My family and i are gonna play monopoly, me thinking im smart watching this video, only to hear my dad in the other room watching the same video 😂😂 Hope no one murders me in this round of monopoly cause we are in lockdown and my family is competitive af

My best tactics are: -owning all railway stations -buying one of each colour (whenever possible) to prevent properties being built -building on light blues and oranges

We've been playing this everyday since the start of quarantine. For the first time I won yesterdayyyyy. I owned half the board having 6 hotels and 6 houses.

I played my sister and brother in law yesterday, my sister had owned the brown, light blue, and violet properties with one house on each property. My bro in law had a monopoly on the yellow & green proprieties, with one house. I only had the orange ones, and I had 3 houses on each property. I bankrupted all of them. Orange properties are now my favorite properties.

If u own the reds and oranges you win

This is literally like a business informational video and i love it

Oranges are the best monopoly in the game they are landed on often have high rent and not to expensive to build on greens are the worst and not even worth trading for they are expensive to build on and are not that much more expensive than the yellows and they are not landed on often the railroads are barely worth trading for and are only good paired with other monopolies the dark blues are highly over ranked and you can swindle some people with them that is my property advice-trading the oranges are every thing trade away your whole monopoly if you have to to get the oranges make sure to have some leverage and it is a good idea to trade for leverage for instance you need that last orange but johny has it but johny wants the last yellow but Dug has the last yellow trade for that yellow so you can get the oranges and that’s what I haft to say about trading-building if you have the money always get three houses right of the bat because the difference in price between 2 houses and 3 house is huge another thing is house hoarding this take two monopolies to be affective basically instead of going to hotels you stay at four house on each property this is a total of 24 houses which leaves only 8 houses two build with with means no hotels for anybody unless they already have them and by the way monopoly is way better when you play by rules and I know the chances of someone reading this whole thing is slim but I don’t care

My family plays this every thanksgiving and they are literally the worst bunch of ppl to play with. They make deals, the game goes on for HOURS and if you’re not a rookie, you get eaten alive. This saved me. Thanks !!

I agree with everything except tip 9. If you’re short on money you should never sell houses if you can avoid it, those are the best way to increase income through the game. Other properties will always stay the same, once you start selling houses then you usually can’t make the money back to buy them again

Thx im gonna win against my dad next time

Great tips!! My family added our own rules which makes it more rewarding. 1. If you land on 'Go' you get 400 2. If you go to jail 4 times, you are out 3. You don't need to buy houses evenly 4. We bought more houses separately so there is always enough houses 5. If you land on free parking you get the money that goes in the middle from fees and tax

Who else has the house rule where free parking gets the money people pay into the middle?

I got my dad to pay two thousand dollars with a hotel on the last blue space. Twice.

People thought I was insane when I was willing to give up 3 properties ,2 railroads and some cash for that one property I needed to complete a monopoly. When the deal was made, I placed 4 houses on each property and starting wiping folks out left and right. It's something about pink and orange, especially orange!

i once won a game, with at one point having $20 and my opponent has $3000

I love the use of probability to show why the reasons are valid, this game really is a work of art

Thx I’ll use this for playing against my imaginary friends...

Doing some ROI math you can conclude following additional strategy points: - never buy stations, they have the least rio, worse than the first property (the only reason to do so is to trade and get a color set OR to block another player from the full set) - focus on buying the 2nd color of properties per lane - build hotels in the first half of the board - build 3 houses max on the second half of the board (more properties = more chances of cashing in) - If you can buy a house at 50% at the auction, do so, as it's a zero sum, the mortage is always 50% - When accumulating money, focus on getting 3 houses in one color first, because it gives a huge jump in income (this rule applies to all properties). Once you have 3 houses on 1 color, focus on the next color for 3 houses. If you don't have another color, go upgrade to hotel if it's the first half of the board, else focus on trading to get that new color. - the first house REALLY sucks compared to the rest of the board

I won all the games that my sister,dad and I played.Tip always buy the dark blue spaces even if they are expensive,do not be afraid to buy properties because of how much money you need to save just buy buy buy because at the end of the day you can still sell them and if you haven't sold then then someone will still pay for landing at your space.Trust me you will have millions of bucks if you do that.Another thing is if you land in a place that you need to pay for try to not sell your property but instead sell the homes in it so that no one can steal your place when you sell it,like I said dont be afraid to buy buy buy.Thirdly if you dont have money dont be afraid to sell sell selll🤣 even if its painful but remember to sell the houses not the actual property and you will get back on your feet if you do that (if you dont you will surely be bankrupt and lose).If all properties are finished make sure to make someone sell their property to pay you then you should immediately buy his/her property as soon as you land on it to give you more chance of getting the other person to be bankrupt and you getting more money!!!!!Hahahahaha and that is how you win in my opinion I haven't watched this video so if it they use similar tactics it's a coincidence. One other thing if it's a family member or friend dont be afraid to take their money even if they cry.!!!!NO DISCOUNTS!!!.That's what happens to most people then they lose then they bring up the discounts that they gave you then there is a fight then they call you a sore loser.

