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Nah, just say you're here for the memes 🤷‍♂️

@@whatswhat2022 Funny that they say this!, Maybe the game of Life would an interesting one ^^

me: I really need to go to bed its 1 AM my brain: no, we really need to know how to beat someone in a game we only play once a year.

Monopolizing my time is just so unpredictable, I don't expect to be watching a Game of Life tutorial one day lol

Me either but I’m happy I’m here😂

Taking into account size variance, wind speed, seismic factors, topple probability. Sure yeah that could be interesting

I second this. Please do Jenga.

Yeah

@@whatswhat2022 don’t forget to include the finger size classes of all possible opponents and how to play with/against them.

@@whatswhat2022and all the chances that everyone else picks every other block

that's my tactic - monopoly of houses = win.

Agreed. I learned this the hard way when playing with some friends. One of them was nearly bankrupt and had no sets of properties. They traded 2 different colored properties to someone who could get 2 monopolies for some cash and the last brown. They placed hotels two turns later and they almost won because people were losing their go money. The crack shack gambit can be crazy frustrating lol

Unless you get that damn community chest card that’s 40$ each house

@@-5FPS obviously that can easily be a game-changer. But you have to play Monopoly of a game of odds and do what makes sense to put the odds in your favor. Sure, some games are won or lost based on pure luck.

​@econoverse3209 I'm stealing "crack shack gambit".

im doing the exact same

@@yalcan967same here

Bro get a life and sleep

5:00 am😂

Same

Yes I’d like that as well!

I've only played Catan a few times, I guess I'd better start learning some strategy haha

That’s what I was thinking

@@whatswhat2022You might want to check out Dylighted (KZfaq), he is a pro player who seems very interested in optimal strategy.

Catan is a game of luck there is no skill to Catan.

DESTROY THEM!

My family has all decided that they will no longer allow me to play Monopoly…. 😢 this is was a great way for me to get an edge but has seemingly backfired! I guess I will be settling for beating down strangers on the app!

@@MrSTPFAN1bro what

Yeah that could be really cool

read the original english rulebook on the internet, it has some interesting tips like mortgaging your properties that are behind your developed properties to open up the way for a mr monopoly roll to slide the victim to your color sets

its like monopoly, but game is so much slower, and defense tactic is even more useful

@@tugalic3979 i actually find it to play faster with the speed dice, almost half the properties are bought on the first lap, and you get more money so it's not rare to see the light blues or browns get developed on the first lap

I love mega monopoly best one out there

Catan

Catan

Backgammon!

Risk

Catan!

Glad you enjoyed it!

I do the same except I do light blue too.

Thanks! I packed in as much as I could!

​@@whatswhat2022i can't believe brown slander justice for browns

Those two games are the leaders so far. I've only played Catan a few times so I'd need to start forming some strategies for it. Then Risk is interesting, one of my favorite games but I don't actually know the breakdowns for how the probabilities would work or which continents work best. Both would probably make great videos!

Risk isn't hard to figure out. Some of it is luck, but mostly knowing when to defend and when to blitz someone and knock them out, taking their cards. Australia and south/north America is king. Then it's just keeping a finger in the other continents so they can't draw cards. The Game Night risk on Switch is actually a very good rendition. Far better than the Monopoly one imo. Though the AI does make some questionable moves at times.

Draw units, not cards.

@@InternetLad Yeah I love the game night risk, also totally underrated but how fast you blaze through dice rolls is great. The monopoly game isn't as good, I've played better video game versions

Thanks I appreciate it!

Risk would be a fun one.

Both sound like very good videos! Thanks for liking the video!

I love risk but never figured out how to master it, might need to get into the trenches on it

@@whatswhat2022 no problem man! If you keep making good content I'll keep coming back, liking, and showing others!

Well the plan is certainly to keep making good content!

Glad you liked it! I crammed as much as I could while trying to make it still entertaining

I agree with this, I love clue

It's a great idea! I've been in the works on a Clue script for several months, the strategy is excellent but it's very difficult to make sense in a video, but once I can make the script make sense it's one I want to do!

One of my favorites!

Clue is my favorite board game, but my whole family won't play it with me anymore because I think too much and win 9 times out of 10😂 It is really fun to me figuring out which guesses are legitimate, and which aren't to give you an upper hand on top of all your own guesses

One tactic is to write down every guess that happens and who shows a card. That way you can sometimes figure out peoples cards and gain advantage

Glad you watched it!

