La forma correcta de jugar a Monopoly

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0:04OK, so when do you play Monopoly?

0:07I have not played Monopoly since I was, like, ten.

0:11So…

0:12Now I play it when I’m at my parents’ house, if there’s a big family gathering.

0:19I don’t ever play Monopoly.

0:21Basically, you played Monopoly when you were a kid or when you were stuck inside.

0:24So, I talked to somebody who played Monopoly in a ballroom in the Venetian hotel in Macau.

0:31I’m Brian Valentine.

0:32I was the United States representative to the Monopoly World Championships in 2015,

0:37where I finished third amongst the 28 competitors.

0:42He taught me all the right ways to play Monopoly — and even make the game a little shorter.

0:46All the rules, odds, and strategies that can actually help you win.

0:55This is a Monopoly board from...

0:56..Target...but I took it with me to Macau and asked all the players to sign it for me.

1:03Just as a keepsake.

1:08I’m almost getting into sports cliches talking about Monopoly, but it was very humbling to

1:13have made it that far against players who are the best in their country and who are

1:19fantastic people.

1:20And this Monopoly genius, he knows heat maps and housing arbitrage and strategy — but

1:24he just wants you to follow the rules.

1:27OK, what happens on free parking?

1:29Do you, like, collect money from people?

1:32There’s no money under free parking, I guess that’s the biggest.

1:36You don’t put money under free parking, people see as a chance to equalize the game

1:40that’s stacked against them.

1:41If you keep putting money in the game, it stops the progress.

1:44People don’t play the game by the rules.

1:46If they did, it wouldn’t take quite so long.

1:49Do you auction stuff off?

1:50No.

1:51I remember reading it on the back of the card, but I don’t remember — I remember that

1:55always feeling a little over my head in terms of play.

1:58If you land on it and don’t want it, it’s got to go up for auction on the spot.

2:03Somebody can buy it.

2:04You can start the bidding at a dollar.

2:05I’ve seen it happen, and I’ve seen someone take Boardwalk for 20 bucks.

2:09Once you have the rules in order, you’ve gotta go with the strategy.

2:14What’s the best spot in Monopoly?

2:16Oh, I’m sure it’s like Boardwalk.

2:18It’s funny because that’s the glamour, that’s the trademark of Monopoly, it’s

2:22Boardwalk - you gotta get it.

2:23The object of the game is to take everyone’s money and be the only person left in the game.

2:27While Boardwalk certainly offers the prospect of that — $2000 when you get a hotel on

2:31it — think about what it costs to get there.

2:33You’ve got to buy each of the two properties.

2:38Then it’s 200 dollars, per house per property, until you get to that level.

2:43So that’s another thousand dollars on each one to then get $2000 back.

2:49And there are only two of them, right?

2:51Most of the other Monopolies have three spaces that you can hit and then draw rent.

2:54If you are building up Boardwalk and Park Place before anybody else has built Monopolies

2:58up against you, hell yeah, go for it.

3:02But if you’re in a situation where other folks have Monopolies on that hot side of

3:06the board, and you’re waiting to throw the haymaker, if you will, on Boardwalk and Park Place,

3:10 that’s a loser more than it’s a winner.

3:15You can go on any website and learn the basic parlor trick that the oranges are the best Monopoly to have.

3:27Are you gonna now show a chart of the Monopoly board with a heat map?

3:33I’m sad to say that I will.

3:36I knew that existed.

3:39The reason that that is so is because jail is one of the most often landed on spaces in the game.

3:49The fact that the common role is 7, then 7 from jail — while not an actual property,

3:54it’s Community Chest — 6 and 8, the next most likely numbers, are St. James and Tennessee Avenue.

4:01So you know that the oranges are likely to get hit on.

4:05And also, by extension, the section between jail and go to jail that side’s the side

4:11you want to be building on.

4:12It’s feast or famine on the other side of the board.

4:14So there’s a couple more strategies that are on the practical, not so mathy end.

4:19If you get to jail early, go ahead pay up, get out of there.

4:23You can also use your houses as weapons to control the game.

4:26You have 32 houses in the game.

4:28You’ve got to build houses before you can build hotels.

4:32The houses have to be physically present to be bought, which is why, in a lot of circles

4:38you’ll hear people say about creating a housing shortage.

4:41You want to get to the four house level so you can pull the trigger and get hotels if

4:45you need to, or you can sit on the four houses and keep other people from having them.

4:50OK, so final question.

4:51So when I say what is the right way to play Monopoly, how do you respond?

5:03The right way to play Monopoly is just...don’t play it.

5:07Don’t steal from the bank.

5:11And that goes out to my cousins when we played when we were ten.

5:16I would say, is it just like, to win?

5:19How to win?

5:24With honor.

5:25It’s almost, sometimes, you feel like you have this Renaissance era sense of honor and

5:34dignity.

5:35Not that we’re going around slapping each other with gloves having duels or anything

5:37like that.

5:39But...that’s the thing that keeps coming to me is honor.

5:42Playing Monopoly allows you to get to know people in a way that formal introductions

5:50or being coworkers, or whatever, doesn’t quite show.

5:55Because in an hour and half, two hour game, you’re gonna see how people handle adversity,

6:01you’re gonna see how people handle success, you’re gonna see, bundled in this short

6:08format, that allows you to see who a person is.

6:22Ahhh...shhh….it’s Monopoly, we’re talking about Monopoly.

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