A guide on how to win Jenga every time would be very interesting, factoring the physics of course as well as how to pull so your opponents are most likely to make the tower fall apart
In the advanced video you should mention the house supply of 32 houses. If you manage to get both the browns and light blues, your objective would be to build four houses on each. That would leave only 12 houses left for all the other opponents combined. Unless you get someone really lucky, chances are you'll slowly bleed everyone dry with rents in the $300 to $400 range. I would never pass up buying the browns. The $60 property cost is nothing and they are very cheap to develop. They are a great cash cow, especially if you own another group.
Agreed. I learned this the hard way when playing with some friends. One of them was nearly bankrupt and had no sets of properties. They traded 2 different colored properties to someone who could get 2 monopolies for some cash and the last brown. They placed hotels two turns later and they almost won because people were losing their go money. The crack shack gambit can be crazy frustrating lol
@@-5FPS obviously that can easily be a game-changer. But you have to play Monopoly of a game of odds and do what makes sense to put the odds in your favor. Sure, some games are won or lost based on pure luck.
I just comment because of the more than 10.000 moving parts, each done by hands as well as decades worth of Monopoly knowledge made to make it the best Monopoly video possible.
Thank you, family game nights have been so much more fun now. I usually always won Monopoly anyway until my entire family started all teaming up to try to take me down early. Now, they make deals with me that they are sure are going to be my downfall and then are all taken back when I still emerge victorious! Good stuff!
My family has all decided that they will no longer allow me to play Monopoly…. 😢 this is was a great way for me to get an edge but has seemingly backfired! I guess I will be settling for beating down strangers on the app!
@@whatswhat2022I smashed my sister before watching the how to win monopoly knowing that orange was the most common properties to land on and got all 4 stations as well I also traded her greens and yellows for worse cards because she had no money from the orange
I remember playing a game with my cousins where I owned like all of orange, red, yellow, and green or something like that. I made so much money that almost all of the 500 bills were in my possession. mostly because I constantly had to swap out my 100s to keep the bank full for everyone's go money and stuff. One of them owned both blue properties with hotels, and I felt absolutely nothing when I landed on boardwalk. It was the most solid game of monopoly I ever played
I have a brown street strategy that worked most times. I rush to get both brown places, since they're pretty cheap and most other players don't want them. From then on it costs 50 to build a house and 200 to build a hotel- so 800 for two hotels right in the beginning of the game. It makes it up after two times of someone landing on it and if you manage to do it fast enough, it can win the game in record time, since other players need to pay you 400 or 450 right at the beginning. Even if not, it gives a very nice head start for the rest of the game- it's low risk high reward
Doing a guide for mega monopoly would be nice. I don't hear too many people talk about it, but it is hands down the most interesting monopoly, and my favorite. There's a lot of house rules that people make, but there's still some strategies I have found even when rules are played differently that can definitly give you the upper hand
read the original english rulebook on the internet, it has some interesting tips like mortgaging your properties that are behind your developed properties to open up the way for a mr monopoly roll to slide the victim to your color sets
@@tugalic3979 i actually find it to play faster with the speed dice, almost half the properties are bought on the first lap, and you get more money so it's not rare to see the light blues or browns get developed on the first lap
As many times as I've played Monopoly, I have never thought about how much cash the other players have . . . . Your advice now makes total sense, and now I just have to find a few people to play Monopoly with....
So glad I found your channel, excellent video. Loved the 1st and 2nd was even better. Clear and concise explanation and points. I really enjoy the style and you pack in so much information. Thank you!!!
Amazing part two! Like other people in the comments, I'd like to see a Risk and/or Catan video. I normally win at Risk, but I feel like I only win because my opponents are usually ignorant about certain strategies.
Those two games are the leaders so far. I've only played Catan a few times so I'd need to start forming some strategies for it. Then Risk is interesting, one of my favorite games but I don't actually know the breakdowns for how the probabilities would work or which continents work best. Both would probably make great videos!
