WIN MORE at Monopoly! A Guide to Color Sets

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1. great useful video!!

2. I beat the A.I. tonight because of this video

3. A long time ago I used to play monopoly every Christmas

4. And my mom got a monopoly from Korea so it’s in Korean

5. But they’re gone now

6. Would you trade the orange set for the light blue set? Let's suppose you have one orange property and two light blues. And an opponent has two oranges and one light blue. Would you accept the deal only if you have the capacity for immediately developing the light blue set?

7. What is the best decision in this situation?
   Let's imagine an opponent has a developed set. You also have a developed set. And you also have another complete set but still undeveloped ( You were planning to develope that set as well soon because you have the necessary capital for that ). You are 6 to 10 squares away from your opponent's developed set.
   In that scenario, is it better to save your capital in case you land in your opponent's developed set? Or should you take the risk of investing in your another set?

8. Do you think either the brown set or the dark blue set would be more useful (in terms of a bigger odds that your opponents land on any of those sets ) in case you are in a 6-player game and specially if you are the first player in getting to complete a set?

9. What do you think about "defensive trades"? For example if you still cannot get to complete a monopoly ( And neither any of your opponents ), you might prevent other players from completing one. Let's imagine there is an opponent that we'll call "Player A". And another one "Player B". Player "A" has one orange property. And player "B" has two oranges. You get to convince player "A" to give you his orange.
   If you make several "defensive trades", could that make the game get stuck?

   One more thing:
   I think in certain cases you should even overpay for a property either to complete a set or to prevent a player from completing it. Let's suppose player "A" has one dark blue. And player "B" lands on the dark blue the other player needs to complete that set. He decides to put that property into auction because either he's not interested or he is too low on cash. Would you try to win that auction? Or does it depend on the case or situation?

   Or let's imagine you are the player who lands on the dark blue that player "A" needs but you are low on cash. Would you spend all or almost all what you have just for avoiding that player to complete that set ( you don't want to give him the chance of getting that property by auction )

10. I always thought it was Reading Railroad (pronounced "Redding" like the actual rail company in PA)

11. Wowwwww thank you!!!!

12. Here is a strategy that worked for me against the AI:

    My first line of defense is this: two railroads, one utility, and one street in every neighborhood. This does not get me much money, but it blocks my opponents from gaining power and the more property I have, the more I can mortgage when I need money fast. Once I have completed this line of defense, I begin my line of offense with the brown properties because they are easier to buy from the AI opponents than those expensive dark blue properties. If an AI opponent refuses to trade property for money, I throw in some extra money for the property and they are more likely to give in if they own cheap property on the south side of the board. They are also more likely to give in if they know that the property that I am seeking does not complete a set. If somehow, I have completed a monopoly, I will rush my first house onto my completed set because once you have a house developed, they cannot trade for any street inside the vicinity of your house. The areas where I will rush more houses are located on the south side and the west side of the board because they are cheaper to build over there. The guy in this video emphasizes on developing to three houses, but I do not settle for that. What I will settle for is four houses, instead of a hotel and that hotel moment will wait until I have more houses on other property. This will cause a house shortage and the others will not be able to do anything about that. Note that if you have houses on brown, light blue, and magenta, you can buy out all the houses in stock really fast. For the rest of the board, I can initially settle for one house to block my opponents from trading money for my property. At this rate, I can afford to upgrade to a hotel and build more houses inside the immediate, slightly more expensive neighborhood, likely on the jail side of the board, where I have often delivered the final blow to the other players, since it's super rare for me to have green properties very well developed like I can easily do with some of the other colors. The green neighborhood takes an astronomically high amount of resources for fast development and by the time I acquire that much expendable wealth, I have already won the game in most cases. Green is not a color group that I would target except to block my opponents from developing.

13. This was super awesome and interesting!!! Thank you so much for putting your thoughts together!!! Mmm and complete with a yummy spreadsheet at the end 😀

14. 19:58 Statistics is important. Otherwise one might conclude that always playing the lottery is great because of the return investment… But if you never win, it is just a loss.

15. In monopoly or at least on my board the chance card to a railroad warp if it’s owned by another person you pay double money and I have banked 400 from then a lot of times 💵

16. Good video but i think youll need to make a follow up with more situational strategies. For example you did not mention how once the Advance to Xx property card gets pulled, the value of that set goes way down. So if those cards pull early you may want to collect and turn those around as trade material. So like this but 20-30 examples. Thx

17. Hi i watched the video and liked the detailed explanations. Would you be interested to look at the rules of a variation of monopoly with slightly different rules and analyze how to increase the chances of winning at it? I haven't seen anyone do a detailed guide about it so might as well try asking haha

18. This is an awesome video. Thanks.

19. Like and follow, algorithm bring me more

20. 1.orange
    2.red
    3.yellow
    4.pink
    5.light blue
    6.dark blue
    7.green
    8.brown

21. This felt like a college lecture where you actually care about what the professor is teaching. This guide is EXTREMELY interesting! 🙂

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