How to Play Monopoly Step by Step?

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Hi guys, I just found this subreddit and I figured it’d be a good place to ask. I just started playing Monopoly not too long ago with my family and friends. I’m a pretty competitive person and I was wondering what is the best strategy to win Monopoly? Obviously it requires a bit of luck landing on certain spots on the board and hoping your opponent doesn’t land there first. But I personally like to target getting red, yellow, and/or green properties because they have 3 landing spots and I think they offer a fair amount of money if you can get houses up. I also find that railroads can be very useful only if you can get all 4 of them in your possession. Usually orange is another great monopoly to attain because if you’re coming out of jail there’s a high chance that your opponent can land there. I also like to hardball when it comes to trading because I find my opponents are usually always desperate for getting a monopoly, which I can use to my advantage. Lastly, I almost always avoid buying the two blues, and purple. I feel like dark blue is a high risk high reward type move, and I’m not usually one for gambling so I try and trade away dark blues to help benefit my strategy. Purple is I think the worst because they’re the lowest paying properties and there’s only two on the board. Light blue is also low paying but I’ve found sometimes can be rewarding. So to summarize my strategy, I like to get my hands on red, yellow, and/or green. If I can get orange that would be nice, but I’d need one of the other three colours I’ve listen to help me get more money, and usually the 4 railroads are underrated (when I play) so getting my hands on all of those are very close to a priority to me. And I try and trade away purple, light, and dark blue properties away because they don’t really fit my game plan. Sorry this was so long, it’d help out a lot if you guys could leave your thoughts and opinions. Thank you

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MacMinty · 4 years ago

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.

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kendiesel937 · 4 years ago

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.

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DreGotDaSauce · OP · 4 years ago

Very aggressive approach, I like it. I’m no salesperson but I’m pretty damn good at making trades. When I offer someone a trade and they decline it because they don’t think it’s fair, they usually always come back to me and the trade just benefits me more because now they’re more desperate. I never play with house rules anyway, and I always buy every property because it always gives you more leverage.

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Physical-Rhubarb7271 · 1 year ago

Just did this and lost.

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[deleted] · 4 years ago

Im not a fan of house rules, but my game group insists on using them all the time

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kendiesel937 · 4 years ago

Explain to them that they break the game & make it last longer.

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MarcoPolio8 · 4 years ago

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.

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Pecker2002 · 4 years ago

This is absolutely the key. I love when a player has to sell a hotel to get cash and their aren’t any houses available. They go from a maxed out property to nothing. Sweet justice.

I only ever buy hotels if it’s to free up houses for me to buy immediately.

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MarcoPolio8 · 4 years ago

Oh! I did not think/know that downsizing a hotel during a housing shortage caused that much damage. Thanks for the info.

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Ganjjii · 4 years ago

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

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Ohrami2 · 4 years ago

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.

Buy everything you land on early in the game.
Attempt to acquire a monopoly through trading or by luck of the dice.
Build as many houses as you can on your acquired monopoly.
Use those houses to bankrupt your opponents.
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.

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r/Showerthoughts • [2]

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If someone asks for the instructions whilst playing Monopoly, you know shit is about to get down.

Posted by Phasyo · in r/Showerthoughts · 6 years ago

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As Long As You're Under My Roof, You'll Play By My Monopoly Rules

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Macluawn · 6 years ago

Monopoly actually is a rather quick game, if you play by the official rules.

Most common misunderstood rules:

a) if no one buys a property, it must go up for auction. Properties are gone faster, leading to monopolies earlier in the game.

b) Free parking does not mean free $x00. Cash injections prolong the game.

c) Dont use extra items as houses or hotels. They’re not meant to be enough for everyone.

I recommend playing with these additional rules for faster games:

a) Remove hotels. Just keep the houses.

b) After all properties are bought, no monopoly exists and no one wants to trade - end the game and call it a draw.

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GolemThe3rd · 6 years ago

I notice it takes about an hour or two, I play the console game (which forces you to play by the rules) and that's usually how long they last (granted you skip all the setup, dealing money, and cleanup)

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I_R_Teh_Taco · 6 years ago

My brother and i played the wii version once, where you bid with either the A button or raising the wiimote. We got it to the stupid as hell value of $1400 on my bid for one of those shitty properties on the first side of the square after “go.” He puts the wiimote down and it takes that motion to mean “bid every last dollar.” He had no money two turns into the game. 10/10 would bid again

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DeSwagmaster · 6 years ago

Once a game lasted 3 days

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ScreemingLemon · 6 years ago

The game ends when someone throws the game board across the room. ......I'm pretty sure it's in the rule book.

