing to create hotels there’s not enough houses for the expensive stuff. Which by the way, is one of the original points of the game.
I played monopoly for 2.5h with family and a friend 5 years ago, and even have no idea what houses are, but don't regret watching because it's very good
Overall, good strategy. However, I disagree with the early note to not buy Med / Baltic…I’ve bankrupted opponents a number of times based off just having this monopoly. They often can be something that opponents undervalue in trades (sometimes one of the few developable monopolies I can get opponents to trade) Additionally, I’ve found that a rainbow of properties in my hand allows me to help control the tempo and decide when I want to offer a trade (eg when I’ve got the cash (or ability to get cash via mtg)) that works out in my favor.
I made trades that wound up with me buying the whole ghetto (the first side past Go.) I had plenty of cash, so I immediately erected a hotel on both monopolies, plus I owned all four railroads. That move right there beat my opponents into submission. They were trying to save their cash to develop on the blue, green, and yellow properties but knew they couldn't get past me. They all conceded. Wimps.
Thanks, this was nice information. BUT I have to say, it was super annoying to have a fake board swirling around the entire time. All I wanted to do was look at the actual board as you talked and explained positions. The visual was actively working against your content. Thanks!
I was wondering if I was gonna learn anything new here but nope, I guess my monopoly lobbies with my buddies made me an extremely knowledgeable player. Good video.
This is the best guide, he gets straight to the point and tells you exactly what you'll get out of watching the video other guides just say some BS then wtf was the point of the vid. +Sub for what's what
My wife always aims for orange and red. Idk where she learned that strategy, but she’s pretty deadly. I’ve owned all the light blue and pink with houses and almost nobody would land on light blue and every once in a while people would land on pink, but owning those places haven’t worked out for me before. Then again we were playing on the wii against 2 bots so I’m sure they were programmed to just not land on our spaces. 😂
Light blue’s real power is in being able to buy up all the houses there for cheap. Pink is a good set, but not quite as good as orange or red. It’s cheaper, but it’s harder to bankrupt people. It’s mostly just nice for when you know the advance to st Charles is coming up and can get low risk money. But, it usually needs another set with it to secure the win.
I played this game like 80 times, and only like the last 4 times did I read the directions myself and learn how it is ACTUALLY meant to be played , which made all the difference to make this turn from a luck-dominant game to a strategy-dominant game. Instantly I became super interested and watched videos like this. However, none of them even talk about the most fundamental part which basically makes or ruins the game, which is the original part of auctioning properties. IMO auctioning properties to make your enemies broke is even more important than focusing on which ones you get overall to begin with. Since you can easily trade the 'bad' properties after for the good ones if you got a lot more because you played them auction-wise... I always auction stuff not based on how much I think something is worth, but based on how much I think my opponent will pay for it, then once they... pay for it. I clean house by buying everything else on the cheap... I watched this video because I was hoping for tips on how your average human values stuff, and how to maximize how much they pay for something, so I can take advantage of this point. But like I said, I've only played like 4 games since learning the REAL rules, and am eager to murder my opponents even more =).
True. Strategy can be separated into static and dynamic. Knowing "which squares to own" is static and doesn't change from one game to the next, and it will basically come down to luck if you're playing other players that did their research. Auctions and deals are dynamic and hence far more interesting.
Love the animations and you did a great job with pacing. A lot of videos like this go way too fast but this was felt just right and I only had to pause it or go back 2-3 times.
I agree with the math and the base strategy in this video, however I do feel like there is somethings you are not considering. There is a limit of 32 houses. Therefore the browns are cheap to build on, can drain up to 8 houses out of the total thus in my opinion making them pretty desirable. Monopoly yes, is about beating your opponents but also out surviving them, which I think this video doesn’t consider enough :)
I think you make trading seem a lot easier than it is. It’s rare that I find opponents willing to accept trades, even when they seem like they’d benefitting because they are also playing defensively.
The railroads are the most underrated properties in my opinion. Firstly, they’re easier to trade for because most people undervalue them. I’ll tell someone that i’ll only do a certain trade if they throw in their railroad, making it seem like it’s just a throwaway property. Secondly, they’re landed on very often. It’s the only monopoly with 4 spaces on the board(2 of which are on the “jail side”, and one of them being in that 5-9 range right out of jail). There’s also 3 chance cards that send you to a railroad(2 of which make you pay double what’s owed). The next highest is just 1 chance card. One time i had a single person land on 3 in a row! Thirdly, it gives you a safe space to land on on every side of the board. And Fourth, they require very little setup. They don’t require you to buy houses but they still pay a lot of money for how often they’re landed on. They’re the best way to make money early because of this, making it easier to buy houses later, and making it harder for your opponents to buy them later too. A lot of games, getting the railroads early can make the other monopolies not even matter. I can build houses on my bad properties and my opponents can’t build houses on their good properties.
I think railroads are the strongest. No setup makes them so strong post trades, and makes you get money really fast to setum houses on other places. They are not a winning condition by themselves, but make the game 100% times easier
One of my best strategies is to buy all the rail stations and utilities at the beginning of the game ... which allows me to earn a decent Amount of money to fund my next strategy.after earning a decent amount of money I buy some cheap properties and then build hotels on them and thats how I always have an advantage against other players. (most the time this strategy works)
100% my strategy! It gets the weaker players out fast but then always builds the other strong players to not accept future trades because all they see is you raking in cash on owning all 4 rail stations.
Thanks ! My friends and I have a family game night and we’ve been playing for almost a month every other Saturday for game night ! Your tips helped me win last weekend ! And my wife the weekend before !
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Once, during a family game of Monopoly, everybody was landing on the browns and turning them down (we weren’t using auctions) and my brother would constantly laugh and say ‘oh no, i’m so scared, i’m gonna die on the browns!”, and so just for laughs I bought the browns, got a hotel on Mediterranean, and landed on it and went bankrupt.
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Yeah rent will kill you there, but it's also crazy expensive to develop them. As long as you can get yourself a jail side monopoly with 3 houses before they get more than 1 house on green or blue then you should be fine 🤑
Green is crazy expensive because 3 houses on 3 properties runs you $1800, but blue gets to only be $1200 bc 2 properties, for a lower chance to land, but higher kill potential. I like dark blue, but mostly when you know the advance to boardwalk card is coming up soon 😂
Hot take, browns can be super useful if you get them as a set really early. $500 for hotels on both, and they pay themselves back after 2 landings on them.
