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Monopoly is mostly luck
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Date: October 25th, 2025 1:50 PM Author: Mischievous Ticket Booth once you get the fundamentals there's not much value-add to "skill." just make sure you get lucky to get enough color monopolies from the start and don't get fucked going to jail on the way to "Go" too many times to have money to buy houses before other players. that's it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374091) |
Date: October 25th, 2025 1:53 PM Author: magical garrison this is why you need a rule change: whenever you land on a property it goes up for auction among all the players except for the person who lands on it, who has a right of first refusal. this increases the skill level required of the game by a lot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374100) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 1:55 PM Author: Mischievous Ticket Booth how is this different from the existing rules except that the person who lands on it can participate in the auction if he doesn't buy outright (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374110) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 1:59 PM Author: magical garrison In the normal rules as I’ve always played it if you land on a property you can buy it for a set amount, it only goes to auction if you reject purchasing it. Lots of luck, the lander usually buy it
If it goes to auction right away it becomes much more about money management |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:02 PM Author: Mischievous Ticket Booth then what do you mean by "right of first refusal" if not the right to buy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374123) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:02 PM Author: magical garrison person A lands on the a property that has a face cost of $100. persons B, C and D bid on the property and bid it up to $300. person A then has the ability to take the property for $300 or let it go to the highest bidder.
under normal rules person A could just buy the property for $100, which involves too much luck. |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:04 PM Author: Big-titted Cruel-hearted Resort only furking jews wld enjoy playing like that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374126) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:04 PM Author: magical garrison enjoy your luck of the dice rolls then (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374129) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:08 PM Author: adventurous codepig chad ?????
That doesn't seem meaningfully different from Person A being able to participate in the auction (which is what the rules allow) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:10 PM Author: magical garrison The way I've always played the normal rules is that the player who lands on the property can buy it outright without an auction; it only goes up for auction if he doesn't buy it.
If it goes right up for auction among all players right off the bat then what's the benefit of landing on anything? |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:23 PM Author: adventurous codepig chad it sounds like you're just playing by the correct original rules
The person who lands on it can choose to buy it. If they choose not to buy it, a public auction is immediately started where all players bid on the property |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:24 PM Author: magical garrison yes, and those original rules involve, per OP, too much luck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374170) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:13 PM Author: adventurous codepig chad If you read the optimal strategy online it's pretty easy to win
- Buy Railroads, Orange, Light Blue - Avoid Green/Yellow/DarkBlue/Utilities
Pretty easy to win by giving someone a set in exchange for their Orange, giving another player a set in exchange for their Orange, and then mortgaging your remaining shit so you can immediately put three houses on Orange |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:15 PM Author: stirring copper genital piercing office Do you actually play this game irl? Most people hate it. I've had several people have tantrums and flip the board over. That's basically what the game is "about." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374145) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:18 PM Author: learning disabled brunch if you roll a four at the beginning of the game and youre playing against three players youre basically done. then you have to sit there for three hours. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374153) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:19 PM Author: adventurous codepig chad yeah it's Not Fun IRL. I found an online site (richup.io) and wasted a bunch of time earlier this year, and it was also Not Fun
you get that dopamine rush for about 30 seconds when someone lands on your upgraded set and at that point you've already won and there's 15+ minutes of pointless drawdown
so many better board games out there |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:28 PM Author: Trip Twisted Useless Brakes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374180) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 7:03 PM Author: Exhilarant azure box office striped hyena you nailed it itt, totally agreed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374718) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:23 PM Author: Bateful therapy it’s a stylized expression of the financial anxieties of losers and indigents and of their hatred of their own inabilities and shortcomings, which they disguise in hatred towards the supposed capriciousness and oppression of the free world (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374165) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 7:03 PM Author: laughsome really tough guy Slam dunk poast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374719) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:16 PM Author: learning disabled brunch it took you to adulthood to figure this out? you just buy everything you land on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374148) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:17 PM Author: Trip Twisted Useless Brakes There are various mistakes that poor players can be induced into making. Color monopolies on the more expensive part of the board are vastly overrated by most players. It's difficult to fund them without houses in other parts of the board. You can often trade boardwalk or the green properties away to bad players for monopolies in the less expensive regions that are much easier to build up. Depending on the player, you can also put them up for auction when you land on them and then bid them up so they overpay for properties they won't be able to build up. There are other things you can do that many people won't - mortgage properties you can't practically build on or trade to another player to drain their cash and immediately fund building. Certain things like utilities are overrated as well as should be traded away or put up for auction. Most people do not manage trades and auctions well at all (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374149) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:20 PM Author: adventurous codepig chad TITCR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374158) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:20 PM Author: stirring copper genital piercing office Why would they? No one can do the math unless they have a spreadsheet that they make when they're not even playing the game, or cheat by reading about it online. That or actually being autistic. Or an Engineer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374162) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:28 PM Author: adventurous codepig chad the entire metastrategy is based on Clique Exploitation. Scumbags will tend towards a slumlord strategy with Mediterranean/Baltic, while Preps will overindex on Boardwalk
it takes a True Engineer to corner the railroads to fund their expansion on Orange |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:31 PM Author: Trip Twisted Useless Brakes I don’t think you need to do the math to see how useless the green and dark blue properties are for most people in the beginning of the game. I have seen so many games where someone spends a lot of resources getting a house or two on those properties only to get crushed by a full built up monopoly on the light blues. It should be an obvious thing after a few games. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374192) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 8:13 PM Author: stirring copper genital piercing office How many games have you played total? I’ve probably played like 6 in my whole life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374822) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:19 PM Author: Dull swashbuckling corner That was literally the point of the game. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374157) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 8:13 PM Author: dashing nudist pervert (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374823) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:20 PM Author: Godawful bistre hominid This Monopoly WORLD FUCKING CHAMPION is a lawyer.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/sep/02/experience-i-am-the-monopoly-world-champion |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 2:28 PM Author: Lascivious Offensive State Newt You need good negotiation skills to win (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5789722&forum_id=2Ã#49374183) |