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TheGriffonMage · 6 years ago

How is this a shower thought tho..

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abbadon420 · 6 years ago

You've never played monopoly under the shower with your family?

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sofingclever · 6 years ago

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ron___ · 6 years ago

Everyone's a lawyer at that point.

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Eadword · 6 years ago

I may have a friend or two that will do this. Let's just say they have lots of fun DnD stories.

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r/AskReddit • [3]

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What is your monopoly strategy?

Posted by Dejanerated · in r/AskReddit · 3 months ago

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RSFatm94 · 3 months ago

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

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Dargus007 · 3 months ago

One time my buddy only bought houses, never upgrading to hotels. Soon there were no house pieces left. No one could buy houses.

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DeuceSevin · 3 months ago

You buy hotels as soon as you could afford to if you are the only monopoly. Then you sell them back to 4 houses to suck up the remaining houses as soon as there is monopoly by another player, locking them out of the market.

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Numerous-Power9109 · 3 months ago

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

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FerricDonkey · 3 months ago

The only winning move is not to play.

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RogerMurdockCo-Pilot · 3 months ago

Joshua?

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UltraCoolPimpDaddy · 3 months ago

Funny since that was on this morning

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Top-Bed-978 · 3 months ago

Buy everything I land on

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globaldu · 3 months ago

The first rule of Monopoly.

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Tricky_Acanthaceae39 · 3 months ago

The second rule is to hold it.

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SnowlabFFN · 3 months ago

This. Eventually I'll be able to trade for a color group, and then slowly grind my opponents into submission.

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Mammoth_Ad_1769 · 3 months ago

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

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r/Monopoly_GO • [4]

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How to play tutorial

Posted by Areasony · in r/Monopoly_GO · 1 year ago

I just kinda jumped in clicking things. But I didn't play Monopoly much so have no idea what I'm doing. I see strategy being discussed around tournies. I'm wondering if I should role with a 2x multiplier or bump it up.

Embarrassed to admit I have no idea what the red and green houses mean, or which is better. Can someone point me in the right direction of where I can learn the basics of the game and strategy? It'd be great to pin to this sub.

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r/Monopoly_GO • [5]

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Monopoly is PLAYING with me!!!

Posted by Designer_Status_1130 · in r/Monopoly_GO · 6 months ago

I have been manually rolling, counting out 6-9 spaces hopefully landing on either the heart or top banner. This is my 5TH time around,,,😡😡🤬

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OkTap7225 · 6 months ago

doing better then me good luck 🍀

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r/Seaofthieves • [6]

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Did anyone even read the instructions to "Monopoly"?

Posted by FatherUncleDad · in r/Seaofthieves · 6 years ago

I remember when I was little I played a month long session of "Monopoly" with my brother. Great times. Even my parents were amused by the length of the game we played. It was really fun. Years later, I was told that, for many years during my childhood, I was not playing the game as intended. There is a whole set of rules regarding trading, buying/selling of property, and the like I was never aware of. That in no way diminished the fun of the game for both myself and my brother, nor did it matter to the developers, who took the time to write those rules on the back of the board game lid we so nonchalantly just threw to the side.

Years later, I will see a huge debate about how a video game is played vs how it was intended to be played. All of the sudden I would see some twitch steamer (please, someone explain how watching someone else playing a game is entertaining enough for them to make a living out of it) cause a heated debate over how people want to play a game vs how some people say they should play the game. If the game (devoid of cheats or exploits) allows someone to play the game a certain way, let them play that game that way. That includes both people who wish to form a Sea of Thieves PVE only servers to grind for rep and gold, and for people to make those people's effort as tough as possible. I can tell you one thing about Sea of Thieves that has yet to be mentioned...it was NEVER designed to be a PVE only game. It was also NEVER designed to be a PVE only game that summit1g would invade and cause havoc. The game is what we made it. Can we just enjoy it?

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[deleted] · 6 years ago

Who’s summit and what he do?

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-Omega-Gaming- · 6 years ago

Hes a twitch streamer who invades fleet servers and easily ruins their fleet (due to them sucking all the ass at pvp thus why they need the fleet server to make money) and I may not like the guy all that much. But he is my hero for the work he is doing. In the stream hes doing with the devs they will discuss fixing double guns and fixing the fleet servers. So no more "PvE" servers >:^)

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[deleted] · 6 years ago

Why don’t you want PvE servers?

