How do I win at Monopoly?

Question

Does anyone know how to win at this game? I'm a SORE loser... lol and my guy beat me last night and rubbed it in my face! How do I win??

Answer 1

Well, my brother always won by cheating. So whenever we'd place chess he'd really hate it when I'd play flippantly and not caring who won/lost  while he concentrated on moves etc. Worked every time.  :)

Answer 2

When I play I usually try to buy everything I can get my hands on until I have around five  hundred left. The light blues and purples are good if you can get them all and put hotels on them. Personally I like to try for the yellows and reds because they are landed on a lot. If you can get boardwalk and parkplace great if not don't freak about it they are just two spaces on an entire board and the chances of landing on them are slim. Mostly monopoly is a game of luck.  

Answer 3

Buy as much property as you can.  Even the cheap ones pay off with some hotels on it.

Answer 4

Get all the properties and make everyone else bankrupt by building hotels and when they land on it they will have to keep selling houses and mortgaging stuff. Then they cant pay and they're bankrupt and u win!

Answer 5

1. If you land on a property always buy it! and if  you have no more money to spend because of buying propertys mortgage your propertys for extra money.

2. Another thing is sometimes the game wont get anywhere so what you need to do is make a trade with your guy benifiting you and him! And then hope that chance is on your side.

3. AND THE BIGGEST TIP OF ALL!! If you land on his property distract him from seeing you and tell him to roll!! a couple seconds later without giving him any time to think about it and that will help you when you are in debt.

          Most of this game is based off of chance so even if you follow these tips perfectly based on chance you may want to do something else.

           Hopefully chance is on your side next time.........lol

                 Good luck!

Answer 6

Buy everything and build properties. Whenever somebody lands at your place, then you'll get a lot of money. You can win after your opponents has no money.

Answer 7

The best strategy I've seen is to get a Monopoly as soon as you can, then build, build, build - even if you have to mortgage your other properties to do that. Once someone lands on your hotels, you can use that money to un-mortgage your other properties. Don't save up your money for Boardwalk or Park Place, that's a waste.

Purple and Light Blue are the best properties if you want to get hotels up fast. However, the most landed on spaces are technically the reds (Indiana, Illinois).

The oranges (New York, Tennessee) are a great way to split the difference. Houses are relatively inexpensive, and a lot of people are forced to land on them when leaving jail.

The WORST return on your investment comes from the greens (Pacific, Pennsylvania) and from the dark blues (Boardwalk and Park Place) Yes, Boardwalk has the biggest payoff, but it doesn't get landed on very much.

You have to GET a Monopoly first, then build your strategy around it. Whatever Monopoly you can get, you should build quickly, as soon as you can.

If you end up with just the railroads and the utilities, then you just have to build your strategy around them...

Other tips and strategies:

One cool trick, if you own a lot of houses, is to NOT upgrade to hotels. If all of the houses in the Monopoly set are out on the board, your opponents cannot buy houses to improve their properties. If you have enough houses on your properties, you could prevent someone else from buying them.

If you go to jail at the start of the game, when there is a lot of unsold property, it's worth paying the $50 fine to get out. But later on, when other players have houses or hotels, it's worth staying in jail the whole 3 turns, during that time you're not landing on other people's hotels, but they could be landing on yours.

Those are all the tricks I know - stay alert, pay attention to people landing on your property. Beyond that, it's the luck of the dice as to what you land on to buy.

Also, if there are any "House rules" about trading property, auctions, money on free parking, etc. be sure that everyone agrees on the rules BEFORE the game starts.

Answer 8

Well, many people try to win the game by buying the highest earning properties, namely, the Park place and the Boardwalk, well, this doesn't prove right for me. As I have tried, the Orange and Red properties are more profit oriented than the blue properties.

Another tip is, when building houses, make sure that before you build your next house, you have earned profit from your previous house rents.

Answer 9

The best return on your investment is to buy three houses. Any more than that, and the money you get doesn't go up as much for the amount you spend.

Also, know the rules. Make it clear that you won't use house rules, but the real rules. Knowing the rules better than your opponent is a big advantage.