Risk isn't hard to figure out. Some of it is luck, but mostly knowing when to defend and when to blitz someone and knock them out, taking their cards. Australia and south/north America is king. Then it's just keeping a finger in the other continents so they can't draw cards. The Game Night risk on Switch is actually a very good rendition. Far better than the Monopoly one imo. Though the AI does make some questionable moves at times.
@@InternetLad Yeah I love the game night risk, also totally underrated but how fast you blaze through dice rolls is great. The monopoly game isn't as good, I've played better video game versions
Thank god for this video! I've recently been searching for new ways to aggravate and alienate my friends and family and I think this is just the inspiration I was looking for
Great video! Your editting and explainations surpass many current RUclipsrs. My suggestion for the next how to win video is Guess Who! as that could give you a chance to flex your statistics skills!
That was great! Forget Monopoly, these two videos have principles that apply to a ton of games. This is a very different way of playing board games from what I typically engage in when I play. I'm going to apply these principles when I want to win - maybe with sufficient practice these can be employed with very little mental overhead, but I would likely find them exhausting the first few times and they would preclude me from freely having fun - though who cares about fun if you just want to win?!? Thanks for the great video, Bob.
Congrats on having your monopoly series your most viewed videos. You deserve it for all the hard work and effort you put into these. Keep up the great work.🎉
Quality video, as someone who gets targeted for winning the game to much and never being able to get monopoly’s I found some of your tips very useful. Only problem is I’ll become so good no one will want to play. +1 sub
I love boardgames, and I love seeing that other people love them as much as I do and understand how to play them well! Great work on the video, the editing is very well done!
These may be a little more out there than the Risk and Catan suggestions that seem to be most common, but Fury of Dracula or 7 Wonders (duel or regular) would be very interesting to see. Fantastic mini-series!
wow, after watching this mini series i'm certainly going to stay subscribed for more stuff like this, havent played monopoly since i was young and i used to think it was all based on luck
The problem with the housing thing is that when the people who you play with also know this, which they do in my case, then they never let go of a property, e.g if you want or buy an orange and you already have one then, my family will only sell it for over 500, and more like 1000 if you have 2, which means it is Extremely hard to get a set and most people only give someone a cards needed to get a set if you give the Same to them, so you never get a lead in development
Yeah... these videos work under the assumption that the opponent doesn't understand the game. In real games people will try to prevent others from gaining monopolies and gaining one becomes highly dependant on luck. Luck in general plays a big role in this game, it isn't chess or anything where the most skilled player always wins, so it's very questionable to claim this is "how to always win at Monopoly" Also, in his example of a "strategic play" (where he gave the dog the orange card), he had something like 1500 worth of property, while his opponents had around 500 and 1000 in property and cash. His play was only possible because he already had a massive advantage. Surely anyone can win when he has more stuff than his opponents combined, I don't understand the point
Anyone that sells someone a monopoly and leaves them with enough cash to buy houses or without getting a monopoly of some sort themselves are idiots, me and my friends usually only do it after we stall mate and we get bored 😂 Also in games and not the physical board game it’s pure random and you’re at the fate of RnG and makes a luck based game even more luck based and some the rules like auctioning every property you don’t buy makes it even harder as you’re giving other players the possibility to get easy monopoly’s themselves potentially
@@eirebhoy132 This is also my experience. No one is willing to make a trade that gives the other person the opportunity to develop, which leads to the game stalling. After everyone is bored because nothing is happening, everyone agrees to equal trades which leads to the game being only a matter of luck.
thank you so much for this video! Eager to see more videos like this series but for other games, such as coup, risk, clue, rummikub.. the list is so big!!
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An important tip is to buy at least one of every color. This gives you the option to trade with others. Also remember houses are limited in the game. It's an option to not build a hotel and only 4 houses, to keep the others from making money. This is especially important when you play with house rules that give more money or extend the game. With no auctions, the game takes longer, because some streets take longer to get and prevents players to get a cheap deal. With more money, players can afford high rents and the goal is stall others. With the official rules, the game is actually short, so maybe insist on playing by the book and maybe make the game more fun, because bankruptcy doesn't take so long. It makes no fun when for 2 hours one player is slowly draining your money and due to more money, it takes longer and you have the feeling of maybe turning the game into your favor.