Wait has anybody actually played with that auction rule in place when somebody passes on a property? Sounds like all hell would break loose.

With the Tip 10, Usually when i play with friends we add a rule here, if you ar ein jail you can't receive your rents. We didt it because in late game usually we just sit there and the games becomes quite boring and over extend a lot.

I've always thought Reds were the best since I was young, but I never really knew at all. I just thought they had the best balance, since there are 3 of them, they got landed on pretty often, they were in the middle of the board more or less, and they were not super expensive while also providing pretty good payout.

Thanks for this informative and humorous video ⭐️

I crushed my friends with the whole bottom half with hotels, utilities and railroads

if chance card that sends youu to breadwalk has not been drawn for a time, try slowly building houses there, once it is drawn immediately sell those houses and if u want to do what i do, i mortage them too, and possibly sell to other players.

07:15 You may have monopolized me in this time but you see I’ll be back with the bigger and better top hat I mean strategy

I definitely need some of those tips, tysm! :)

Thank you for the extra tips!

This guy talked about monopoly like it’s the stock market

Good tips....Especially the probability if rolling a 6 and 7...I will definitely keep that in mind....,

This was awesome, my partner and I recently bought Monopoly for Nintendo Switch so we are playing it a lot more than we normally would. I have always been terrible at it as i've often ignored the lesser valued areas and gone for the greens and dark blues. Cheers I will try and stick with this.

Defiantly saving this video to rewatch for next time I play

Thank you, last time I played I got demolished.... and now I want to win so badly....

I just noticed ur shirt. Absolutely love it

I won family game night thank you so much☺️☺️

why am i actually making notes

I have an extra tip about when to save cash: Maybe from mid game to late game. Let's imagine you recently completed a color group. You have the capacity for starting to immediately build some houses. Don't use your money yet to buy the houses if all your opponents are still pretty far from your color group. Retain your money until your opponents are approaching your color group ( from 10 to 6 squares away ). If one of those opponents has the next turn, tell him to wait before throwing the dice ( As you said in your video, you can build houses even if it's not during your turn ). Buy the houses and then let him know when you're done. It is likely he will land there because 7 is the most likely number followed by 6 and 8. Another case when to save money is when you already bought some houses and there is also at least one opponent who has a complete color group with some houses. You have money to buy more houses but you are approaching his color group. Don't rush. First try to bypass all his properties of the complete color group he has. If you are from 6 to 10 squares away, it is highly risky to spend your money specially if you wouldn't be able to pay the rent without having to sell your houses to the bank. Hold the cash you have in order to protect your houses in case you get an unlucky roll. In case you get to bypass his color group after rolling the dice, then you can spend money to add more houses in your color group and specially if there is at least one opponent approaching your color group. The idea ( from the moment you have houses in your color group ) is to try to gradually create a cash buffer in order to protect your houses so that you never have to sell your houses to the bank for paying a rent.

Thank u very much

This was really helpful

bro thx this has help me to come up with a strategie :)

My entire family goes for Illinois Avenue since we always land there. In total from about three games, around a total of $13,000 has been made from everyone combined. So when it is bought, we all start arguing lmao

Very useful, thanks!

I only knew number 10, thnx for the tips

Usually I try to buy brown and light blue properties and give whoever is selling me them an irresistibly high profit, but then I can cheaply put hotels on them and make massive profit

That stay on jail tip is game changing honestly...like of course..you can just /stay there/

Thankyou for this video For the last 6 years of my life I have always lost an monopoly game to my mom we have played about 169 rounds hopefully I may win today

great tips!

Thank you, I got absolutely obliterated by my friends & now I have to clap back

Thanks for the help! I appreciate it!

i love this, this is the best video, your comedy style is on point my guy, i love the top hat guy too, you are a great youtuber, please make more monopoly content!

Ive always felt like light blues are the building blocks for the bigger ones like a 600 payout on Pentonville can help you build on the yellows and reds same goes for Pinks or Oranges I still feel like oranges are the best set to get in the game but if you have one of the bigger ones such as the green or a dark blue those are the ones that can kill a game instantly. So my advice would be hundred percent try and get the oranges but always try and get one of the yellows reds or even dark green if you have to as a back up because but orange is pink and the light blues are the building blocks for you to pay for the other colour sets.

This is one of the best vids I have ever seen, you're awesome!!!!

