How many of you out there like Monopoly?

[Avalon]

How many of you out there also agree that this game often defies statistical logic. I just got done playing a game where I had $2000, hotels on the yellows, hotels on the greens, and hotels on medit + baltic, and my opponent had everything mortaged, $1000, and the oranges with no houses.

An hour later, he won. I love this game.

 

[KLin]

lol you suck at monopoly .

 

[wfbberzerker]

i've found almost all of it is the luck of the dice. barring any retarded trades, the outcome of the game is almost always determined in the first 2-3 times around the board.

 

[bdude]

I've never finished a game of monopoly.

 

[Allio]

Originally posted by: Avalon
I just got done playing a game where I had $2000, hotels on the yellows, hotels on the greens, and hotels on medit + baltic, and my opponent had everything mortaged, $1000, and the oranges with no houses.

An hour later, he won.

He's going to be telling this story to his grandkids.

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: KLin
lol you suck at monopoly .

I know

I'm actually pretty good at the game, but how far does any "skill" take you in a 95% luck based game? Not too far. In the beginning, all I had were medit + baltic, and he held at least one piece of every other property, but I was able to offer him trades that benefitted me more than him at the time. That's what got me as far as I managed to get. Then after 6 rounds of passing all three sets of my monopolies (and I had the railroads, he never hit those once either), he finally had enough money to lay down houses on orange, and somehow I hit them every single turn. Then, when he had enough money to build up the purples, I started hitting the purples AND the oranges every single turn, and did not miss either of them once the rest of the game.

 

[DAGTA]

My favorite board game!

Probabilities in the Game Monopoly

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: DAGTA
My favorite board game!

Probabilities in the Game Monopoly

Damn!

 

[latino666]

I just try to get the orange and reds. People seem to land on them the most. Also the hotels and houses for them are cheap but you get a crap load back. I don't even try to get BW or PP. If I have one I just trade it or sell it.

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: latino666
I just try to get the orange and reds. People seem to land on them the most. Also the hotels and houses for them are cheap but you get a crap load back. I don't even try to get BW or PP. If I have one I just trade it or sell it.

Yeah, I usually trade BW away for something cheaper that I can dump hotels on, while my opponent only has enough to put two houses on.

 

[Eli]

Used to play it all the time with friends in junior high.

Our games would last for days... when we were done, we would count everyones money and write it down.. and then resume the next day, heh.

 

[compuwiz1]

I luv the game, but it's hard to find players who can stop figgeting, talking on their cells, etc, to really have a good, involving game anymore.

 

[Kibbo86]

If you play one-on-one, the game is about the dice, unless one or the other is a moron.

If you play with about four people, it's possible for the person in 4th place to make a good trade that drives at least one or two others out of the game.

Of course, if you play with the "Free Parking" house rule, the dice become more important (though the first dice are less important), and you can end up in an inflationary loop where there is no end to the game, unless someone gets bored.

 

[BRObedoza]

had some fun 4 player online monopoly games at games.com a few years ago

 

[lowfatbaconboy]

Originally posted by: bdude
I've never finished a game of monopoly.

nor have i
its so friken boring playing games that take absolutely no skill....even as a kid they were boring

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

My gf gets irritated with me because no matter what I seem to win every time. I don't get it either.

I don't remember playing a game of monopoly when she was one of the other players when I didn't win.

(I don't cheat either )

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: DAGTA
My favorite board game!

Probabilities in the Game Monopoly

someone really likes monopoly :laugh:

 

[Fritzo]

I like it, but only because the last time I lost a game was in 1987

As a result, nobody else in my family likes it heheh.

 

[eelw]

Still play it on my Palm. Even play two player via IR with my co-worker in the next cubicle.

 

[Slickone]

I'd like to try a game of StarWarsopoly or SixFlagsopoly.

 

[edmundoab]

monopoly is a great game,
sadly I no longer find the company and time to play it with these days

but yea, I do like it,
too long to finish off one game though

 

[StrangerGuy]

I always like to play banker.

As I can carefully "acquire" money when no one is looking.

 

[Avalon]

Like a previous poster mentioned, you can play a java applet version online at games.com, which is where I got spanked in my statistically impossible game