What Property Do You Go For Immediately When You Play Monopoly?

Are you a card carrying pinko commie socialist liberal who turns into a rabid frothing-at-the-mouth conservative when you play Monopoly?

These are the properties, which one do you zoom in on first...



RED: Kentucky Avenue, Indiana Avenue, Illinois Avenue

BLUE: Park Place, Boardwalk

GREEN: Pacific Avenue, North Carolina Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue

YELLOW: Atlantic Avenue, Ventnor Avenue, Marvin Gardens

LIGHT BLUE: Oriental Avenue, Vermont Avenue, Connecticut Avenue

PURPLE: States Avenue, St Charles Place, Virginia Avenue

ORANGE: St James Place, Tennessee Avenue, New York Avenue

DARK PURPLE: Mediterranean Avenue, Baltic Avenue

The Railroads: Reading, Pennsylvania, B & O, Short Line

Utilities: Electric Company, Water Works

I always laugh at people who waste their precious $$$ early on the utilities...

such as light blue and dark purple. everyone always lands on them. :D
Sting

just kidding ;-)

It's been my experience that people always seem to land there.

They're sooooo "republican." I go for the projects.

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i overextend myself, mortage myself out the ying-yang, and get clobbered

Always favor Orange over Pink and Red over Yellow (same price for houses/hotels, but orange/red have higher paybacks when your opponents hit them). However, it is best to spend liberally on property at all times, any monopoly is good, and preventing your opponent from getting them is 1/2 the game, if you can own at least one of each, you prevent your opponent from getting monopolies), never go with utilities.

get Boardwalk and Park Place, trade other properties for them, offer lots of cash. Then put two hotels on each and wait. Chances are, each of the other players will have to pay you a big wad of cash.

Sometimes I go for the Marvin Gardens block instead.

Bought Park Place and Boardwalk, put as many houses as possible on each (ended up with 1 hotel each). I won with $4949 in assets, the last player got a community chest card that said "go to Boardwalk". :)

are usually baltic or connecticut. But I always set my sights on Green to make shitloads of dough-ALWAYS. Green is the most profitable, and since it sports one more property than Park Place/ Boardwalk, easier to trap a coplayer into landing on it....


Remember "Anti-Monopoly," the board game from the early eighties? The anti-capatalist "monopoly." It was great.

While the capitalists are playing games I'm getting serious and happy.

grab all 4 and you own the game! Just like Jay Gould and Vanderbilt!

is the most landed on property.

are the best to get a hold of. The cost vs. profit is highest for them.

is that by then many people going around the board are sent to jail or sent somewhere else (by Chance or whatever) - so they don't get there as often.

Not that you COULDn't win with them....

1. Illinois Avenue
2. B & O Railroad
3. Tennessee Avenue
4. New York Avenue
5. Reading Railroad
6. St. James Place
7. Water Works
8. Pennsylvania Railroad
9. Kentucky Avenue
10. Electric Company

according to this website... http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/monopoly/monopoly.shtml#Long_term

I always try to pick them up. If you luck into the blues, it's over.
I always buy Railroads, too.

Cool... the personal philosophy of Monopoly. It's probably very telling.

Lime goodness!

I move heaven and earth to get the oranges, build up as much as possible. You get everyone coming out of jail; I've bankrupted a few people this way.

Second best is the reds...for the same reason!
Trekkerlass

and if you can get most of that side of the board, you're in excellent shape!

My husband--'he who knows everything' :eyes: --actually clued me in about the oranges. I used to mortgage everything to get Boardwalk and Park Place, and promptly lose! He'd have the oranges and usually the reds for good measure and hit up the 'jailbirds'.
Trekkerlass

Its slumlording. Cheap property, lots of turnover (everyone lands there) so you get lots of working capital. I am ruthless at Monopoly. I'm not very competitive at anything else, but I won't be beat at Monopoly. I think its good I settled into working for not-for-profits.

Mediterranean Avenue and Baltic Avenue are the ones to go for because there is so little money in play and they are a cheap buy in, indeed, big bang for the buck on your investment. Heck, five hundred buck and your set with a little cash cow. As the game progresses, and more money is involved, it is good idea to set you sights a little higher (uptown). Kentucky Avenue, Indiana Avenue, and Illinois Avenue are great during the middle of the game, and finally, Pacific Avenue, North Carolina Avenue, and Pennsylvania Avenue are fanstatic for the closer (the kill?). Never play Monopoly with my older brother!

I'm also a fan of the Yellow and Red squares. You own Red, Yellow, and Green, Blue will just come with time.

I am the monopoly slum lord

They are cheap and you can get hotels on them fast and bleed the other players dry.

buy just about everything you land on (no utilities), even if you have to mortgage other stuff. Where you get a monoploy is not as important as making sure that your monopolies are surperior to the opponents, in terms of dollar value, buying up properties will prevent others from getting monopolies.

You can really put the hurt on someone with green. Orange is very good too. I once saw a computer study of monopoly which said that those two have the highest returns.

You rule when you own the top shit.

Ive discovered that blue-purple make a fun combo, even worse when you have railroads. They cost about the same as 2 regular monopolies. Use the $$ made off RR and purple to build up your Blue.

In that situation you have, RR, chance, blue, lux tax, blue, Go, purple, ComChest, purple, incometax, RR

You go for all the properties you can, sacrificing everything you have to acquire them. Then the rewards pay off in the end, as you triumph and win the game over less daring competitors. In monopoly, as in life, the spoils go to the ones who have the vision and who can persuade others.

they would have plenty of Republican politicians you could pay "campaign contributions" to in exchange for legislation that would promote your profits over the interests and well-being of the citizens.

Françoise

with the most widders and orphans I can evict. Mwa ha ha ha ha.

Françoise

If you can get oranges, and purples and the railroads you're indestructible.

As Dane Cook says: "Look at me!!! I'm sitting on Baltic with crack!! Hand over my four bucks, Grandma!!!"

:-):-):-)

My family won't play with me anymore, though, because my latent cut-throat capitalism comes out in the game.

My family won't play with me anymore, though, because my latent cut-throat capitalism comes out in the game.

I wonder why monopoly doesn't have some Rat & Roach figurines to put on your properties like they do houses and hotels.

People go to jail a lot, and when they get out of jail, they will most likely land in that area. Actually, that whole end, the purple-orange-red-yellow corner is the best in the game. BY FAR more valuable than the green-dark blue end-purple-cyan corner. The medium rent outweighs the low probability high rent potential of that end.

PLUS, houses are soooo much cheaper to build there!

I'd say they give the biggest bang-for-your-buck on the board. If you have all 4, you can practically count on a few extra hundred dollars every few turns. It's money in the bank.

Other than that, the ORANGE monopoly is my pick. People always seem to land on it normally, it's building costs are not sky-high, and it's in a great location to nail those who are getting out of jail. I would trade away the Green or even the Dark Blue to have the Orange.

The light blues are cheap to buy and build on.

Utilities are for suckers.

I like to play slumlord!