December 2, 2007

Monopoly

My favorite board game to play with my friends is Monopoly. In case you never played, the goal is to bankrupt your opponents. The rules are in every Monopoly box. Though honestly, my friends and I don't play exactly by the rules as for we have a $500 Free Parking Jackpot, and we let ourselves collect $400 when we land directly on Go (just passing we get the normal $200). A few good strategies I like to use are; always build up to hotel level on the jail properties which consist of the pink and orange groups, as well as the cheap properties which consist of the purple and light blue property groups. Additionally, never build on the dark blue properties they cost a lot of money to build on and they never pay off. Honestly, I don't really buy those dark blue properties in the first place unless I can get them at auction for a considerably cheaper price. Finally, the red, yellow, and green properties in most cases should get 3 houses, unless you don't own a jail monopoly or a cheap monopoly then you want a hotel on those properties. Regarding Jail, always roll for doubles to get out of jail unless you obviously have the Get Out of Jail free card or if you could complete a jail monopoly if you paid the $50. So, what are you waiting for? Enjoy some good old Monopoly!

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