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[Rocko]

I was playing on the old two disk version of monopoly deluxe and won! I beat the computer with $9776! The clencher, the computer had only 6 properties unmortgaged, and owed me $4000 for landing on Park Place with a hotel. The game was only two hours, but I actually won! (The computer was set on easy, but still.......)

[Susuwatari]

For most computer versions (including game consoles) it helps if you buy, buy, and buy. Sometimes offering doublt the property value to a computer player, it will sell you the property. As long as you own at least one of each olor, no one can hold monopoly!

I also found it's easier to concentrate on the red and orange properties or red and yellow properties. Green tended to be a bit expensive to build houses and hotels. As long as you have one large continuous monopolies, player would be paying a lot just to get through that area. Don't bother monopolizing the blue or purple, there's only 2 and odds of landing there are diminished quite a bit.

If your computer oppoment has at least one monopoly, you can try to corner the housing market. Remember, there's a limit of 32 houses in a game. If you build houses and don't build hotels, availabkle houses would be less and the computer players won't be able to build or even build hotels. If they have hotel and they have to sell, they'd have to sell all the hotel and all the houses.

[Nukey Shay]

You can acutally use the computer's method of spending loosely against it. If it lands on anything it can afford, it WILL purchase them no matter if it puts it's cash on hand down to nil...forcing it to mortgage and unmortgage as it lands on your properties.

Favorite properties: The corner around free parking. Hotels are relatively inexpensive (giving you a jump on those struggling to develop the lower edge properties), and 3 cards will send an opponent there (as well as hitting those who just get out of jail).

[Rocko]

I like the two blues, the oranges and the yellows. that way I have something covered on each side.

[Scooterb23]

I go for the roach motel strategy. I do everything in my power to get Baltic and Mediterranean ASAP. And then I put hotels up there even faster.

You try winning Monopoly when you don't get your Go money

Of course, the last time I played, I got my mojo going, and one of my friends did the "buy everything...even if it involves martgaging something" strategy, and came back from about $8 to win.

[Nukey Shay]

The problem is that they aren't landed on much. I'd say that most of the time, people land on either Income Tax or Luxury Tax just as often...or moreso. And no cards go there (although two send the player to Go, and one sends the player to Boardwalk...rolling very low numbers on the next turn is also improbable).
Properties following Jail...there are plenty of opportunities there. Something that could have been corrected with the inclusion of a 4-sided die (to choose the corner to begin counting from following jail time). Or even better, an 8-sided die that includes RailRoads.