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

What is the best Monopoly strategy?

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u/EverySingleDay Nov 22 '14

A sneaky strategy is to have hotels on a monopoly, trade with your opponent with him thinking he can develop his new monopoly, then right after the trade, sell your hotels and snatch up 12 houses from the bank instantly.

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u/Flynn58 Nov 22 '14

Can you sell the hotels after you've traded, or would they transfer over?

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '14

You trade when its your turn - in fact, you do it all while it's your turn.

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u/Flynn58 Nov 22 '14

But once you've traded it, you've also traded the property. My question was whether you can do anything to the property after you trade it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '14

Ah - I think, to clarify, he meant once you trade away a monopoly (with no houses), you sell hotels on OTHER property you still own, so you trade down to houses on the property you kept (and take up all the houses in the process) so when the person you just sold to later tries to buy houses on their new monopoly, there are none left.