After all these years i finally mastered the arts of monopoly

With 2 players it is best to own light blue and orange, 3 players then orange and red and 4 players green is the best. Also only build 3 houses max on any site thus restricting purchase of houses by opponents. See Hannah Fry on Numberphile who has written a book on the subject.

the only Monopoly game i ever won was by owning the 3 red spaces & the 4 railway's also, we always use the housrules of -no auctions -incomes go to the center & free parking gets the center money

Yo nice work on the vid, don't stop :)

New favorite channel

Thanks for the tips, although with the kind of people I play with you don’t need any kind of strategy to win

Paying the 10% of value is sometimes more than $200. It’s hardly less than $200, unless you’re losing. Mortgaging a boardwalk property in order to keep a third house on a monopoly is a much better option than taking the house off. That boardwalk rent is worth only $50, while that house is worth $300+. Mortgaging non-monopoly properties is almost always better than getting rid of houses on your monopoly. The houses have a much better rent and return. But of course, there are always situations that call for flexibility in our strategy

*THATS 10 PERCENT*

Im playing monopoly with my siblings and bro in law, my bro in law plays very evil tho 😂, all of us ended getting bankrupt, i really think he’s playing lies by secretly stealing money first before we play-

Some tips: The light blues are one of the bests cards in my opinion. When you wanna buy some house it’s only 50 dollars for each house .- Brown Brown is like the light blues it cost 50 each .

I have two issues with this. One is buying rail roads. Even though they may be cheap, 400 isn't that much in the late game My second issue is about morgaging. You should all morgage the properties that you only own to stop the oppenent from developing, as the income most likely come back to be equal.

Since my first game of monopoly I loved the railroads and every time somone takes my railroads and get angry

this is the best tutorial, have a LIKE.

I personally like the cheaper properties like the light blue ones cuz u can build them up fast I literally got skyscrapers on all of the light blue ones ( I have the mega version of monopoly)

Thanks! 😀👍

I just beat my dad today. It took 3 hours! But it was the greatest monopoly comeback ever.

Regarding Chance and Community Chest is it more customary to shuffle at the beginning of the game, and then take from the top, put on the bottom, or to shuffle thoroughly each time someone takes a card? Obviously if you don't shuffle you can get a sense for what has come up and what is likely to come up soon, and if shuffled that possibility is removed, which I'd argue probably makes for a "more even" game.

my sister has always owned the light blue ones & they’re honestly the best. my auntie bought hotels on mayfair & parklane and i was the only one who landed on it twice 💀 4000 gone on her.

Best strats from someone who played a lot : don’t buy utilities Anything you land on, buy it Oranges and light blue are by far the best Boardwalk is overrated Be ruthless with your trades Cheat Know the cards and how much it costs to build on each property set so you can negotiate better

Thanks, got a 5 man monopoly game tonight…Wish me luck 🍀 Update: No joke a power cut happened at my brothers house during the endgame…I had only pink street with houses

I can agree with this I played against my sis and brother and at first I had like no properties except for 2 railroads and a yellow I think and I decided to buy the properties between free parking and jail since no one had them but I eventually won with a bit of luck since we had the free parking money thing and we played with speed die

I'm not sure about tip no9 to sell houses first. I read many suggest that building houses is crucial so we should mortgage everything just to buld asap.

My basic strategy is get a full deck of red, orange and light blue. By this point it'll usually just be me and another two players left. Then I focus my attention on the more expensive properties, specifically green and dark blue. Finally, I watch my oppenent shrivel up in their crippling defeat.

I like to buy out the railroads and utilities. Then I'll try and buy as many properties as I can buy either landing on them or bribing others to get them. If I don't have enough money I will mortgage other properties. It means I will have less money and have to pay to unmortgage them, but I view it as a necessary risk to take. If I had to make an estimate, it has worked for me about 75-80% of the time. Basically Properties > Money in Early game

My favorite are blue and Brown , they have the highest money you get with an hotel / price you pay , allowing me to start out more aggressively on the early stages . Though i change strat and ho for the purple or Brown ones if i cant get the blue ones . P

Lmao my family plays in 5 mins and I can hear my brother watching the same video lol