The worst is when you bankrupt another player and they give everything they have to someone else for a dollar. It’s extremely poor sportsmanship but there’s no rule against it, so people do that just to spite me
There is a rule. If YOU bankrupt the player, that player should GIVE YOU everything they have. If that player gone bankrupt by himself, all of the properties that he owns, should give it to the bank.
@@benjamincrawford8304 that’s not true because if you land on someone’s property and don’t have enough money to pay them then you can make trades with other people to get enough money to pay them with
I found splitting the board and playing to 7 helpful tips I had not thought of before. I sort of always played to the second row, but that was more because the properties have a good cost to payback ratio. The 3rd row gets expensive and the 4th row is impossible. Nobody ever wins with Park Place.
@@kenm4390 Did you watch the video? They are in one of the least trafficked parts of the board and cost a fortune to develop. Plus since there are only two of them your chances of getting a payout are 2/3 of other properties. I stay away from that whole side of the board because they are too expensive to buy and develop, but I will buy them if I land on them to trade later for better properties. Now if you do have them and can afford to put hotels on them and someone does land on them, you win! But it is a low probability gambit.
@@Nonplused The rent is far higher than the other monopolies so if someone lands on it just once it can win you the game. And in fact it’s guaranteed that someone will land on it at least once because one of the chance cards sends you to boardwalk. If it’s getting late in the game and that card has not been drawn, the blues become the best monopoly in the game. Plus since you have to put houses on everything in the monopoly it’s cheaper to build on blue than green
Super scary monopoly. Not very good on its own cause you are basically gambling, but they can wreck someone for sure, almost more dangerous to be against you than powerful for you. But as you wrote in your comments, it just takes one roll to win the game. Also strangely it's very cheap to develop. More upcoming on how to use them in my advanced video, hard at work on it!
A good strategy to use when playing monopoly is to get monopolies on the oranges and reds, then build a couple of houses on each of these properties. You have now created what I like to call 'death corner' which your opponents will struggle to get through without landing on one of your properties, allowing you to quickly build up cash to upgrade your properties. This results in a vicious cycle where every time somebody lands on one of your properties you can use the rent money to build more houses and maybe even hotels meaning they have to pay even more money next time they land there. Speaking of which, don't build hotels. Use houses instead. If you put 3 or 4 houses on each of your properties, you can easily cause a housing shortage, forcing other players to go straight to building hotels if they want a good amount of rent, which can be tough if they don't have loads of money. By doing this, you can collect tons of money while losing very little since the other players most likely won't have enough money to build masses of hotels to collect cash effectively. Just don't go too crazy with these strategies though, because if you do your friends might just get mad and quit the game before it's even over.
Other players can’t build hotels if they don’t have 4 houses on each property You need to have 4 houses on each property or have enough houses in the box to build a hotel that’s an official rule
THANK YOU SO MUCH ❤, I won an otherwise lost game by absolutely bamboozling my friend through a trade, asking him to give me 2 tiles (making my pair) on jail side of board and a few cash, in return I gave him like 4 different tiles on jail side which made his 3 pairs and he had an existing pair beforehand. He had total 4 pairs and I had only 1 but as the game goes on most of the time we both landed on jail and almost every time he had to pay me because of the dice odds whereas I paid him only like TWICE even though he had 3 pairs of tiles more than I had, he landed 4 FREAKING TIMES ON MY HOTEL even though I had only 1 pair, ultimately he lost that game, he was stunned, it was so fun bullying that annoying friend of mine. This video deserves my like and you earned a subscriber as well, pls keep making such good content, hopefully I'll get more chances to bully my friends
Interesting overview of the strategy...in my experiences playing this game: owning the Orange, Red and Green properties were how I won most of the time. If I didn't get at least 2 of those 3 sets, I never won, so I find it interesting that you say to never buy the green properties, but it's all probability and how you broke down the game board makes a lot of sense from strictly a mathematics point of view. There's always going to be variables though and I should mention that I've never played a game of Monopoly where people actually auctioned off properties...it was either buy the property or it went back to the bank until someone else landed on it lol
Most home games are like that. (And don't get me started about piles of money in the middle of the board waiting for someone to land on "Free Parking" like it's winning the lottery.) But play in a tournament run by a game store or the like and you will find that people are fanatical about strictly following the rules, including auctions. Usually, the only house rules in those tournaments are things which don't affect the game (such as food/drink rules), cost to play (if any), etc.
The Greens are very poor (the worst?). They are not landed upon often. People often skip them completely when landing on go to jail. They are also very expensive to build on. There are no cards that send people to them (or send them to a spot that sets them up to land on the greens). The "Go back three spaces" chance card doesn't help the greens either. The Blues get a pass because they pay out at an inflated rate and there is "advance to Boardwalk" that boosts them. Orange and reds are pure money though!
I go for st charles because it has a landing card and is also the most landed on properties (atleast on the monopoly mobile app, idk if it is truly random), I get the light blues because they are cheap houses and a single person landing on them when they are built allows you to get your maroons to 3 if not 4 houses which can start ruining peoples games. I also always get the two browns. 4-500 for hotels and they are landed on 4-5 times per game. Also yes, they do bankrupt people, although only once they are already doomed to lose.
St Charles Place isn't even in the top ten of most landed on properties. #1 would be Illinois Ave. But the the three oranges all together are landed on more often than any other set. This makes the oranges by far the most important properties on the board.
@@holden88 ((((((( """""""" Atleast on the monopoly mobile app """"""" ))))))) Fun Fact: I actually have an entire data sheet with 1000 games played on the monopoly mobile app to see statistically which were the most landed on.
So I like the theory and strategy , and as far as the best properties go your theory lines up pretty well with the empirical test that was done by running tons of simulations, the only difference is that for some reason in thousands of games the green properties tend to be landed on a disproportionately high amount of times.
I agree with everything but the brown properties being bad. Nobody ever wants them but there are only two and they're on the cheapest stretch of the board at 50$ per building. You can immediately put two hotels there with only 500$ and make 250 to 450 back with each tenant. I'm the one who's said to "always win monopoly" in my group and I can't count how much money these two slums made me over the years and games.
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Thank you very much. Will definitely be watching this either today or tomorrow.
