What is the Monopoly strategy with the best chance of success?

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Not that I am dead competitive or anything. Okay I normally win quiz based games. And the cube. But quite happy for others to take the honours at Twister.

However I have been press ganged into the tediousness that is Monotony for the last couple of evenings. The proceedings have concluded with me hopeless bankrupt and DH or DS crowing like they are bloody Alan Sugar.

Pointers needed please.

Buy everything you land on. Aim to own one “side” is the board (I prefer side 3 but it depends what you land on). Mortgage anything that is not on your side to fund buying houses etc.

Ds 11, is the king of monopoly.... He always saves his money to buy Park Lane and Mayfair. Once he gets a motel on there, it's just a matter of time before I'm bankrupt

I tried buying everything I landed, mortgaged stuff to buy houses. Still didn't work.

DS cleared me out with Park Lane. But the night before DH cleared us out with the brown ones.

I had the green ones but couldn't afford to put houses on them.

has the answers! Or at least looks at the likelihood of landing on any given property and so the best ones to own. It's been a while since I watched it...

Or this (it's written about the American version, but I think both have the same colours even if the actual property names are different):

When playing against just one opponent, go for the orange or light blue sets (both if you can). The same is true in a game with more opponents, but only in the early stages. Then, in a game against two or three opponents which is likely to go on for a while, it’s orange and red that you want to be targeting. And if you have any more than three opponents, green becomes your best shot for a chance at success.

I thought the object of the game was to bankrupt myself as quickly as possible leaving the other players to battle to the death while I get on with reading my book and polishing off the mince pies

Buy Park Lane and Mayfair and build houses then plonk a hotel on each of them. It's risky but usually pays off.

Hotels on the oranges and pinks. Cheap enough to build on, everyone usually lands on one at least once every turn. Stations and utilities for regular income.

We play first go round the board you can't buy anything. Then if you don't want to buy what you land on subsequently it gets auctioned. Means everything gets bought fairly quickly and you can get going with the hotels. Light blue and orange and brown seem the best strategy to me as you can't get round the board without landing on one of them but cheap enough to build on.

Hotels on Park Lane and Mayfair.

Or bankrupt yourself early, get out and let everyone else bicker the night away.

Sorry light blue, pink, and then brown.

Well, according to DH it is buy...buy....BUY! He turns into a scary power hungry creature when he plays Monopoly and takes no prisoners. I don't think any of us want to play with him any more.

Pictionary, anyone?

Being the banker and stealing the money always worked well for me as a child!!!

The orange ones are the ones to aim for as statistically people land there more via the jail square plus the roll of the dice when they get out.

Plus they are affordable to buy and develop. It's even worth buying them off other players to make the set up.

Park Lane and Mayfair are too expensive and people land on them less often as they get sent to jail before they get there.

Another tactic is to buy everything you land on because there is then there is the chance of selling them to another player at a profit (or swapping).

Eg if you have 2 oranges and Mayfair and the other player has Park Lane and the other orange, it may be worth a straight swap (but try to get some cash as well) as then you can develop the orange set and take lots of money off other players, hopefully before they can afford to develop Mayfair/Park Lane and you land on it, so you have to give them a load of cash.

Get other players tipsy and rob the bank

Hahaha love this thread. I'm a sore loser at monopoly too. Good luck OP!

Indeed, I have seen another side to DH these past two evenings I tell you: he's missed his vocation as a bailiff.

But I never realised I was such a sore loser, before I lost every game. (And if that's not a Kenny Rogers quote it ought to be)

Buy all four railway stations.
Trains are a very expensive way to travel

Buy the oranges. Vine street is landed on most statistically

The side after the jail is more likely to be landed on, so buy the orange ones if you can. Then expand to the reds and pinks either side of the oranges. This means if someone lands on the pinks (not too high a pay out) they can still land on an orange or red one and have to pay more.

Also, buy low and sell high!

Become a corrupt landlord, charge extortionate rents and don't repair your buildings when they are falling down. Oh, sorry, that is what some do in real life.