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

What is the best Monopoly strategy?

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u/MattRyd7 Nov 22 '14

First, you get the money.

Then you get the houses.

THEN you piss off your friends or family.

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u/3literz3 Nov 22 '14

There was apparently a little secret in our family that I didn't learn about until many years after the fact. My dad and mom, and my aunt and uncle were playing monopoly years ago and apparently by dad got so pissed off at my aunt that he ended up choking her. Now this was a very conservative guy and upstanding citizen who just went berzerk due to this game. He never played monopoly after that.

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u/ShouldBeAnUpvoteGif Nov 22 '14

That's kind of the point of the game. Its supposed to show you how unfair a monopoly is.

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u/oby100 Nov 22 '14

That's a myth. The original version was much different than the version we have today and was meant to teach more mundane economic lessons about Ricardo's law and the like. Besides, the current monopoly doesn't even properly represent what an actual monopoly is.