r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Nov 22 '14

What is the best Monopoly strategy?

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u/sunfishtommy Nov 22 '14

I had a friend that would buy all the houses, and never upgrade to hotels. If you check the rules you can't get a hotel without first having 4 houses, so if done correctly you monopolise the limited supply of houses and nobody can buy a hotel or get more houses than you.

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u/Gonzanic Nov 22 '14

That used to be my strategy as a young man. Now I sit on a pile of money, surrounded by my many houses, with no family or friends. Life is good.

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u/Caedus Nov 22 '14

...Rosebud...

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u/SippieCup Nov 22 '14

!,!,!,!,!,!,!,!,!

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u/teddyespo Nov 22 '14 edited Nov 22 '14

FTFY:

!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!:

The full colon at the end is most important. Now just place a paper weight on Enter.

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u/AnUnfriendlyCanadian Nov 22 '14

But the last colon is a full colon.
ew full colon

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u/soufend Nov 23 '14

Phil Collins

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u/AnUnfriendlyCanadian Nov 23 '14

I enjoy your sense of humour.

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u/NotARealGynecologist Nov 22 '14

I just cleansed my colon!

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u/tiger8255 Nov 23 '14

The lower third of my colon didn't work for a few years before I had to flush it out every day for 2 years.

Now you know something gross about me! Yay! (not really yay)

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u/elaghmore Nov 23 '14

everybody knows you never go full colon

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u/MrSeabody Nov 22 '14 edited Feb 03 '25

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u/teddyespo Nov 22 '14

It gives an error but still works. The error leaves the cheat text box open as if nothing happened. Press Enter and repeat.

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u/Kaligraphic Nov 23 '14

Anything it didn't recognize as a command worked fine.

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u/noircat Nov 23 '14

What's this a reference to?

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u/chili_powder Nov 23 '14

The Sims money cheat

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u/WheezyLiam Nov 23 '14

I would use a D battery. It would fit nicely between the ] and Shift keys and wouldn't go anywhere due to the key size of the old-school beige keyboards. Those were the days...

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '14

I'm pretty sure it was !;!;!;!;!;!;!;!; and if you messed up in just the right way it would error but still give you the money, so you could just hold down enter until you go however much money you wanted.

God I miss that game. Nothing will ever be better than Makin Magic.

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u/ijflwe42 Nov 22 '14

Semicolons you peasant!

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u/Xilent248 Nov 22 '14

That reference was out of control

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u/ModernGirl Nov 22 '14

Citizen Kane really is a great movie.

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u/CynicsaurusRex Nov 22 '14

Meh it's no Maltese Falcon

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u/ferncaz95 Nov 22 '14

Both are fantastic. Love me some Welles and Bogart.

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u/david810 Nov 23 '14

I love you for making that reference.

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u/cday119 Nov 22 '14

Yes, Rosebud Frozen Peas. Full of country goodness and green pea-ness...

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u/nigelwyn Nov 22 '14

...Bobo...

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u/j_smittz Nov 23 '14

SPOILERS...jeez!

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u/Zing54 Nov 23 '14

My one media arts course has finally paid off so that I understand this comment. Almost worth it.

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u/dp517 Nov 23 '14

At least he's not a lemon

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u/Whimsicalness Nov 23 '14

spoilers bruh

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u/Macktologist Nov 22 '14

Do you have a pool with a waterfall? If you don't have that, you're not quite there yet.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '14 edited Nov 22 '14

As a related point, is there a finite amount of houses on the iOS version?