All right. So, today I thought I'd do

something a little bit different. I have

a few projects in the works, but they're

not ready to to launch quite yet. So,

today I thought I'd just sit down and

answer some of the um most popular

questions that I get on the Monopoly

videos or or just ones that are are

really good. The criteria that I used

for picking out the questions was just

simply ones that either get asked a lot

or ones that I just thought were

exceptionally good. So, uh, I picked the

the first 10 that I came across. So, if

if you have a question that wasn't in

there, feel free to write it in the

comments. And if you guys like this sort

of thing, then I'll I'll look at making

making some more of these. Okay. So, the

first question I have here is, why don't

you like the yellows? They're still on

the jail side of the board. Um, okay.

That's a good question. So, first of

all, um, the go side and the jail side

of the board is just kind of a concept

that I made up where you split the

monopoly board in half. Here's my, uh,

best John Madden here. And just

basically say that the properties that

are over here are definitely going to

get landed on a lot more than the

properties that are over on this side.

And this is just kind of a common thing

in terms of Monopoly where

ultimately

uh if you do a heat map on the board,

you're going to find that especially the

reds and the yellows are going to get or

sorry, the reds and the oranges are

going to be landed on uh by far the

most. And so that causes you to be able

to get a lot more rents and a lot more a

lot higher likelihood to be landed on,

especially since jail is is such a

common spot to to land on on the board.

So the thing with the yellows though is

that once you start getting this far

around, the yellows are a bit expensive

to develop. And in terms of being able

to develop them, if you're stuck in

between the yellows and the reds in

terms of spending your money, the reds

are going to get landed on a lot more,

especially because Illinois Avenue has a

a card that can send someone straight to

it. So, you're going to end up having a

lot more rolls where somebody's maybe

coming out of jail, they get one or two

rolls and they're in the reds and then

they end up hopping over the the yellows

themselves. So, um in terms of the

yellows, I don't mind them, but the

issue that's going to come up is that a

lot of times they're very expensive to

develop. And if you can develop

something like red for about the same

price, uh you're going to get a lot more

rents out of it. So, so that's the deal

with that. Next question I have here is

what if everybody uses this strategy,

then who wins? And that that is kind of

a funny one. So, that's something where

I actually took the time um a few months

ago to make a video called How to Beat

How to Win Monopoly Every Time. And the

whole purpose of that, it's all based

around the oranges and being able to uh

defeat the oranges because ultimately

the oranges are going to be the most

powerful property on the board. But if

you're if somebody else is using that

knowledge to their advantage, then how

do you end up taking down the oranges?

There's a lot of strength in being able

to hold a property in which no one else

can build a monopoly on that property.

So, being able to pick out some of the

the strongest monopolies to get such as

red,

red, orange, light blue, um even like a

railroad can can really change the

course of a game. like having one or two

railroads is not very dangerous. But

when you have all four railroads, uh

they can really pack a punch and

everybody's forced to um potentially

land on a railroad every single turn if

if you have all four railroads. So being

able to counter some of those is is

pretty big. But yeah, that's basically

the the biggest thing is, you know, how

can everybody win every time? Well, a

lot of that is going to be answered in

some of these these other questions that

are upcoming. All right, so we've got

what about auctioning? What should you

do? Overpric a little, jump in on on

your own auction? What should you do?

Uh, that's a really, really good

question. And so, the point of auctions

is obviously to kind of make the game go

a lot faster. The the thing with them is

that if you don't play with auctions, it

takes forever to actually land on every

uh spot, especially, you know, people

who want it or don't want it or choose

not to buy or whatever. Uh it makes sure

that when people land on something,

they're both more likely to buy it and

somebody on the board is going to get

it. So the the real break even point on

this is the amount of mortgage. And so

just for example, let's take Ventner

Avenue for a second. And if you look at

Ventner Avenue, Ventner Avenue, there's

it's not really a bad property. Uh but

it's not really a good property either.

It's just sort of it's just sort of out

there. And as I was saying earlier, I

really don't think the yellows are the

best route to go. um just because

they're they're a lot more expensive

than red or sorry they're the same

amount as red but they um do not

actually get landed on enough to to

really offset that. So if we look at

Ventner Avenue here, the cost is 260. So

let's say you or anybody puts it up for

auction and you start creeping up and

you're at 10 20 30 whatever. Um, if

you're so if you buy Ventner Avenue for

130, right?