Bro I swear down this is the snakiest game I've ever played

00:04 I’m keen on investing in some properties do you have any good suggestions

Alright, so me, my little brother, my sister and her friend all played Monopoly, but it's the Pittsburgh In A Box game. It's my favorite board game of all time. I have the 3 properties just before Jail, I have the 3 properties right after Go to Jail, and I have all four streets (Blvd of the Allies, Grant Street, Ohio River Blvd, and Forbes and Fifth). At first I thought I was gonna crush everyone, and to a certain degree I still believe that, but at the same time, my sister's friend has the 3 properties right after jail, my brother has the 3 properties just before Fort Pitt Tunnel (free parking) and the 3 properties just before Go to Jail. So technically, they have the good properties, not gonna lie. The odds are a little bit stacked against me. And yes I made a bad trade. My sister's friend had 1 yellow and I had the other 2, and I had the 2 oranges and she had the other 1. (The oranges are just before Jail and the yellows are right after Jail). She wanted my 2 yellows for her 1 orange and I kept refusing. I tried to trade her my 2 oranges for her 1 yellow to which she refused. So in order for me to start building and making money, I decided I'd do the trade she wanted and I'll try to use the streets and my other 2 monopolie to bankrupt her. We haven't finish yet. My sister is almost bankrupt. And my brother is going average. He's not doing bad, he's got 2 monopolies, but with him, when he doesn't have a whole lot of cash to show off, he gets pissy and frustrated because he can't say for sure that he's winning. Anyone want to offer any advice as to how I can win with the situation I'm in?

You know that classic monocle that the monopoly guy has It never existed!

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I wiped out all players by owning dark blue set with hotels today. I ended up taking 2 players sets after they added houses because they couldn't afford to pay me and then I owned all except for 2 sets. I negotiated well and because of capital attained through early investments, I was able to add houses providing me with a strong and steady stream of income which was slowly reinvested into properties. I also made sure I bought one property of each colour and gradually negotiated my way to having 3 sets (1 was brown, 1 light blue and 1 set being dark blue). I had leverage and sold the idea of short term and long term gains to other players. One example of this is saying I don't have enough capital to invest into my dark blue set so it's of no real danger right now, whereas, I can offer 300 for your dark blue card so I have a set and you have more cash to invest in the set you already have. It buys time for you, you have 3 properties within a set which is better odds than my 2 spaces and you can add houses right now while everyone else are still bargaining. This atleast is somewhat balanced especially considering your set has only slightly less earning potential and increased odds of landing to offer safe passage around the board. It gets so tactical haha

This explains why I won yesterday I owned the red propertys and all the railwaystations

Orange and Light Blue are your only focus. Pick up Utilities and the two railroads on the left. Everything else should be traded, including full sets. Let the other players waste their money. Use the Auction to drain others money or scoop up properties for cheap. Also in-direct trading is key to not letting people on to what your doing. (I also like to mortgage my properties and try and trade them that way, timing is key)

I buy only the dark blue and pink ones and max them. The opponent will eventually step on pink, or even better blue and gain more than the money you spent.

My strategy is to get the Light blues and Yellows. The reason is because the lights blues are cheap to get hotels so they help get you a bunch of profit already. I pick the yellows over reds and greens because yellows are the same price as reds for hotels and houses but get more money. Greens are expensive and not much money for houses and hotels. I also try getting railroads sometimes and I usually win with that. Hope it helps

The staying in Jail and income tax tactics are very smart.

I have a younger sister, who had 2/3 of the red property colour group, some extra crap that doesn’t matter, and 1/2 the dark blues. I had boardwalk, and offered $1,500 for park place. This was a very risky move, but I built a hotel and every one ine my family landed on it. My sister, who loves to obtain the cheapest property sets, almost went bankrupt, but I cut the price and she offered me the ghetto with the hotels on it. With my corner advantage I happily tied for 1st with my dad

Resume : The oranges are the best

I didn't know they had a London version...I used to live here and now I am weepy...I have to get it.

Board Game Sanctuary, you're playing the UK standard edition board but you show us the 'advance to nearest station' and 'advance to nearest utility' chance cards. So, the Chance and Community Chest cards in UK edition are now identical with the US edition?

thanks for help

I won a game starting the first ten turns with only one utility by obtaining the light blues and browns and building 4 houses on each.

nice! i will beat my friends now :) thx ur my heroooo xD

When it comes to tip number eleven, the monopoly rules of my set state that a player must CHOOSE to pay the tax or to pay two-hundred dollars BEFORE calculating a tax. Per the rule book of the Monopoly Classic Edition, “You may estimate your penalty at $200 in cash and pay the bank, or you may pay 10% of your total worth to the bank. Your total worth is all your cash on hand, the printed values of mortgages and un-mortgaged properties and the cost of all the buildings you own. You must decide which option you will take before you add up your total worth.” Perhaps the rules vary, and I could be wrong when it comes down to how people generally play. However, it’s interesting to see how much monopoly sets vary, especially those between the UK and the USA.

I’ve been wondering about this, so let’s say that I’m doing really well in monopoly and I see my friend struggling with barley any money. Could I give them money in exchange for one of their properties? Because then that way they might accept the offer since they are low on cash. But I dont know if that’s cheating or not because you are not supposed to give players money

Love dos rail roads