Board games are great

Yeah... these videos work under the assumption that the opponent doesn't understand the game. In real games people will try to prevent others from gaining monopolies and gaining one becomes highly dependant on luck. Luck in general plays a big role in this game, it isn't chess or anything where the most skilled player always wins, so it's very questionable to claim this is "how to always win at Monopoly" Also, in his example of a "strategic play" (where he gave the dog the orange card), he had something like 1500 worth of property, while his opponents had around 500 and 1000 in property and cash. His play was only possible because he already had a massive advantage. Surely anyone can win when he has more stuff than his opponents combined, I don't understand the point

Anyone that sells someone a monopoly and leaves them with enough cash to buy houses or without getting a monopoly of some sort themselves are idiots, me and my friends usually only do it after we stall mate and we get bored 😂 Also in games and not the physical board game it’s pure random and you’re at the fate of RnG and makes a luck based game even more luck based and some the rules like auctioning every property you don’t buy makes it even harder as you’re giving other players the possibility to get easy monopoly’s themselves potentially

Ooooh interesting idea!

Someone has already done it, forgot who but if you put it in youtune search you can find jt

winning at guess who is easy though- make the most broad guesses. that way about half of the board gets knocked down every time

5D Chess Move: intentionally lose games so that people will play more Monopoly with you, and thereby get more wins overall

There is a lot here i dont think normal people realize. you should basically never buy hotels unless you cannot control the amount of houses there. preventing others from buying houses is a HUGE advantage accomplished by just building the 4 and not allowing others to build. also, you are so right about the rules. The game does not take that long as is commonly thought. It only takes so long when house rules are added (especially extra money for landing on free parking)

Yea i agree with this

Study and know the official rules like the back of your hand, and only agree to play Monopoly with people who will play by these rules. Otherwise, fights start. Because it’s inevitable someone will have some random stupid house rule that they pull out of their ass when it’s advantageous to them. Also, non-official rules lead to the game taking way too long.

In my place, there are a bunch of house rules that I dont even know how the official looks like. Could you suggest me some refs to the official rules? I really want to play by the book. Thanks in advance, I appreciate it a lot if you help me.

I like this idea, but every time I've tried it I just ended up spreading myself too thin because it's expensive to buy one of everything.

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I crammed in as much as I could into the video, I wish I knew how to animate faster!

yeah there could really be some good ones!

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

The house supply strategy is good, you just usually can force the game to end first. If houses become short and the game is even, then yeah using up the house supply can work to your favor for sure

@@chellnz this. i always do this and win everytime

THIS. It's nowhere in your videos, but what you want and NEED to win is to MONOPOLIZE the housing supply! That's why I will always go for Orange (because, duh, they're the best properties to win with), Pink (again, because it's in the most-landed strip after Jail and not so expensive to buy houses on), Light Blue _AND_ Brown, because they can be had for cheap and the cost to soak up the remaining houses is very low. Eight houses on the brown properties will set you back just $400, the cost of just two houses on the Dark Blues. If you allow someone to build to hotels, and then you soak up ALL the houses (aka, don't go to hotels, just four houses on the monopolies), when they have to sell any of the houses, they'll be down to no homes at all, making it very difficult for your opponents to get serious cash out of you or your opponents. Make sure you have space and money to buy houses the instant your opponents have to sell them to make rent. Absolutely ensure you buy up the houses as quickly as you can and there's no way you'll lose...Unless of course you get hit for the Property Improvement cards where you have to pay per house on your properties. If that gets picked up by another player who has no houses, thank your stars you didn't get it.

You actually need to think before you do this for a reason. There’s 1 Community Chest and Chance Card that makes you pay for your buildings.

@@CalebN. Yeah, I've been hit with these cards while holding onto the 32 houses, and yes, it hurts. The hope is that you've got enough cash in the bank from everyone else landing on the improved properties to be able to handle the financial hit of those cards.

The most challenging part of all

Yeah risk has been asked for a lot and it's definitely one of my personal favorites. Yeah the orange card idea is super clever and I've done it a few times. Only reason I didn't add it is it would've been insane to try and convey in a decent way, but it's definitely a really good way to take down someone who might have gotten stronger than you. As long as they hit them and not you!