That means that if you buy it for 130

and then mortgage it, it's it's a wash.

It's $0.

So, the thing is if you land on Ventner

and the rent here is $22. Well, that

means that if you can assume that

we'll write a 22 here. Um, if you assume

that Veterary Avenue is going to be

landed on one time during the course of

the entire game, well, now if you pay

152

152 for it, now you're looking at

breaking even with that. And when it

comes to the properties, having

properties in any regard is better than

not having the property. So, we're kind

of looking at these break even points.

and let's say it's early in the game. Uh

you really don't want Veterary Avenue.

It's not part of your plan. But if you

mortgage it, it's 130. If you assume,

hey, if I keep this thing unmortgaged

for at least, you know, the next, you

know, five, six goounds. Let's say we

assume it's going to be landed on twice,

then you add another 22 to that and now

you're looking at, you know, 174. So,

even if we're looking at, okay, how many

times are people going to land on it,

what is my break even point and

everything else, you can start looking

at where maybe if it's early in the game

and nobody's going for it at like 180

190, uh, just having a property for a

net 20 or $30 is great. I mean, that's

less than, you know, Mediterranean

Avenue. like nothing is that cheap on

the board. And that's kind of the way

you need to to look at the properties is

how do you go about doing that and

having this break even point. A little

bit of it too is okay, you need money to

actually build properties on on the good

um or or build houses on the the good

properties. So, you don't want to spend

too much money on all this stuff. But if

you end up getting say all three yellows

for oh I don't know um like like 600

bucks or something which would be super

cheap then all of a sudden some of those

ratios aren't quite so bad. And if you

can get a couple couple houses on each

then all you really need is somebody to

land on it once or twice and then you're

making money. So you know if you're

making money that's really all that you

you need to be doing. So, um you know,

you don't really need to to necessarily

um worry about all of the little

nitpicky things in the beginning. You

just want to make sure that you're able

to cover your costs of developing a

property.

Also, a little trick is let's say you're

on Vener.

You don't want to spend 260 for Vener.

You can put it up for auction and see if

somehow you can get it for less. Or

let's say you do want Ventner, but you

don't really think anybody else is going

to go for it. You can put it up for

auction and kind of hope that, hey,

maybe I get it for say 220 or 230 or

something along those lines. Another way

you can also set up auctions is uh for

example, let's say Boardwalk. Uh

Boardwalk's a very popular spot on the

board and you know $400 is I mean it's

the most expensive property on the

board. Well, let's say that you know

that people might be fighting over it.

What you can do is put it up for auction

and then hope that people are going to

spend say $450 or $500 or whatever

because once you get people kind of

pigeon holed with money where they they

can't quite afford to to really do much

or they can't outpunch you in terms of

of rent prices. like even if they have

orange, but they can't really get more

than like one or two houses on on the

properties, then they're really in a

deficit where, you know, they're going

to be incurring more debts than actually

making. So, if you can get people to end

up spending a lot on some of the the

auctions, uh it can be a really good

setup for you to to try and try and get

people to to waste their money on on

auctions, but then also uh save yourself

money if you can get stuff for for lower

than sticker price.

Has anyone ever finished a game of

Monopoly? Uh no. No. every every game

that has ever been played is is still

going on. But uh that being said, I I am

a big proponent of following the rules

of of the game and not having too many

house rules like free parking or um

things of that nature. Cuz if you add a

lot of house rules, that's a lot of why

games take a long time. Uh Monopoly is a

little bit unique where it's an

elimination game. So there's a lot of

other games where every player goes

until the end. And so if you're like,

you know, doing a game night or whatever

and somebody gets eliminated, they're

just kind of sitting there, right? So

there's a lot of um a lot of stretching

the rules in Monopoly compared to other

board games where people will decide, oh

well, okay, you would be bankrupt, but

I'll give you a free pass around the

board. or oh, I don't want you to be out

of money, so we'll we'll strike a deal,

you know, whatever. And my thoughts are

just don't even worry about that. I

mean, if you you know, you guys are

actually paying attention and and

playing the game and and everything like

that. I mean, the game really shouldn't

go more than like an hour. So,

ultimately, uh maybe maybe slightly more

than an hour, hour and 15 minutes or

something, but ultimately, yeah, it

shouldn't take that long. So, my biggest

thing is, hey, if if your Monopoly games

take forever, then I would recommend

strongly that you uh consider making

sure that there's no house rules.

