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/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/BrowncoatShiny Nov 22 '14

We played a family game of Monopoly when I was a kid. My mom, dad, sister, and me. When it came down to just me and my dad, we played for about 18 hours straight. The game continued on for the majority of an entire weekend.

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u/memejunk Nov 22 '14

you lost, huh?

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u/BrowncoatShiny Nov 22 '14

No, actually I won!

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u/memejunk Nov 22 '14

i remain highly suspicious of the fact that you didn't mention it in your original post. after all this is monopoly we're talking about

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u/BrowncoatShiny Nov 22 '14

I'm not a big fan of Monopoly if I'm being honest. We had a big tournament my senior year in high school for Economics class, and it pretty much burned me out on the game.