OP, while I strongly disagree with you on Monopoly being good, or interesting, or deep:

If you feel this way about Monopoly you owe it to yourself to try better, more modern games

Terra Mystica, Ra, The Quest for El Dorado, Concordia, Castles of Burgundy, Viticulture, Brass, Cascadia, Agricola, Terraforming Mars, Ark Nova, Sidereal Confluence —there are so many games that are so much more interesting, fun, deep, better looking, etc to try. Way better ways to spend your time off a screen

The explicit intent of the original version of Monopoly, was to embody how unfair life is for people without property. It's a roleplaying the ruin of smaller players by bigger ones. The depression and ill will is the point.

Yeah sure, this might make monopoly better... but it still isnt that good. At the end of the game you just roll a dice and hope you dont end up on a bad square and games can last ages with nothing happening and very little decisions involved.

Genuinely who the hell has ever played monopoly in a way that you make deals like “give me Mayfair and I’ll make your next 2 landings on Mayfair or park road not cost you anything”

I know some weird house rules in monopoly but I have never heard a single person ever play with deals that are anything more than property for property or property for property and money

Edit; from the comments yall apparently play frankenmonopoly, no wonder yall hate it

In uni my housemates and I played the shit out of Monopoly, but on the PS2 which allowed for super fast gameplay. Multiple games a night, no bullshit rules. Holy shit it led to some screaming matches and memorable moments we still use as in-jokes.

No wonder people don’t like monopoly, those rules sound absolutely horrible

Compared to modern games, the amount of decisions in monopoly is quite lacking. I agree the game is better when playing rules as written, but "fantastic" is quite a stretch...it's nowhere near my top 100 board games. I guess I agree it's an unpopular opinion, so kudos I suppose

1: Learn the rules. Easy. You've probably already done it, just make sure you know the lesser known rules too.

2: To a reasonable extent; analyze, interpret, and learn most of the information on this page (no need to read about the matrices near the end or even to memorize any specific information, just pick up on the gist of what's better than what).

3: Trading. I'm not even close to an expert on this topic, but basically just be really smart and be a good negotiator. If we wanted to go in depth on trading tactics, we certainly could have a discussion, but this thread would probably be longer than the Bible if we covered everything.

You gotta go hard. Buy buy buy. Every property you can. Mortgage broken up sets to buy buildings for your monopolies. Be stubborn on trades. No house rules. They break the game.

One strategy that hasn’t been mentioned yet is creating a housing shortage. If you are able to get some monopolies on the dark purple, light blue, or light purple, build as many houses as you can. Most people aren’t aware of the rule that if houses run out, no more can be built. If you can achieve that, that stops others from upgrading their properties. Standard games have 32 houses and building 12 on a monopoly or 24 on two can put sizable dents into the number left for purchase.

It's simple. Dont play to win. Play ti make everyone else lose.

There's not really a "strategy to win". Getting good at Monopoly takes dozens of hours of work in studying and practice. If you want "fundamental basic pointers", that's the best anyone can give you.

1. Buy everything you land on early in the game.

2. Attempt to acquire a monopoly through trading or by luck of the dice.

3. Build as many houses as you can on your acquired monopoly.

4. Use those houses to bankrupt your opponents.

5. Use your further acquired properties to collect more monopolies and continue the process.

That's quite literally your basic game plan. Obviously, the better a monopoly you have (oranges, red, yellow are top tier, greens and dark blues are quite bad, purples aren't really game-winners, and pink/light blue are mediocre), the more money you have to build houses with (and thus the higher your rents are and the more damage you yourself can sustain), the earlier you are landed on (relative board position of all players' pieces at the time of a trade execution), and the more properties you get as leverage, the better.

Early game, pay to get out of jail immediately. Late game, when major rents are possible to pay for, don't pay, and stay in jail as long as possible.

Look up the probabilities properties are landed on. Generally, the more landed on ones are better, and the less landed on ones are worse. The cost of houses is also very important, with cheaper houses always being better.

That's basically all the basic advice I can give you without going into in-depth or advanced strategy.

Buy basically everything you land on. Trade asap to get a set and start buying houses and hotels

I own the board, and I tax the players who play with my board.

The only winning move is not to play. 

Buy everything I land on

don't play because nobody else has the mental fortitude to make it to the end

A common problem is that many people don't actually play by the rules. Many of the ignored and/or house rules unnecessary prolong the game. For example, adding rules that gives the players extra money (so they take longer to go bankrupt) or ignoring rules that are meant to speed up the game - for example, players are allowed and encouraged to trade, and if a player lands on a property but doesn't buy it, it goes on auction, allowing anyone to buy it. This means that properties get sold a lot faster.

I think 80% of Monopoly's continued existence is the licensed editions, so unimaginative people can have easy, relatively inexpensive gift options for people they don't know well, but know they like [a thing].

Not anyone who likes board games.

I enjoy it

The funniest part is that we somehow had like 50 versions of it- classic, Millennium Edition, Disney, sports teams, etc etc. We played a lot when I was a kid but it was a game that never got finished and no one ever won. The start was fun, so we played until it annoyed us (or we annoyed each other) and moved on to something else.

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Who says you can't trade until they are all sold?

That's not a rule.

Monopoly is funny. The whole point of the game, the only way to win, is to make the other players lose. So if you are going to take it personally that I'm trying to bankrupt you, then you shouldn't be playing.

If youre not trading properties before all of them are sold, I think youre the one who doesn't know how to play. :p

Wow! Just started a game, and someone got sent to jail immediately after their first turn, and now the entire game is over, and two players hadn’t even got a chance to take their first turn. This is absolutely ridiculous!!! Why would they even start a game then if they don’t plan on actually finishing it?

If your game is taking much more than an hour, you aren't playing by the real rules.

Same. I can never find anyone to finish a game with me. Even playing express monopoly I cannot find people to finish it with.

I agree. If someone is never going to trade anything, and just circling the board, I'll concede and drop out. But I'll first ask them why they decided to play in the first place. You can't win without trading.

But I can usually find a way around them with other players.

Two person games suck.

If you go thur and not hit a couple of tiles switch your token it see me s to help out switch out every 8 to 10 min to different ones it works

I'm pretty sure there logic is people are gonna buy dice in order to reach the dice milestones. Reason we fall short right at the end. Only logical explanation i can think of. Well... I'm not dropping a dime on this game. Lol.

There is a reason that I refuse to keep rolling right before those types of rewards. Just a dice burner at that point

They did the same to me

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I spent over 7k dice today also 🤦

And they still didn’t answer how he likes to handle it when someone lands on a rental space they can’t afford, and if they allow a third party to trade and get involved and to what extent that can take place.

Trade a lot, and have fun!

"What, you're not supposed to put money under Free Parking?"

"No here is how you actually play"

I feel like a lot of videos go like this

If you simply log on every day and collect every bonus they give you throught the day, you should be able to pick up over 200 rolls. Save them and use only single rolls to complete the daily tasks. After three weeks you should have 5K in dice, and thats when you go nuts on whatever event and tournament is running. It is much more satisfying picking up stickers you would otherwise have no shot at during a daily grind.

Avoid chasing dice bonuses, you will spend way more dice than what you get back. Always a net loss.

People are buying them honestly no other way around it . This game rewards people who make purchases

Slow progress at first, use your dice to get the stickers from the event, from there you could finish your set then get more dice. As its gradually increasing, be smart with the multiplier. Only increase it when you’re 7-9 tile from your target tile. 9 works the best for me

^^ exactly!!

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