Curious, I thought that when you mortgage a property it goes up for auction, what is the rule for mortgage properties
you plagiarized this information from the official richard simmons monopoly strategy guide. you need to apology to richard because you didn't cite richard's work
@@BossItUp911 I just asked a question. Did not steal from anyone!.wtf. was just asking? How do we treat mortgage? Don't believe I need this hostility!
@@paulcooverjr.6947 Mortgaging a property has its own rule set.
1. You can't mortgage a property if any of the properties in that group have houses or hotels. This is the way I've always seen it played but the official rules indicate you can still mortgage a property if the other properties still have ONE house. Since there can only be a one house variance between the least and most improved properties in the set, you couldn't have a hotel on Park Place while Boardwalk is mortgaged. The most you could have is one house on Park Place.
2. If you have more than one house on the properties you must sell all the hotels and houses (at half price) back to the bank until you reach the one house variance or get rid of them all (depending on how you interpret the rules).
3. When you mortgage a property the Bank gives you half the face value. Boardwalk is worth $400 so the Bank gives you $200. This is considered a loan.
4. You must turn your card upside-down for each mortgaged property, to prove to everyone it is mortgaged.
5. You still own the property but it is mortgaged.
6. If someone lands on the mortgaged property, they don't pay you rent. In the real world mortgages don't work this way but in the game they do.
Eventually you may want to un-mortgage the properties.
1. You pay half the value + 10% interest to the Bank. Basically 60% of the value of the property to cover the loan and the interest.
2. You flip that card right-side up. It's a real boy again.
3. If you cause someone to go bankrupt and take all their properties, you will pay an immediate 10% on each mortgaged property you collect from them. It will cost you another 10% (interest) when you decide to un-mortgage the property.
4. If you own all properties in that color set you can start building houses/hotels normally.
The most difficult part is convincing your friends to play Monopoly
Play online
@@NoOneOk Or play a good game instead.
Tell me about it
you get too good at this game no one will play you
Threats usually work
Literally watched this.
Called the whole family to play Monopoly.
Then i won.
And now im back.
Thank you
I won monopoly the other day, I only watched the video today. But I used a similar strategy. Bought as much property as possible and leveraged property that seemed valuable like green to get orange and used my property to block monopolys. I was honest with everyone in the game I told them orange is the most frequently landed on property they kept saying well no one landed their yet then bang they all dropped like flies
You convinced the family to play monopoly? Pulling off miracles there
@@LobsterFingers they convinced me, it's my girlfriends family. And they played just there today and won again using red, no one got orange as I had it.
Now your family hates you !
@shanemoran4145 Why is orange most landed on? Is it due to position relative to jail or something?
They called me a madman. I invested all into orange. Nearly the whole board against me 1v1 and I still came on top.
With a name like Madman, you must be 1960’s Spider-Man’s enemy!
I was able to turn a game around from me borderline quitting/declaring bankruptcy, to me winning solely because of those orange properties.
I think the most difficult aspect of this is game is not having a heated argument with your family after playing it
My family refuses to play me. It's been literally decades since any of them have even suggested the game anywhere around me! People seem to hate me after playing that game. I'm viscous at it.
@firecat3613 viscous means you're "syrupy" ... you mean vicious
And always remember: if the game box runs out of houses that is supposed to happen, do not use random junk to represent more. The game is finely balanced and buying out all the houses is a strategy for preventing other people from buying them. (Which also means typically you shouldn't buy hotels)
Technically true of you don't add "house rules".
The fact that this isn't even named is sus.
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I’ve done this. You just buy 4 houses. This works if it have at least 4 people playing.
@@tylerhorn3712 the issue with all of these videos explaining strategies for common household games is that everyone plays with whatever rules their aunts came up with haha
I would never ever in my life think I’d seriously watch a video about winning the Monopoly every time but I watched the whole thing. Props to you my guy!
I win Monopoly quite alot but my father is the GOAT 🐐
One other gotcha related to houses: keep a close eye on the available supply. There often aren't enough to go around, leaving some people unable to build. It may be wise to build houses on a poor color just to prevent opponents from building on theirs. Also sometimes you may not want to upgrade to hotels because those houses will go back into the supply pool.
It can happen. Just gotta get your stuff up fast! Strategy upcoming in the advanced video....
this is actually the number one strat that noone knows
ehhhh not rlly the case in my games, in them usually the guy that can get a 3 property set and build a decent amount houses first just wins (thats me most of the time lolll), so it doesnt really matter to keep an eye out for me, instead ill just build until hotels so everyone bankrupts faster
Very true good sir
Usually we just use pieces of paper or flipped hotels so signify more houses lmao
I got an ad from monopoly while watching this.
Sameeee
Same, “Monopoly Go”
Same
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I got an add for Monopoly Go while reading this comment 😭
That was my go to strategy, only problem is that the people I used to play with hated trading, so they would hoard properties without any goal in mind, and the game would come to a stalemate.
Yeah a game without trading is near impossible and will go the legendary "6 hours" game. The trick is to make trades that look better for others when they are better for you. I'm going more into detail on that and the money supply in the advanced video, hopefully can have it done soon!
@@whatswhat2022 oh my god that’s just so relatable. It’s also absolutely dumb because my family insisted on “you can only buy a house if you land on that property” rule.
If anything I don’t think we ever made anyone bankrupt and instead always end a match counting how much property value and money each person has after everyone gets bored, usually like 6 hours into the game💀.
And then those are the same people that complain that the game takes too long! Like yeah, it takes too long because you refuse to play it
@@lukefranklin5 absolutely relatable
@@lukefranklin5 yeah, the worst is when they say that they never lose in the game like "brother, you literally only take the trades that benefit you by a very large margin and refuse to trade otherwise"
Something I've learned is to try and monopolize the railroads. Hitting the middle isn't common, but having your opponents be at risk every roll leaves you having a bunch of cash on hand. Also having someone draw the chance card that states a player has to advance to a railroad but had to pay twice the rent if it's already owned also gives you a lot of support, leaving you 400 bucks richer
Yeah, but very hard to monopolize the railroads unless your opponent(s) are stupid
@@jeremywj I got lucky because my little brother didn't realize the potential the railroads had. I still lost the game because my mom went bankrupt when she owed my dad, and I had little to no properties
I love to get the railroads if possible. You will sometimes see players roll doubles and keep landing on railroads along the way. Even at 200 bucks, this will chip away at their funds nicely. My favorite groups to score will still be the orange and light blues since they are extremely probably places for people land, but the railroads mixed in with some sold coverage of the board just doom for your opponents. Especially when they get an ill timed card forcing them to them.
