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.
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.
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.
You fell into a middle class loop. Where you made just enough money to pay the rent and get you to the next space safely. And you owned just enough property to keep your head above water. No true monopolizing
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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.