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La forma correcta de jugar a Monopoly
La forma correcta de jugar a Monopoly
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OK, so when do you play Monopoly?
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I have not played Monopoly since I was, like, ten.
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So…
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Now I play it when I’m at my parents’ house, if there’s a big family gathering.
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I don’t ever play Monopoly.
0:21
Basically, you played Monopoly when you were a kid or when you were stuck inside.
0:24
So, I talked to somebody who played Monopoly in a ballroom in the Venetian hotel in Macau.
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I’m Brian Valentine.
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I was the United States representative to the Monopoly World Championships in 2015,
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where I finished third amongst the 28 competitors.
0:42
He taught me all the right ways to play Monopoly — and even make the game a little shorter.
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All the rules, odds, and strategies that can actually help you win.
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This 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.
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Just as a keepsake.
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I’m almost getting into sports cliches talking about Monopoly, but it was very humbling to
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have made it that far against players who are the best in their country and who are
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fantastic people.
1:20
And this Monopoly genius, he knows heat maps and housing arbitrage and strategy — but
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he just wants you to follow the rules.
1:27
OK, what happens on free parking?
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Do you, like, collect money from people?
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There’s no money under free parking, I guess that’s the biggest.
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You don’t put money under free parking, people see as a chance to equalize the game
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that’s stacked against them.
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If you keep putting money in the game, it stops the progress.
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People don’t play the game by the rules.
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If they did, it wouldn’t take quite so long.
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Do you auction stuff off?
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No.
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I remember reading it on the back of the card, but I don’t remember — I remember that
1:55
always feeling a little over my head in terms of play.
1:58
If you land on it and don’t want it, it’s got to go up for auction on the spot.
2:03
Somebody can buy it.
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You can start the bidding at a dollar.
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I’ve seen it happen, and I’ve seen someone take Boardwalk for 20 bucks.
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Once you have the rules in order, you’ve gotta go with the strategy.
2:14
What’s the best spot in Monopoly?
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Oh, I’m sure it’s like Boardwalk.
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It’s funny because that’s the glamour, that’s the trademark of Monopoly, it’s
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Boardwalk - you gotta get it.
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The object of the game is to take everyone’s money and be the only person left in the game.
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While Boardwalk certainly offers the prospect of that — $2000 when you get a hotel on
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it — think about what it costs to get there.
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You’ve got to buy each of the two properties.
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Then it’s 200 dollars, per house per property, until you get to that level.
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So that’s another thousand dollars on each one to then get $2000 back.
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And there are only two of them, right?
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Most of the other Monopolies have three spaces that you can hit and then draw rent.
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If you are building up Boardwalk and Park Place before anybody else has built Monopolies
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up against you, hell yeah, go for it.
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But if you’re in a situation where other folks have Monopolies on that hot side of
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the board, and you’re waiting to throw the haymaker, if you will, on Boardwalk and Park Place,
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that’s a loser more than it’s a winner.
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You can go on any website and learn the basic parlor trick that the oranges are the best Monopoly to have.
3:27
Are you gonna now show a chart of the Monopoly board with a heat map?
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I’m sad to say that I will.
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I knew that existed.
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The reason that that is so is because jail is one of the most often landed on spaces in the game.
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The fact that the common role is 7, then 7 from jail — while not an actual property,
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it’s Community Chest — 6 and 8, the next most likely numbers, are St. James and Tennessee Avenue.
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So you know that the oranges are likely to get hit on.
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And also, by extension, the section between jail and go to jail that side’s the side
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you want to be building on.
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It’s feast or famine on the other side of the board.
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So there’s a couple more strategies that are on the practical, not so mathy end.
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If you get to jail early, go ahead pay up, get out of there.
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You can also use your houses as weapons to control the game.
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You have 32 houses in the game.
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You’ve got to build houses before you can build hotels.
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The houses have to be physically present to be bought, which is why, in a lot of circles
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you’ll hear people say about creating a housing shortage.
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You want to get to the four house level so you can pull the trigger and get hotels if
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you need to, or you can sit on the four houses and keep other people from having them.
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OK, so final question.
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So when I say what is the right way to play Monopoly, how do you respond?
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The right way to play Monopoly is just...don’t play it.
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Don’t steal from the bank.
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And that goes out to my cousins when we played when we were ten.
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I would say, is it just like, to win?
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How to win?
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With honor.
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It’s almost, sometimes, you feel like you have this Renaissance era sense of honor and
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dignity.
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Not that we’re going around slapping each other with gloves having duels or anything
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like that.
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But...that’s the thing that keeps coming to me is honor.
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Playing Monopoly allows you to get to know people in a way that formal introductions
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or being coworkers, or whatever, doesn’t quite show.
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Because in an hour and half, two hour game, you’re gonna see how people handle adversity,
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you’re gonna see how people handle success, you’re gonna see, bundled in this short
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format, that allows you to see who a person is.
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Ahhh...shhh….it’s Monopoly, we’re talking about Monopoly.