There is a lot here i dont think normal people realize. you should basically never buy hotels unless you cannot control the amount of houses there. preventing others from buying houses is a HUGE advantage accomplished by just building the 4 and not allowing others to build. also, you are so right about the rules. The game does not take that long as is commonly thought. It only takes so long when house rules are added (especially extra money for landing on free parking)
Study and know the official rules like the back of your hand, and only agree to play Monopoly with people who will play by these rules. Otherwise, fights start. Because it’s inevitable someone will have some random stupid house rule that they pull out of their ass when it’s advantageous to them. Also, non-official rules lead to the game taking way too long.
In my place, there are a bunch of house rules that I dont even know how the official looks like. Could you suggest me some refs to the official rules? I really want to play by the book. Thanks in advance, I appreciate it a lot if you help me.
To win splendor , never buy the first row of options, the cheap ones. Only cards that give VP. The buying rate of the first row, takes 2-3 cards before getting a decent deal on a point card. Skip the middle man
One strategy you haven't mentioned is controlling the house supply. There is a set number of houses in the game and sometimes it's better to not upgrade to a hotel to prevent someone else being able to build.
The house supply strategy is good, you just usually can force the game to end first. If houses become short and the game is even, then yeah using up the house supply can work to your favor for sure
THIS. It's nowhere in your videos, but what you want and NEED to win is to MONOPOLIZE the housing supply! That's why I will always go for Orange (because, duh, they're the best properties to win with), Pink (again, because it's in the most-landed strip after Jail and not so expensive to buy houses on), Light Blue _AND_ Brown, because they can be had for cheap and the cost to soak up the remaining houses is very low. Eight houses on the brown properties will set you back just $400, the cost of just two houses on the Dark Blues. If you allow someone to build to hotels, and then you soak up ALL the houses (aka, don't go to hotels, just four houses on the monopolies), when they have to sell any of the houses, they'll be down to no homes at all, making it very difficult for your opponents to get serious cash out of you or your opponents. Make sure you have space and money to buy houses the instant your opponents have to sell them to make rent. Absolutely ensure you buy up the houses as quickly as you can and there's no way you'll lose...Unless of course you get hit for the Property Improvement cards where you have to pay per house on your properties. If that gets picked up by another player who has no houses, thank your stars you didn't get it.
@@CalebN. Yeah, I've been hit with these cards while holding onto the 32 houses, and yes, it hurts. The hope is that you've got enough cash in the bank from everyone else landing on the improved properties to be able to handle the financial hit of those cards.
I played an online game right after watching, I just got the developed house on orange as soon as I could and I was the only one without multiple monopolies, yet I still won. Amazing guide.
I'm suprised you didn't mention getting a monopoly on housing. With only 32 houses, it only takes 8 properties with 4 houses each to completely lock the game and prevent anyone from upgrading their properties. This greatly increases the value of Brown and Blue, as if you can make "bad" trades to get them, you can build lots of houses and limit the supply. This allows only one other color set to be completed. Even if you don't have those sets... building cheap houses (and ignoring hotels) is a good way to limit the supply of houses, and players will be forced to only build a few houses each.
Another strategy I didn’t see you cover is that if you have a whole set of properties, It would be in your best interest to just buy houses instead of a hotel. There’s only a limited amount of houses in the game. Once all the houses are taken by the players. There are no more houses to build on which means players don’t get the chance to raise their rent. (This strategy usually works when there’s more than 2 players in the game.)
@@snowy5419 - cording to the official rules. Once the game is out of houses and hotels, you can’t buy anymore. So it is best strategy to try to put four houses on your property so other people can’t buy more once the 32 house limit is reached.