The railroads are good late game as well because of their value as mortgageable properties which retain their full rent price on every unmortgaged property. In a 1v1 unmortgaging the railroads is a really safe way to put property back on the board which can be liquidated at little cost again
Good tip
Also, never forget that you can "make no mistakes and still lose". Monopoly is a probabilistic game. You can own the orange properties and build up your houses and it's possible no one ever lands on them, while you always land on your opponent's undeveloped properties slowly giving them the resources to win.
These strategies do not guarantee you a win every game. They will just massively increase your win rate over a large amount of games.
That’s literally what happened to me lol I traded dark blue for orange and build houses pretty early while only one other person had a few houses but everyone just landed on the community chest and passed them for like 2-3 times only one person got bankrupted by me but I landed on green and lost almost all my money
I would easily won if 1-2 people landed on them
I bankrupted one person and got 2 full sets but didn’t have the money to pay them off and build houses
If I had the money then I would’ve had 3 streets in a row
I also bought up all the houses so it was even more perfect but I just got extremely unlucky.. even worse is that everyone seemed to land on my properties when I had to sell all my houses
Yes, unluckiness can be the deciding factor...
Another important strategy not covered here is that in the end, winning Monopoly is not about enriching yourself; It is really about bankrupting you opponents.
This is also how many people similarly do everything right and still lose.
Put simply: In Monopoly, all of your amassed riches can be taken away in a couple of moves,
but bankrupt one of your opponents, and that bankruptcy puts them out of the game for good. 👍
What's your definition of massively?
Well, 67% of the time, it works every time.
Ok I'm gonna use these tips for my next family game. I'll update you on the outcome
Update: My brother flipped the board and my parents are getting a divorce
That went pretty well
Just normal monopoly game nights, Amirite? 😅
But did you win?
A good thing to add, in the original version of monopoly (table top/board) there is a limited number of hotells and houses that you can own. Making it a good strategy to never convert houses to hotells because after a while you might take away the option entirely to buy houses or hotells from other players.
But can't they just buy a hotel at once (when paying 5 houses at once) ??
@@eezym8131 even if they saved up for that long no, they have to build the houses first
@@eezym8131 No, not according to the fine print in the rules. You can improve your properties up to a hotel in one turn but you MUST buy 4 houses on each first and then convert them into hotels.
It's like walking 10 steps from the kitchen to the bathroom. You can do that fairly quickly but if there's a big crater in the house you can't just teleport to the bathroom. You must put in your steps. In Monopoly, buying houses is your steps.
We play mega monopoly and the number of houses and hotels is the same as the standard game, so it's less mega boom and more mega recession. Sometimes you need to add or remove things from a game because the developers haven't always thought it through.
Just use some random stuff instead that is lying around, so you never run out of houses or hotels or just print more in a 3D printer.
Imagine it's family game night and they don't know you're about to run the meta strat
Fucking casuals
Monopoly meta is crazy
These peasants are going to learn who is the true genius of this family!
bye this is literally what i’m watching bc my cousins said they’d beat me in monopoly in a few days when i see them
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I probably won’t play monopoly in years idk why I’m watching this
I just finished winning for the first time monopoly! The tip abour the orange houses were very useful. After some trading, I owned the oeange color set . The only other thing I owned was the railroad next to it. I made them into hotels. Since everyone else was buying a lot of things they were broke so they mortages a lotta the lots. Those who built houses did it on the yellow and brown ones which weren’t as common to land on. When it was the finale two 90% of the map was mortaged so it was hard for my oppanang to make money so eventually they became bankrupt! Tysm!
Light blue is always the most fiercely contested in my games. If you can get those set up really fast, which you often can because they are roughly where everyone lands first, you can start your opponents bleeding cash before they get anything of their own going to recuperate it.
Yup, people land on them surprisingly often
Properties from Go and Jail are the most probable locations to land on. There's plenty of game functions that drag players to both Go and Jail, so when they roll from either of those places, 6 and 8 are second most common numbers to come up. (7 is the most likely with two dice, but Community Chest and Chance are always the 7th space.) Why the light blues and oranges are two on the highest interaction locations to own.
Same but the pink set, pal mall, Northumberland av, Whitechapel
They are a good set-up for the end. But the true power corner are the Orange and Red. Your opponent lands on Vermont with a hotel ($550). Next turn he rolls an 8 (St. James, $950). The turn after that he rolls a 7 (Indiana, $1050). This can happen a lot. In such a case, those blue properties were the beginning of the end and the emotional downfall of your opponent.
Usually a game of monopoly between me and my friends lasts more than 3 hours because all of us are not stupid and can always distinguish bad deals. Which is why the better you are at the game, the more boring it gets. We would just play until one of us gets tired and call the game a draw
yeah, the only way to win is not to play
@@benjaminschocket-greene5629 a heartbreaking truth to say the least
Try my new rule. TAKEOVER.
Land on an opponent's property, then when the opponent asks you to pay rent, Pay the Listed price of that Property PLUS Double Rent TO THE BANK instead to the owner. You can snatch their property ALONG WITH THEIR HOUSES/HOTELS.
This not only takes down stubborn traders(by potentially destroying their set and their chances of building houses), but also players who move later can gain properties, gaining them a better start instead of starting their game in a disadvantage. The downside of this is this is very likely to be more expensive than Auctions, so players will have to think twice before attempting it.
You and your friends are terrible players if you dont recognize within the first 20 minutes the pending stalemate and just keep playing the same game for hours.
@@OurFamily- You could make the game a turn limit game. My family only plays 20 turns then collects rent from the bank, then whoever has the most cash wins.
Now we pray our siblings don’t see this
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Literally sent this to my friend who i play monopoly with, might as well be a BM because he is very bad at speaking English lol
0:11 Oh my god, this video isn’t a joke. It’s legit. Wow.