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BanksAegis · 6 years ago

This is a dead topic. I think we get the point that some people dont like Summit after 15 to 20 posts a day on him.

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TheBigSm0ke · 6 years ago

Man Summit owns a whole lot of real estate in this subs head. Get over it.

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Colley619 · 6 years ago

Ugh. Another one? These need to be banned.

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tommstarkey · 6 years ago

in Monopoly, did you or your brother ever roll a 6 on the dice, then move 9 spaces? because that would be an exploit. and that's not fun, that's lame. and anything you achieve when you do that is practically meaningless.

the game was quite clearly not intended to be made PvE, as the servers have no support for it, and to make it happen, you use an exploit to cycle players out to fill it with your people.

I think when people say "there is no proper way to play the game, it is what you make it" is more to do with, "you could do only merchant alliance quests!" or, "you could only PvP!" or "you can stick to exploring and adventuring if you want!" rather than "You can exploit and fill the server with your allies to loot without worry!"

Also the reason people are so upset is because of the influx of blatantly PVE server loot hauls that get posted on here. Just means very little when there was 0% risk involved.

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r/WatchandLearn • [7]

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How to Play Monopoly in under 30 minutes.

Posted by trongs24 · in r/WatchandLearn · 5 years ago

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Trolllullul80 · 5 years ago

The real rules make the game not last longer than 2 hours but everyone omits the most vital rule that makes the game not drag on.

“If you do not wish to buy the property, the Banker sells it at auction to the highest bidder. The buyer pays the Bank the amount of the bid in cash and receives the Title Deed card for that property. Any player, including the one who declined the option to buy it at the printed price, may bid. Bidding may start at any price.”

I also feel like only playing monopoly for 30 mins is a little too short and you would spend more then 30 mins explaining everyone all these rule changes.

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salami1090 · 5 years ago

More like how to play Monopoly without having any fun

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TheHandlebarRanger · 5 years ago

No the real way to play Monopoly and have not have any fun is to do it as part of a financial accounting class. What these rules add is that you have to do T balance equations for all of your purchases and properties: debits credits and depreciation. How do you calculate depreciation? Well each round of go is one year so you depreciate the value of your property with each year. And honestly I thought I hated the game enough before that.

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Empoleon_Master · 5 years ago

I think there’s a better option, play a game better than monopoly and save everyone’s time.

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Pacattack57 · 5 years ago

Like ticket to ride

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Mr_Venom · 5 years ago

Pandemic! A much better game for mixed ability family groups.

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lexilazybones · 5 years ago

Came here to ask if anyone holds memory of the monopoly man having a monocle?

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ToddTheOdd · 5 years ago

I remember when in Ace Ventura 2, Ace knocks that one old fucker out and does the whole "Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200" because the guy looks like the Monopoly Man, that that old fucker had a monocle.

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THapps · 5 years ago

Wait he doesn't have a monocle?

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Hamish89 · 5 years ago

Pretty sure the last time I played there was a ‘quick game’ set of rules as well, so this video is really not necessary.

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Pacattack57 · 5 years ago

“Throw out the house rules”. Proceeds to make house rules.

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fraggleroni · 5 years ago

They actually said to "remove all the house rules that bring extra money into the game" not just "all the house rules."

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r/theGoldenGirls • [8]

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Nothing like a game of Monopoly.

Posted by PearlieVictorious · in r/theGoldenGirls · 7 months ago

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solitaryvenus2727 · 7 months ago

Where did you get this!?!? I MUST HAVE IT!! 🥰🥰

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PearlieVictorious · OP · 7 months ago

It was a gift from my husband a few years ago.

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WhatHuhYes · 7 months ago

I have the GG Clue.

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panicseasy · 7 months ago

Dominic Tanzy he got 4 women pregnant in 1 night 2 in new York 2 in New Jersey

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[deleted] · 7 months ago

I needs it!!!! Where did you find it????!!!!

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mbruno3 · 7 months ago

They really do make Monopoly themed around just about anything you can think of.

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r/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon • [9]

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[Thanks] for the fun game!

Posted by WorldlinessOk7083 · in r/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon · 2 months ago

u/Cassopeia88 thank you so much! I can't wait to play this. I've been wanting it for a while! And who can resist Monopoly that doesn't take hours?!? 🤣

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catsaysrawr · 2 months ago

I didn't even know a card one existed cool!

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WorldlinessOk7083 · OP · 2 months ago

Me either!

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meulincat · 2 months ago

Fighting speed run?

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Noimnotsally · 2 months ago

Yay for a fun favorite 😍

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