​​@@whatswhat2022 I'm late but in considering tactics on *Risk*, there are things that I would like to point out mentioned or to be questioned in the future strategy guide in debunking these pointers. ~ 1. Everyone knows the "turtle Australia" and "SA stronghold" techniques, so I wonder in a long game if these areas can be pigeon hold since everyone is racing for these territories? ~ 2. (mythbusting) Best to control Asia territory if only have the iron grip in Europe territory. In personal experience and game set, Europe has 5 troups bonus and its in the better part (by logistics) of the board if bother to get Asia (despite being placed in the dangerous part of the board by looks). ~3. NA is actually also a good territory to hold first other than SA (4 troups bonus and 3 fronts, sweet deal!). Africa territory is vulnerable in a short game but a good stronghold in pair with SA territory in a long game. I'm not too sure if they're clarify well but hopefully answered. And also I've only played in random on online but rarely on docking territories traditionally.

Thanks!

To win splendor , never buy the first row of options, the cheap ones. Only cards that give VP. The buying rate of the first row, takes 2-3 cards before getting a decent deal on a point card. Skip the middle man

Thanks!!

Depends. There's 32 total houses, and 3 on each property would be 66 houses, so you can't fill them all. However there are 12 hotels, so in theory you could put the 12 hotels onto 4 of the 3 property color sets, and then fill each of the remaining 10 spots with 3 houses

@@whatswhat2022 So 10 times 3. The best ones would be orange, the light blues (if you get them quick), the dark blues and maybe a few pink ones (2 on each for all 3).

I was about to say the same thing, and this is a very important strategy to learn.

When I play usually we just use coins or other small things as house or hotel supplements, never thought about playing with a limit

@@snowy5419 - cording to the official rules. Once the game is out of houses and hotels, you can’t buy anymore. So it is best strategy to try to put four houses on your property so other people can’t buy more once the 32 house limit is reached.

@@holdmanchristmas guess I havent read all the rules guess its be nice to switch it up next time, just always thought Hasbro was being cheap and not giveing all the houses I guess

I love this strategy of buying all houses and blocking others. I buy browns and light blues, so I can buy houses cheaply.

After chess of course

Hell yes

Hard to argue with chess

Love it

Eehhh, not really for me Even playing it fast, it won't take less than 50 minutes to a match to end, and not to mention its "american trash" core element: the players who are eliminated have to wait whatever time it takes till the game is over. Basically, forcing this person into "idle mode", where they must wait for the entire board to be finish so they can move into doing something else This kinda game like Monopoly, War and several others always sounds fun on paper, but at the end everyone is tired of playing board games for the entire day

I haven't played Catan much but I'm sure it would be a really good game to do

And then, if you reach a point that you need those houses on a different property, just upgrade the Browns to Hotels and, simultaneously, buy back the returned houses so no one else can snatch them up. It tacks the cost of a Brown Hotel onto the cost of whatever houses you're buying, but it makes it a "safe" purchase.

That's a really good point, and I had it on my initial script. But when the script went over 12 minutes I cut it since when you are playing without house rules and hit most of these points it's hard to actually build that many houses. My philosophy is to finish the game before that much gets developed and run the game out of contention by the money supply, plus more people want to play when the game takes like an hour and a half and not like 5 hours. But it's definitely a good angle to look at

House rules can be fun but the game gets so chaotic and drug out, the basic rules definitely make the game work better

Every time I play with basic rules, the game always ends up in a stalemate, because no one is willing to do any trades before all the properties have been bought and after they will not let you get a monopoly no matter what, so trading becomes useless.

​@@vilkku792 you have to all agree that everyone will get a monopoly and trade properties and/or cash to get I done

@@PropiaPersona XD I would not let anyone have a monopoly if I had a monopoly already, and there were no other threat on the board. Picture this, I had all the railroads, and there were no other monopolies up. I would slowly bleed the competition out. Same goes for the browns, or any other monopoly. Do not give an inch when ahead is a very viable gameplan, unless you can get even further ahead with lesser risks than what you gain. 🙂 I have seen a lot of YT videos in a competative monopoly setting.(swiftor) and I often see players taking high risk trades when they are ahead, and are holding leverage, giving it away. And thus creating unnecessary risks on the board for themselves.

The dog is a great piece! And little Bentley makes a good visual for the dog!

Thanks!

Haha I might have to start studying up

I've always loved risk but never mastered it, maybe for the sake of a future video I should do that

Just be excellent

Housing shortage simply means that one did not get enough playing models. That is an exploit, not a real feature.

​​@@kingol4801No, it's part of the game not an exploit. There's a reason why it's called MONOPOLY

(AKA Chutes and Ladders)

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