Playing Settlers of Catan helped me understand the probability of numbers rolled by 2 dice. Before playing that game I never really thought about it. Great video!
that makes 2 of us
settlers of catan is a fun game and more strategic than this monopoly trash game
@@HWBlaster-ej9sw just the two of us
THIS IS GENIUS. i was playing with 3 friends the other day. We all followed this guide and we all won every game. It seems impossible, but it really works. 5/5
You were playing with 3 friends and you all won? That sounds like you won one time and lost twice. For your friend to win, you have to lose... it's funny how that works.
@@firecat3613he was telling a joke, but thanks for your autism awareness comment
It's true that 3 houses is usually the sweet spot. But even 2 houses can be painful to hit from the reds on.
Also, i'd personally be inclined to split the board more up and down, instead of diagonally from jail. That is, i would include the light blues and exclude the yellows from the frequently hit properties. People often hit the light blues coming around go.
Also, virginia, st james, and tennesse are good for extra houses for people rolling doubles coming out of jail. On the other hand, st charles, illinois, and boardwalk are card targets.
Of course, the railroads are awesome to own, though houses cannot be built on them.
Really good comment. I have a little bit about that in the advanced video, still working on. Love the light blues and they are easily a top 3 property set, but as a very simple rule of thumb, your odds of landing on are way higher between jail and the go to jail spot
Why are yellow bad ? They are in à Good part and the house are the same price as the red ones while bringing in more
railroads have the highest payback rate out of any set, but lower investment and return
I just hide a bunch of five hundreds under my side of the board. 💵🟥💴🟦💷🎲🟨🎩
When I'm losing before paying high rent to a player, you sneak one or two out of hiding and 💥,
suddenly you have enough to pay that rent, drama is avoided, and no one skips a beat about it! 🤣🥳
@@pyrosorus9880in games that I've played over the last 40 years no one ever lands on the railroads and they are never deciding factor
Recap summary was perfect! Everything you need to know in one slide!
dude i just realized this is a small channel. the quality of the video made me think you have like over 100K subs but then looked at the sub count lmao
crazy how underrated this video is, this will become big within 1 year guaranteed
I appreciate it! I've made content on other channels before, and I'm growing this channel organically so it's slow, but I like having creative control. Thanks for the show of support! Come back in a year and show how right you are!
I saw the frist one I figured that it was like 100k subs at the time too with like an animator and everything but dang 430 subs will about to be 431 subs
Same
@@whatswhat2022 i told you haha
It's being promoted by YT now, so that will help it grow.
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"And I love monkey"🧓🏻
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I have reason to believe we all like money
Very informative for new players, me and my friends have been going back and forth in monopoly for years every week so it's nothing new to us and we're all aware of everything covered but the basics are very important to understand nonetheless. Our biggest problem is trades, because we know all the best and worst to own we rarely ever make a deal to start with and it gets very complex trying to figure out who is coming out on top. One very important thing I think was missed is the limit on houses in a game, buying them without going to hotels drastically handicaps your opponents so if they try and make a deal with you and there's only 9 houses left make sure the deal is on your turn or you'll be stuck with a worthless set while they're rolling out construction. Going to hotels has proven to be me more harmful then good in 90% of scenarios especially if there's not enough houses to remove the hotels if you're in a tight spot.
Well, he did say buy 3 houses (but he doesnt specifically say dont buy hotels)
@Knarpasti yeah 3 houses is a really great tip, I wanted to expand on that and show the downside of hotels for more advanced players. I assume that's something he plans to add to his next video but I think it would of been a great addition to this one. Not buying hotels is more of a personal preference and probably applies to more advanced players, just wanted to highlight how things can go wrong after buying them
Why would you play it every week for years? It's the worst boardgame in existence. Just buy any of the thousands of actually good games that have come out in the last few decades.
Definitely can be an issue if everyone has monopolies already. A lot of your comment is addressed in the advanced video which I am hard at work on! 💪
@@arandombard1197bros never won a game of monopoly in his life 💀
This video is the excuse I needed to rope my family into playing another game of Monopoly.
Thank you.
One thing I don't like with the official rules is that you can buy houses anytime. I think it's ridiculous that when someone rolls doubles and gets closer to your property than you'd otherwise expect, that all of a sudden you can interrupt their turn and buy houses.
So, I came up with the reasonable house rule that you can ONLY buy houses on your turn and then ONLY before you roll the dice.
We have gotten to the same rule but you can do whatever you want until next player rolls the dice
I didn't know this was a thing. I've always played that you can only buy houses on your turn. Everyone I played with also plays like this.
@@theunbanned4553yep because that’s the only way that doesn’t hold up the game
Even the monopoly game that I play with friends online has this rule where you can only buy houses on your turn, but it doesn’t need to be before rolling I do t think
I think most of the world plays with your made up rule in mind. Even all fake online monopolies have it like that.
I feel that one of the most important things is mastering negotiation. For example, If I was trying to trade Boardwalk to get the Orange monopoly, I would mention how much I paid for Boardwalk in comparison to the orange which I'm receiving. But even if I was on the opposite side, I would mention that my houses cost much more than the orange property, hence why I will not accept the deal without gaining money or extra property that I would then mortgage.
Also, I like to buy random properties early in the game that I know could become very valuable later on. For example, I would offer $500 for st. James knowing that if I wait, the price will go way up. So I kind of treat it like the stock market, Buy Low Sell high.
I've been almost undefeated recently in my very competitive family monopoly game as of late, so I hope some of these strategies help you guys out
Yep, do everything you can to make your trades sound more appealing!
I think most people play this without trading.
You might be able to simplify the first two tips together - take your jail/go sides, rotate them ccw 90°, call that your attack and defence halves. If you're starting on an attack edge, be aggressive wherever you might land. The sides might be a bit far back considering the average 7 roll not being enough to clear one edge, but consider that doubles grant extra rolls, and therefore greater travel, and you'll probably even out.
Also, general monopoly tip, not necessarily for winning: set a lap limit. Most value at the end wins. Don't play to domination, that's how games drag on.
What makes you think i want a small game?
I’ve never lost a game of monopoly since watching this video, thank you.
I just finished winning for the first time monopoly! The tip abour the orange houses were very useful. After some trading, I owned the oeange color set . The only other thing I owned was the railroad next to it. I made them into hotels. Since everyone else was buying a lot of things they were broke so they mortages a lotta the lots. Those who built houses did it on the yellow and brown ones which weren’t as common to land on. When it was the finale two 90% of the map was mortaged so it was hard for my oppanang to make money so eventually they became bankrupt! Tysm!
