The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly (2010)
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The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly (2010)
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#2Neat.
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.
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#3Anyone want to roughly calculate the odds of this actually happening?
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#4The Youtube comment are saying that this requires players to make completely irrational moves and I agree
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#5Anyone want to roughly calculate the odds of this actually happening?
0 in practice, who decides to buy nothing?
And even if player one declines to buy, player two can buy it via the auction.
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#6The Youtube comment are saying that this requires players to make completely irrational moves and I agree
I also agree but it’s still _possible_ in theory
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#7Anyone want to roughly calculate the odds of this actually happening?
The specific sequence of rolls has 5 doubles (which can only occur one way) and 4 unequal pairs (which can occur two ways). Each double has a 1/36 chance of happening while the unequal pairs have a 1/18 chance. So that's 1/36^5 * 1/18^4 = 1/6,347,497,291,776 or about 1.5 times ten to the minus thirteen.
It's interesting that the last four digits of the denominator of the probability of the shortest game of Monopoly are 1776. I'm sure that has some kind of cosmic significance.
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#8Neat. 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.
That's when you sneeze or find some other reason to bump the table hard enough to lose the places of all of the pieces. "Ooops, I guess we'll have to pick this game up later"
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#9The Youtube comment are saying that this requires players to make completely irrational moves and I agree
The comments of the article are full of people coming up with ways to play entirely rationally and still end the game in 8 moves, they're worth reading.
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#10Anyone want to roughly calculate the odds of this actually happening?
0 in practice, who decides to buy nothing? And even if player one declines to buy, player two can buy it via the auction.
Sure for Player 1, but if Player 2 reduces their cash by buying properties that still results in a loss. The premise is creating so much rent on Boardwalk that player 2 can’t afford it.