What's your strategy for Monopoly?

Question

What's your strategy for Monopoly?

Answer 1

Buy as much as you can at the beginning of the game, but make sure you don't spend all your money. Try and get entire sets - one whole side, preferably - so then people have to land on one of your properties and give you money. And then, of course, you can add houses and hotels. Don't bother with the light blue and brown properties so much, they're generally c**p, you really want the ones on the last two sides.

Answer 2

- Observe where people land on most and buy that place if you can.

- Don't buy cheap places, it'll never make you rich

- Don't spend your 500 bucks right away (well, it makes me feel good to have 500 bucks by my side while I play anyways)

- Dont spend all your money buying places. Leave at least 300 or you'll go backurpt in no time

- Just because a place is expensive and charges huge fines, doesnt mean it's good. You have to keep in mind that if nobody ever lands in it. Even huge fines wont earn you money

- Keep a positive attitude: Even when you seem near bankurptcy, keep a positive attitude and you might be able to turn things around.

Answer 3

I think the key is that you have to diversify on what properties you buy. if you have at least one of each kind of property and you limit everyone else from completing a monopoly then you have leverage on everyone else and you can wheel and deal for the properties that you want and prevent other from getting the propertries they want and once you get all of your desired properties you can start building houses and taking money.

Answer 4

oh i suck at monopoly. i truely believe that how you play monopoly is an example of your financial abilities in real life.

i like to buy all that i can my first time around.

Answer 5

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 6

I suck @ Monopoly... I think it is game of luck... than game of much strategies...  

Answer 7

my strategy would be saving as much money and then buy as many properties but have some money saved at the same time

Answer 8

i buy a reasonable amount of property and watch which ones of those people land on most and those are the ones I build on