Great content. Excellent script and pacing. Awesome use of graphics, simple yet effective. Let's get this man to a million subs! (Can't wait to see where you take the channel from here).
I appreciate it!! Hard at work on the advanced video. I have a whole list of ideas for the channel, it'll be big soon!
@@whatswhat2022 all of us are waiting for the advanced one
I watched this and smashed my regular competition FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! We've been at it for years and I always lost first or around the middle of the flock and developed a hatred for this game, but I really enjoyed myself last night, thank you! (I even made my wife cry and I now understand why the green properties suck)
Good job making your wife cry 😂
it actually depends on the number of other players, when u r up against 4 or more opponents then green r the best u can (mathematically that is) pick. and with fewer opponents its orange and red and in an 1 vs 1 its red and light blue. There is a 6 year old video on youtube where an engineer and a mathematician r talking about it
I can make my wife cry to. I just show her my paycheck!
keep that gurl in her rightful place, the kitchen
The most difficult part is to have friends.
Family?
@@AVFCreubeneither estrangement or living far away from family and not having the time to visit.
@@AVFCreubenthen comes the difficult part of getting family to join
Was wondering why the ones I play with scowl at me. Just doing my own things, but if it doesn't work out, I just give my remaining railroads to the top / luckiest player in that game for some nominal value (so I could at least stay out of debt and throw a few more dice).
I believe owning the brown properties is also a good strategy since they are extremely cheap and they are right past go meaning the area where the other players are likely to lose the money they get from passing go is larger
if they make it to GO 🤷♂️ Jail sucks a lot of players back
@@whatswhat2022 however the advance to go, nearest railroads, and to boardwalk cards help along with nearest utility
I always buy the browns and build the roi when built out is better then most other properties
The lightblue properties are great for creating a house-shortage, because they can be filled with 12 cheap houses (out of 32). They are stocked safely under your control there, until you decide to deploy them elsewhere.
Agreed the light blues are great for that, but ultimately stopping the other players from even having money to build houses is better. More about that in the advanced video, working hard on it!
Yes get then first round nobody can build anything and you win
That’s fun, until you draw a certain Card.
@@CalebN. two cards actually. But it is still worth the risk.
Monopoly is a fun game, but the major problem with it is you pretty much know who will win the game after you go around 2-3 times. After that, you just spend 2-3 hours making it official. Less than 50% of the time, ime, is the ultimate winner not obvious early on.
I guess my ultimate point is strategy really only comes into play if you and another player are even after the first 2-3 times around the board. Therefore, there is nothing you can do to win monopoly "every time". Luck is the deciding factor in 50% or more of games.
One of the reasons why I like the two cheap guys, is if you can work it, you can create a housing shortage on the blue and the brown and by refusing to create hotels there’s not enough houses for the expensive stuff. Which by the way, is one of the original points of the game.
This is pretty accurate to how I play monopoly, I also never buy hotels because then it eventually prevents other people from buying houses
Yeah why not hold people back from getting houses. Win at all costs
I’d love to hear more in an advanced strategy video. Keep doing what you’re doing!
I played monopoly for 2.5h with family and a friend 5 years ago, and even have no idea what houses are, but don't regret watching because it's very good
The second I click I get a Monopoly ad, amazing.
Overall, good strategy. However, I disagree with the early note to not buy Med / Baltic…I’ve bankrupted opponents a number of times based off just having this monopoly. They often can be something that opponents undervalue in trades (sometimes one of the few developable monopolies I can get opponents to trade) Additionally, I’ve found that a rainbow of properties in my hand allows me to help control the tempo and decide when I want to offer a trade (eg when I’ve got the cash (or ability to get cash via mtg)) that works out in my favor.
I made trades that wound up with me buying the whole ghetto (the first side past Go.) I had plenty of cash, so I immediately erected a hotel on both monopolies, plus I owned all four railroads. That move right there beat my opponents into submission. They were trying to save their cash to develop on the blue, green, and yellow properties but knew they couldn't get past me. They all conceded. Wimps.
@@lindseysummers5351 That's the winning move right there.
I love your tips they really work, please keep giving monopoly advice, your videos are great.
Thank you! I'm already working on the next one!
Thanks, this was nice information. BUT I have to say, it was super annoying to have a fake board swirling around the entire time. All I wanted to do was look at the actual board as you talked and explained positions. The visual was actively working against your content. Thanks!
I was wondering if I was gonna learn anything new here but nope, I guess my monopoly lobbies with my buddies made me an extremely knowledgeable player. Good video.
This is the best guide, he gets straight to the point and tells you exactly what you'll get out of watching the video other guides just say some BS then wtf was the point of the vid. +Sub for what's what
My wife always aims for orange and red. Idk where she learned that strategy, but she’s pretty deadly. I’ve owned all the light blue and pink with houses and almost nobody would land on light blue and every once in a while people would land on pink, but owning those places haven’t worked out for me before. Then again we were playing on the wii against 2 bots so I’m sure they were programmed to just not land on our spaces. 😂
Light blue is an early game strategy, if you don't bankrupt your opponents early on then you'll end up losing mid-late game
Light blue’s real power is in being able to buy up all the houses there for cheap. Pink is a good set, but not quite as good as orange or red. It’s cheaper, but it’s harder to bankrupt people. It’s mostly just nice for when you know the advance to st Charles is coming up and can get low risk money. But, it usually needs another set with it to secure the win.
It's not just orange and red. Owning any corner entirely will almost certainly win you the game.
I played this game like 80 times, and only like the last 4 times did I read the directions myself and learn how it is ACTUALLY meant to be played , which made all the difference to make this turn from a luck-dominant game to a strategy-dominant game. Instantly I became super interested and watched videos like this. However, none of them even talk about the most fundamental part which basically makes or ruins the game, which is the original part of auctioning properties. IMO auctioning properties to make your enemies broke is even more important than focusing on which ones you get overall to begin with. Since you can easily trade the 'bad' properties after for the good ones if you got a lot more because you played them auction-wise...
I always auction stuff not based on how much I think something is worth, but based on how much I think my opponent will pay for it, then once they... pay for it. I clean house by buying everything else on the cheap...
I watched this video because I was hoping for tips on how your average human values stuff, and how to maximize how much they pay for something, so I can take advantage of this point. But like I said, I've only played like 4 games since learning the REAL rules, and am eager to murder my opponents even more =).