Wouldn't it be better to buy the

property sets that are further down the

row? You get properties that charge more

rent while still maintaining the same

house cost. Uh, that's a great question.

That is a fantastic question and, uh, it

kind of piggybacks off of what I was

saying with yellow before. So, if we

look at um most of the the properties

here, the the cost per house, I mean, we

go uh 50 on the first row, 100 on the

next, 150 on top, and then 200. What's

going on here? 200 um on the the last

row. So ultimately uh if you look at the

price of the rents and and house rent,

they go up the further along you go. The

bigger issue I think and it's it's more

to do with what is the likelihood of

something being landed on. So for

example um let's go to blue. Well blue

has the boardwalk card that can

definitely be landed on. Also, it's easy

to place um higher house counts on here

because you only have to pay for for two

properties to get developed. So, it's

easier to, you know, get three, four

houses a hotel on these than it is on

the greens just because there's an extra

property there. Um, and the same thing

kind of goes over here where Baltic and

Mediterranean are very cheap to to fully

develop, but ultimately you got a little

more net here to actually uh catch

people. Um, orange is just the best

because of its proximity to jail since

it's it's able to be rolled on pretty

easily. Um, yeah, pink's right next to

jail, but rolling a four or less is is

pretty unlikely. And so unless if you're

coming from go,

um it's not exactly that likely to get

landed on. So ultimately that does end

up playing a part, but the one where it

kind of breaks that rule is is yellow

and red. And red is just so much more

likely to be landed on that yes, the

cost to build up your houses on red is

going to be the same as as building up

on yellow. Um save for, you know, a few

bucks in and the difference in their

their um purchase price. But ultimately,

the bigger thing that we're worried

about here is the likelihood of being

landed on. So, uh yeah, that is uh an

important factor, but ultimately the the

bigger thing at stake is what's what are

the properties that are going to be

landed on after you build houses.

Okay, next question. When in jail is it

better to pay or try to roll doubles?

Um, that's a really, really good

question. And this has to do with more

of a larger game point where uh early

game you don't want to be in jail. Late

game you do want to be in jail. And

there's a few reasons for this, but

ultimately uh if you want to be out of

jail, you're paying. Like $50 is not a

lot of money in Monopoly. So what you

want to do is if you want to be out of

jail, you just want to get the hell out

of jail. You do not want to be staying

in jail. And the reason that you would

want to be out of jail is if you're

early in the game and you're still

hunting for properties. So the the thing

with hunting properties is like

especially if you're trying to get like

an orange early on, you could roll and

land right on orange. Also, um yeah, two

of the oranges are are evens, but then

also you could roll an odd with a nine

and land on New York Avenue. So, if

you're still trying to get the oranges,

you want to get out as quick as

possible. I mean, when you're in the

early game, you want to be getting as

many properties as possible. Uh, you

have no idea where you're going to land.

So, the properties that you end up with

is purely luck. Like, there is nothing

that is not luck based when it comes to

actually getting the properties. But

once you have properties, then it turns

into strategy in terms of what you're

going to do with the properties that

you've gotten. So early in the game, you

want to maximize getting on as many

properties as possible. You want to go

around the board as much as you can. Uh,

you know, passing go can be big because

it allows you more money that you can

buy more properties with. So you want to

definitely make sure that that that's a

big part of your game. Now, once you

reach that turning point and you start

building houses and you start getting a

little more foundation under you and

especially if other people are starting

to get to that point, too, well, you

want to stay in jail as long as you can.

So, ultimately, if there's a lot of

places that you can land on where you're

paying rent, well, you want to avoid

going around the board as much as

possible. Like let's say if you have uh

the red Monopoly set and somebody else

has the the orange. Well, you want to

stay in jail as long as you can because

you want to give yourself as many times

to have people land on your stuff while

you don't have to take as many chances

to land on their stuff. So ultimately

that's what's going to happen there. Um

do you ever want to try and roll doubles

to save money? Uh the answer is no. No.

There's there's just no reason that that

would ever be the case. Um there's just

no there's just no reason why like $50

is not a lot of money in Monopoly. So

what you definitely want to do is you're

you're going to it's going to be black

or white. Like you're either going to

want to get out of jail right now or

you're going to want to stay in there as

long as you can. This question here, you

missed the most important thing. Is that

for all players to agree first on the

rules of the game before you start

playing? Uh yeah, that's a that's a

fantastic uh question right here. Um

also that's almost more of a statement

than a question, but uh that's super

important and that is that everybody's

on the same page in terms of the uh

rules that you're playing with. Because

if you're not playing on the same level

of rules, it it just it's going to

become bungled as as the game goes on.

