by Jade Twits

Created on: January 29, 2009   Last Updated: August 22, 2011

Monopoly is a game that requires both luck and skill, your next move largely dependent on the roll of a die. However, I can give you a few pointers that might just help you win Monopoly, provided Lady Luck is also willing to lend a helping hand.

The absolute key to Monopoly success is to build a large collection of properties that your opponents will stay and pay at as they roll around the board as well as stopping your opponents from having too much property at the same time, to save your own pennies. To learn how to do this, as well as some finer details, read on.

1) Buy as much property as you can!

In the early rounds of the game you should buy as much property as you can, buy everything you land on! It is true that you don't really make a lot of money from people landing on your property until you own a whole street. However don't let this stop you buying property. Even though you may have no other properties of a particular colour, someone else might. This opens the prospect of trade, and as one property may be more valuable to someone else then to you, you can sell it at an inflated price. For example, you can buy a property for $200 but then sell it later for an inflated price of $1000, therefore giving you a profit of $800 to spend on houses and/or more property.

2) Keep a money buffer

Okay, I lied. I said buy as much property as you can. However, what I mean is buy as much property as you can, within reason. At the start of the game put some money aside that you promise to yourself that you won't spend until you have a whole street. Anywhere from $200-500 is fine. This way when you do have a street you can actually afford to buy houses straight away. This means you make money straight away, getting ahead of everyone else. Aim to build three houses as quick as you can, as there is quite a big jump in profit in between having two or three houses on your block. For example, rent on a particular property jumps from $300 to $750 with the addition of just one house.

3) Learn when to stay in jail and when you get your bum out of there!

When you are starting the game, jail is a bad thing. Get on your best behaviour, volunteer in the jail's food court', just do whatever you can to get out of there! Normally this means forking over $50 to get out of jail, although you can give rolling doubles' a shot if your particularly lucky. You should get out of there because while your bumming around in jail others are cruising around the board snapping up lucrative

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