That's only an advantage if you play against morons
True. Strategy can be separated into static and dynamic. Knowing "which squares to own" is static and doesn't change from one game to the next, and it will basically come down to luck if you're playing other players that did their research. Auctions and deals are dynamic and hence far more interesting.
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Straight into it, no time wasted, efficient, useful and awesome! Bravo.
Love the animations and you did a great job with pacing. A lot of videos like this go way too fast but this was felt just right and I only had to pause it or go back 2-3 times.
I agree with the math and the base strategy in this video, however I do feel like there is somethings you are not considering. There is a limit of 32 houses. Therefore the browns are cheap to build on, can drain up to 8 houses out of the total thus in my opinion making them pretty desirable. Monopoly yes, is about beating your opponents but also out surviving them, which I think this video doesn’t consider enough :)
they are the least landed on properties in the game.
I think you make trading seem a lot easier than it is. It’s rare that I find opponents willing to accept trades, even when they seem like they’d benefitting because they are also playing defensively.
Fascinating, I can’t wait to play again, thank you!
The railroads are the most underrated properties in my opinion.
Firstly, they’re easier to trade for because most people undervalue them. I’ll tell someone that i’ll only do a certain trade if they throw in their railroad, making it seem like it’s just a throwaway property.
Secondly, they’re landed on very often. It’s the only monopoly with 4 spaces on the board(2 of which are on the “jail side”, and one of them being in that 5-9 range right out of jail).
There’s also 3 chance cards that send you to a railroad(2 of which make you pay double what’s owed). The next highest is just 1 chance card.
One time i had a single person land on 3 in a row!
Thirdly, it gives you a safe space to land on on every side of the board.
And Fourth, they require very little setup. They don’t require you to buy houses but they still pay a lot of money for how often they’re landed on. They’re the best way to make money early because of this, making it easier to buy houses later, and making it harder for your opponents to buy them later too.
A lot of games, getting the railroads early can make the other monopolies not even matter. I can build houses on my bad properties and my opponents can’t build houses on their good properties.
I think railroads are the strongest. No setup makes them so strong post trades, and makes you get money really fast to setum houses on other places. They are not a winning condition by themselves, but make the game 100% times easier
There even better in the Mega Edition!😂
One of my best strategies is to buy all the rail stations and utilities at the beginning of the game ... which allows me to earn a decent Amount of money to fund my next strategy.after earning a decent amount of money I buy some cheap properties and then build hotels on them and thats how I always have an advantage against other players. (most the time this strategy works)
They can be good for syphoning in money. More on that in the advanced video, hard at work on it!
100% my strategy! It gets the weaker players out fast but then always builds the other strong players to not accept future trades because all they see is you raking in cash on owning all 4 rail stations.
Thanks ! My friends and I have a family game night and we’ve been playing for almost a month every other Saturday for game night ! Your tips helped me win last weekend ! And my wife the weekend before !
My friends and I mastered all aspects of Monopoly through junior high (risk/reward, probabilities, and the art of the deal; aka manipulation). Endless summer hours playing the game on picnic tables or in doors, among many other games. All adults who asked me to play Monopoly later in life learned very harsh lessons.
Once, during a family game of Monopoly, everybody was landing on the browns and turning them down (we weren’t using auctions) and my brother would constantly laugh and say ‘oh no, i’m so scared, i’m gonna die on the browns!”, and so just for laughs I bought the browns, got a hotel on Mediterranean, and landed on it and went bankrupt.
Incredible. Getting someone with a $250 rent right after $200 Go money to bankrupt is truly legendary
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Wow I watched 6 minutes of this video and remembered why I hate and never play Monopoly, good video I did like it just for that. 😂
0:41 Mr. Krabs moment:
Great video. I always get worried when the opponents buy green or blue properties, the rent is crazy high!
Yeah rent will kill you there, but it's also crazy expensive to develop them. As long as you can get yourself a jail side monopoly with 3 houses before they get more than 1 house on green or blue then you should be fine 🤑
Green is crazy expensive because 3 houses on 3 properties runs you $1800, but blue gets to only be $1200 bc 2 properties, for a lower chance to land, but higher kill potential. I like dark blue, but mostly when you know the advance to boardwalk card is coming up soon 😂
Absolutely solid advice, really informative and compact info.
Nice
Hot take, browns can be super useful if you get them as a set really early. $500 for hotels on both, and they pay themselves back after 2 landings on them.
The worst is when you bankrupt another player and they give everything they have to someone else for a dollar. It’s extremely poor sportsmanship but there’s no rule against it, so people do that just to spite me
I thought about making a video about that once....it really does screw you over
There is a rule. If YOU bankrupt the player, that player should GIVE YOU everything they have. If that player gone bankrupt by himself, all of the properties that he owns, should give it to the bank.
@@benjamincrawford8304 but said player can make trades before going bankrupt, so they can technically just trade all their stuff away
@@lukefranklin5 If he landed in your property, he cant trade, he goes to bankrupt inmediately.
@@benjamincrawford8304 that’s not true because if you land on someone’s property and don’t have enough money to pay them then you can make trades with other people to get enough money to pay them with
I found splitting the board and playing to 7 helpful tips I had not thought of before. I sort of always played to the second row, but that was more because the properties have a good cost to payback ratio. The 3rd row gets expensive and the 4th row is impossible. Nobody ever wins with Park Place.
Park place is very good property when you also have boardwalk. The blues are one of the best monopolies in the game
@@kenm4390 Did you watch the video? They are in one of the least trafficked parts of the board and cost a fortune to develop. Plus since there are only two of them your chances of getting a payout are 2/3 of other properties. I stay away from that whole side of the board because they are too expensive to buy and develop, but I will buy them if I land on them to trade later for better properties.
Now if you do have them and can afford to put hotels on them and someone does land on them, you win! But it is a low probability gambit.
@@Nonplused The rent is far higher than the other monopolies so if someone lands on it just once it can win you the game. And in fact it’s guaranteed that someone will land on it at least once because one of the chance cards sends you to boardwalk. If it’s getting late in the game and that card has not been drawn, the blues become the best monopoly in the game. Plus since you have to put houses on everything in the monopoly it’s cheaper to build on blue than green
@@Nonplused and if you watched the video you would’ve seen that he put the blues in the “buy” section for the very reasons I listed above
Super scary monopoly. Not very good on its own cause you are basically gambling, but they can wreck someone for sure, almost more dangerous to be against you than powerful for you. But as you wrote in your comments, it just takes one roll to win the game. Also strangely it's very cheap to develop. More upcoming on how to use them in my advanced video, hard at work on it!