You're gonna have people that don't

agree on, oh, I thought we were putting

money in free parking, or oh, I thought

we weren't. Oh, auctions, what what's

that? And, you know, if you're not on

the same page with the basics of rules,

I mean, you're going to have people who

are like, oh, selling a house, you get

your full money back. Like, no, you

don't. That's the whole point is, you

know, you lose half your money when you

sell a house. So, that's a huge uh huge

change in the strategy. that's being

played with is, you know, people need to

be playing by the correct set of rules.

And so, yeah, that is something to make

sure of if if you're not sure is, hey,

are we playing by the the correct set of

rules? Cuz that's that's going to change

the way that you're playing the the

game. All right, this question here, but

what if we use the old fun rules? No

auctions, money in the middle goes to

free parking. Uh that's kind of the same

as as the last one. So ultimately

they're house rules. You can call them

old fun rules, but basically that's

that's just another way of saying house

rules. So you can play that way and you

know it's important that everybody knows

how you're playing. But ultimately it

slows down the game. It it makes it a

lot slower. Uh it might make a lot of

sense if you're playing with like a a

kid who's like seven or eight and just

kind of trying to figure out their their

way with things. But ultimately uh if

you want to play the game and not take

forever and really use some some real

strategy, then yeah, you you want to

make sure that you're using auctions and

not doing free parking.

All right, this one here. What happens

when you go last, roll a four on your

first turn, and then basically never hit

a property? I've been having a lot of

games where I only have two to three

properties and everyone else has 5 to

8,000 in cash doesn't mean much when I'm

the objectively weakest player. Uh,

that's a really good question here and

that is super unlucky. Um, but it does

happen and there are definitely people

who say, you know, well, with my luck,

I'm going to hit income tax right out of

the gate. And, you know, hey, you

visualized it, so of course you did. But

ultimately, uh, the big thing with this

is

you want to let the game play out, but

if your game plays out that way, and

again, you want to be uh playing with

auctions. So with auctions that also

gives you a huge chance to always be in

the game. So it is important that you're

playing with auctions cuz that is a big

piece of making sure that the properties

kind of get doled out and in a a fair

manner. But ultimately uh a big thing

that you will have to do if you're this

unlucky is you have to start pushing for

trades. And ultimately there's

properties on the board where you you

have to be willing to spend a little bit

of money to have the corresponding

power. So like for example, so we can

talk about the oranges hitting way above

their weight in terms of of strength. So

let's just take Virginia Avenue for a

second here. and it it's 160 for

Virginia, but ultimately if you don't

have properties whatsoever,

um you might want to be looking at

offering more for that 200, 250,

whatever. Uh and the reason is is

because you want to make sure that you

have property like you could have all

the money in the world, but you have to

be making money or else you'll lose. So,

the amount of money that you get from

the board in Monopoly does not make up

for how much you're going to be losing

to other players. Uh the the way you get

around that is you're going to have to

offer a little more than the sticker

price. You can't really be too cheap if

your odds or uh sorry, not your odds,

your luck is just not been going going

well. So, what you want to do is you

want to start being able to put together

a monopoly somewhere. You need to get a

monopoly. And ultimately, if you only

have a few few properties, you could

even go for something like green. So,

let's just say this is not your game at

all.

You're just getting destroyed. But

you're able to scrap together each green

and you can get a few houses on each

one. really with green and and I'm not

saying this is the strategy you should

be going for in a game. This is like a

backup to the backup to the backup

strategy here. But if you look at green

and say, you know what, actually I can

get like two houses on each of these

things, if you're able to do that, those

pack a lot of punch. And it's easy for

somebody who does not have much of cash

reserves or tries to build too many

houses or whatever uh to land on this a

few times and suddenly they're

dangerous. Also, it is important to to

keep in mind that not only is you know,

yeah, landing on say like two houses on

on Pacific, you're looking at, you know,

$390. Well, let's say you get a few

rents and you get three houses on one of

these and now it's packing $900. That

can be a very tough uh property set to

to come back from if other people do not

have their monopolies properly developed

enough. Now, if they do, you know,

you're talking lots of houses on say

like orange or red or something like

that, that's harder to get around. But

if you've started the game and just just

a turtle on his back kind of started the

game and you can pull together a

monopoly like that, you're able to cut

away at at the other teams that maybe

aren't ready to to go yet. Um, and my

golden rule is a monopoly anywhere on

the board is better than not a monopoly.

