The essence of the game is to show how important it is to be the one making up (or interpreting) the rules. Thus everyone has their own. The best rules include "take a shot whenever you roll dice, 2 if you get doubles" and "articles of clothing are negotiable instruments of exchange".
The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly (2010)
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
0 in practice, who decides to buy nothing? And even if player one declines to buy, player two can buy it via the auction.
My sister often buys nothing. She has this weird idea that certain colors and utilities aren't worth buying. I beat her every time with my "buy literally everything" strategy.
She might not be wrong. Some properties are landed on more frequently than others, and some give better rents for their purchase price then others. Properties and sets don't all have the same game value.
You obviously have to balance that though, can't just buy nothing.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
My sister often buys nothing. She has this weird idea that certain colors and utilities aren't worth buying. I beat her every time with my "buy literally everything" strategy.
She might not be wrong. Some properties are landed on more frequently than others, and some give better rents for their purchase price then others. Properties and sets don't all have the same game value. You obviously have to balance that though, can't just buy nothing.
It's still almost always worth buying one property of each color, to prevent other players from building a group.
Re: The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly (2010)
#44TIL games of Monopoly have a formal ending
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly, even this run is using house rules, as the official rules state that you are required to own all properties of the same colour before building, and also that houses must be built evenly on each property.
this isn't true about either the blog post (buys boardwalk and park place, purchases houses evenly on this complete property group) or the comment above (no houses or hotels are involved)
You are correct, I guess my reading comprehension isn't what it used to be. I thought I saw an error and got blinded by the rush of posting a correction.
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#46I thought Monopoly only used a single six-sided die, why are they rolling two of them?
lol we find the person with the worst monopoly family rules of all time
Re: The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly (2010)
#47Neat. The longest possible game is playing with family that don’t like or don’t know the rules and like to put money on free parking.
I played that version, for real. The lawyers got all the money and now everybody in the family hates each other. It took years.
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#48Very timely. I just finished a four-day game of Monopoly this afternoon, winning by having hotels on Boardwalk, Park Place and the green properties.
For once: very apt username :) And congratulations. Not sure if I would have the patience for that.
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#49If you drop some presumptions about the players you can go even faster-- Player 1: Roll a 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 or 12. Don't purchase, so it goes to auction. In auction player 2 buys for 100% of their cash. Player 2: Rolls a 4, lands on income tax. Game over.
Well played! And this strategy is actually easy to execute. The probability for executing this strategy is: P(3)+P(5)+P(6)+P(8)+P(9)+P(11)+P(12) * P(4). Plug in the numbers from https://statweb.stanford.edu/~susan/courses/s60/split/node65... (0.0556+0.1111+0.1389+0.1389+0.1111+0.0556+0.278)*0.0833 = 0.07407036 So 7.4%.
Times the probability that player 2 decides to bid all of their cash for a single property…
Re: The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly (2010)
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
0 in practice, who decides to buy nothing? And even if player one declines to buy, player two can buy it via the auction.
My sister often buys nothing. She has this weird idea that certain colors and utilities aren't worth buying. I beat her every time with my "buy literally everything" strategy.
Maybe your sister doesn't like playing and/or wants the game to end quickly.