Thanks, my grandma didn’t stand a chance!
Never knew I needed it. But I needed it.
A good strategy to use when playing monopoly is to get monopolies on the oranges and reds, then build a couple of houses on each of these properties. You have now created what I like to call 'death corner' which your opponents will struggle to get through without landing on one of your properties, allowing you to quickly build up cash to upgrade your properties. This results in a vicious cycle where every time somebody lands on one of your properties you can use the rent money to build more houses and maybe even hotels meaning they have to pay even more money next time they land there.
Speaking of which, don't build hotels. Use houses instead. If you put 3 or 4 houses on each of your properties, you can easily cause a housing shortage, forcing other players to go straight to building hotels if they want a good amount of rent, which can be tough if they don't have loads of money. By doing this, you can collect tons of money while losing very little since the other players most likely won't have enough money to build masses of hotels to collect cash effectively.
Just don't go too crazy with these strategies though, because if you do your friends might just get mad and quit the game before it's even over.
I actually thought there's a rule that in order to buy a hotel you must have 4 houses first.
@@davidwalker7732 for me i thought it was 3
Other players can’t build hotels if they don’t have 4 houses on each property
You need to have 4 houses on each property or have enough houses in the box to build a hotel that’s an official rule
That’s why building 4 houses on brown is a strategy so others can’t build hotels
This would have been useful information 23 years ago when I played monopoly everyday with my siblings and cousins.
Great video Bro, it was very helpful. Liked and subscribed. Now waiting for the advanced video 🙌
I appreciate it! I've started on the advanced video, anything you'd like to see in it?
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I won an otherwise lost game by absolutely bamboozling my friend through a trade, asking him to give me 2 tiles (making my pair) on jail side of board and a few cash, in return I gave him like 4 different tiles on jail side which made his 3 pairs and he had an existing pair beforehand.
He had total 4 pairs and I had only 1 but as the game goes on most of the time we both landed on jail and almost every time he had to pay me because of the dice odds whereas I paid him only like TWICE even though he had 3 pairs of tiles more than I had, he landed 4 FREAKING TIMES ON MY HOTEL even though I had only 1 pair, ultimately he lost that game, he was stunned, it was so fun bullying that annoying friend of mine. This video deserves my like and you earned a subscriber as well, pls keep making such good content, hopefully I'll get more chances to bully my friends
Please continue to upload good content. Keep up the great work man!
Working on the advanced video now! I'm glad you liked it!!
Interesting overview of the strategy...in my experiences playing this game: owning the Orange, Red and Green properties were how I won most of the time. If I didn't get at least 2 of those 3 sets, I never won, so I find it interesting that you say to never buy the green properties, but it's all probability and how you broke down the game board makes a lot of sense from strictly a mathematics point of view. There's always going to be variables though and I should mention that I've never played a game of Monopoly where people actually auctioned off properties...it was either buy the property or it went back to the bank until someone else landed on it lol
Most home games are like that. (And don't get me started about piles of money in the middle of the board waiting for someone to land on "Free Parking" like it's winning the lottery.) But play in a tournament run by a game store or the like and you will find that people are fanatical about strictly following the rules, including auctions. Usually, the only house rules in those tournaments are things which don't affect the game (such as food/drink rules), cost to play (if any), etc.
The Greens are very poor (the worst?). They are not landed upon often. People often skip them completely when landing on go to jail. They are also very expensive to build on. There are no cards that send people to them (or send them to a spot that sets them up to land on the greens). The "Go back three spaces" chance card doesn't help the greens either. The Blues get a pass because they pay out at an inflated rate and there is "advance to Boardwalk" that boosts them. Orange and reds are pure money though!
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Bro definitely saving this one cuz I hate people who wanna play Monopoly
I go for st charles because it has a landing card and is also the most landed on properties (atleast on the monopoly mobile app, idk if it is truly random), I get the light blues because they are cheap houses and a single person landing on them when they are built allows you to get your maroons to 3 if not 4 houses which can start ruining peoples games. I also always get the two browns. 4-500 for hotels and they are landed on 4-5 times per game. Also yes, they do bankrupt people, although only once they are already doomed to lose.
St Charles Place isn't even in the top ten of most landed on properties. #1 would be Illinois Ave. But the the three oranges all together are landed on more often than any other set. This makes the oranges by far the most important properties on the board.
@@holden88 ((((((( """""""" Atleast on the monopoly mobile app """"""" ))))))) Fun Fact: I actually have an entire data sheet with 1000 games played on the monopoly mobile app to see statistically which were the most landed on.
Not gonna lie I’ve been picking my friends apart with the browns
The browns are so cheap that you can get them going fast! Can be dangerous for sure!
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Might I ask why? I love the video and I almost thought you stole Moneymakers' content before seeing this comment lol
Me too
I have used the techniques and my wife had divorced, fucking me former best mate and me kids hate me bloody guts
10/10 would recommend
So I like the theory and strategy , and as far as the best properties go your theory lines up pretty well with the empirical test that was done by running tons of simulations, the only difference is that for some reason in thousands of games the green properties tend to be landed on a disproportionately high amount of times.
ua-cam.com/video/ubQXz5RBBtU/v-deo.html this video shows the testing
I just saw the "subscribe" button glitter and shine for a moment when you said "subscribe" and for a second I thought my house was haunted.
This does work!!! I’ve played with this guy, embarrassing
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In all my years playing with my friends i have never won. This will start a new chapter.
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I wasn't even watching anything related to this but it caught my eye lol. Good video!
I agree with everything but the brown properties being bad. Nobody ever wants them but there are only two and they're on the cheapest stretch of the board at 50$ per building. You can immediately put two hotels there with only 500$ and make 250 to 450 back with each tenant. I'm the one who's said to "always win monopoly" in my group and I can't count how much money these two slums made me over the years and games.
they are the least landed on properties in the game.
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something I learned on another channel: don’t buy hotels
buying hotels frees up houses for other players.
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Orange was always my favorite lol, great vid
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