I know that sounds kind of ridiculous at

first, but what I mean is I would rather

have the worst monopoly on the board and

be able to build houses on it than have

the best monopoly on the board and have

no ability to build houses or do

anything with it, right? Like having the

orange monopoly set with no houses on it

is worthless. It's a completely

worthless monopoly in that case. Same

with red, same with everything. So

ultimately uh what you want to do is you

want to look at what did you get with

those those uh handful of properties

that you have and then how can you work

with those? How can you make make

something happen there? Um that's that's

the route that you want to take. All

right. And then the last question I have

here, are you saying that even if you

land on green, yellow, or brown

properties that are unowned, you

shouldn't even bother buying them? Um,

that kind of goes along with what I'm

saying here. What we're looking at with

this is when it comes to properties that

are are unowned, it has a mix to do with

who owns what, what do you own, and how

much money you have. So again, you can

win with any property set on the board.

There's nothing stopping you from being

able to pull it off with with any of the

property sets. uh the speed of

development really plays a massive key

in in Monopoly. So even getting

something like the the yellow or the

green, like if you're able to get these

in this corner and you have houses on

here while people are still trying to

far out the other side of the board and

build their stuff, uh you're going to

win. Now, with Baltic and Mediterranean,

um I know some people like these and and

they're kind of fun and cheap and and

whatever, but they really don't ever get

landed on. Like Mediterranean, for

instance,

it's impossible to land on Mediterranean

Avenue without passing over the go to

jail spot. Like, it's not possible to

land on this this spot any other way.

So, what that means is that regardless

of where people are at, they've got to

go around the entire board to land

there. So, these properties, they're

super cheap, but they really don't get

landed on that much, and they really

don't pack that much of a punch. I mean,

I mean, having a hotel on Baltic Avenue

pays the same as as having two houses on

Pennsylvania Avenue. So ultimately, just

from from all the perspectives, like

it's cool to have the Browns. They're

super cheap. They're very easy to to

develop, but they really don't get

landed on that much, and they don't

really pack enough of a punch to truly

take down someone. I mean, for the same,

you know, $50 a house, I would go for

the light blues because there's a bigger

net. And since you're starting at go, or

at least, you know, go is a spot that

people land on um or get sent to, it's

much more likely for somebody to be on

go and roll like a six or an eight or a

nine and then land on your stuff here.

And I would even put these just straight

up to hotel. Um they're probably the

only properties on the board that I

would say uh benefit from having a hotel

over three houses at least in the the

middle of the game. So, uh, when it

comes to to the yellows and the greens,

my only thoughts with these is if it's

very difficult for you to get all of the

properties on the board, like

everybody's struggling to to get a

monopoly, having these is great. Having

a piece of them is great. Um, you know,

if you can get them for barely over

their mortgage cost, like, you know,

Pennsylvania Avenue, it's 320. I mean,

if you can, you know, so half of that's

160. I mean, if you can get the thing

for like 200 bucks, that's that's a

great purchase right there. Um, at

worst, you're out 40 bucks, right? So,

being able to do that is fantastic. But

ultimately, if if you're already to the

point where you're getting some of the

the better monopolies, like you're going

to be orange, you're going to be red,

you know, whatever, what's the point in

spending that, you know, let's say that

$200, you know, if you're paying $200

for Pennsylvania Avenue instead of

getting your third house on St. James

and New York Avenue, well, what are you

doing, right? you want to be able to uh

purchase those things. You know, getting

the extra houses is is huge, especially

on the right monopolies. But yeah, I

mean, there's there's definitely cases

where getting these monopolies or or

making the purchase here makes some

sense. Um but it's it's a case by case.

I would say most of the time, no. Most

of the time, no. Like unless if they're

going to be super cheap, you don't want

to you don't want to worry about them.

All right. So, those are some of the

questions that I I found there. Uh

there's lots more questions. I I just

picked the first 10 that that stuck out

to me. So if you have more questions,

write them in the comments. And if you

guys like this this form of video, then

um yeah, I I'm open to making some some

more of these and and answering other

things. Um but otherwise, yeah, thanks

for uh thanks for watching.