@@holdmanchristmas guess I havent read all the rules guess its be nice to switch it up next time, just always thought Hasbro was being cheap and not giveing all the houses I guess
"Wow, this video is a game-changer! I've always struggled with Monopoly and never quite understood how to gain the upper hand. But thanks to this advanced strategy guide, I feel like I've finally cracked the code to winning every time! The tips and techniques shared here are incredibly insightful, providing a whole new level of depth to the game. The host's clear explanations and examples make it easy to grasp even for beginners like me. Now I can't wait to put these tactics into practice and dominate my next Monopoly game night. Thank you for sharing this invaluable knowledge!"
absolutely hooked on this video for some reason ... wish you did a less than 10 min. video on the official rules of Monopoly as well as maybe another in regards to how you'd design a more balanced board (property value shifts, card additions/removals, payouts, systems, etc.) for the "most fair" Monopoly experience
Risk is a game that may deserve your attention for a future video. One strategy I've seen used by a power player is to trade a final card of some color to someone who has nothing else, in order to stymie another power player. So, using the example of trading away the last orange card, one might trade that to the player who is struggling, knowing that player will put houses on it, right before the other powerhouse player has to navigate past it.
Yeah risk has been asked for a lot and it's definitely one of my personal favorites. Yeah the orange card idea is super clever and I've done it a few times. Only reason I didn't add it is it would've been insane to try and convey in a decent way, but it's definitely a really good way to take down someone who might have gotten stronger than you. As long as they hit them and not you!
@@whatswhat2022 I'm late but in considering tactics on *Risk*, there are things that I would like to point out mentioned or to be questioned in the future strategy guide in debunking these pointers. ~ 1. Everyone knows the "turtle Australia" and "SA stronghold" techniques, so I wonder in a long game if these areas can be pigeon hold since everyone is racing for these territories? ~ 2. (mythbusting) Best to control Asia territory if only have the iron grip in Europe territory. In personal experience and game set, Europe has 5 troups bonus and its in the better part (by logistics) of the board if bother to get Asia (despite being placed in the dangerous part of the board by looks). ~3. NA is actually also a good territory to hold first other than SA (4 troups bonus and 3 fronts, sweet deal!). Africa territory is vulnerable in a short game but a good stronghold in pair with SA territory in a long game. I'm not too sure if they're clarify well but hopefully answered. And also I've only played in random on online but rarely on docking territories traditionally.
What an incredible video! You can feel the passion and effort put into this one... I love to learn strategies even for games like monopoly. I already knew some tricks and this helped me to reinforce and also learn new things. This is making me challenge my family and make tricky trades to them
I have been searching for a video such as this all my life. THANK YOU, MASTER STRATEGIST!! For FINALLY Proving that Monopoly HAS a strategy part to it and is Not just PURE LUCK!!
As a kid i always won when playing with real rules, like 10% and selling fees. But when playing with house rules, like every other kid does, free parking, no fees for selling homes, etc... i always lost.... I think i actually nailed everything right as a kid. Although i did put more weight onto dark blues IF i had the cash and would gladly give up oranges for the blues.
Every time I play with basic rules, the game always ends up in a stalemate, because no one is willing to do any trades before all the properties have been bought and after they will not let you get a monopoly no matter what, so trading becomes useless.
@@PropiaPersona XD I would not let anyone have a monopoly if I had a monopoly already, and there were no other threat on the board. Picture this, I had all the railroads, and there were no other monopolies up. I would slowly bleed the competition out. Same goes for the browns, or any other monopoly. Do not give an inch when ahead is a very viable gameplan, unless you can get even further ahead with lesser risks than what you gain. 🙂 I have seen a lot of YT videos in a competative monopoly setting.(swiftor) and I often see players taking high risk trades when they are ahead, and are holding leverage, giving it away. And thus creating unnecessary risks on the board for themselves.
Dog is adorable 😍 makes me only want to be the dog for now on lol. This video is super informative and helpful. I’m going to try to kick my boyfriends butt on it with these tips 😉 thanks for making it!
I’ve found the greatest deciding factor when playing monopoly against the computer is just rolling high numbers and getting around go and landing on more spaces and buying up everything you can (to an extent)
Eehhh, not really for me Even playing it fast, it won't take less than 50 minutes to a match to end, and not to mention its "american trash" core element: the players who are eliminated have to wait whatever time it takes till the game is over. Basically, forcing this person into "idle mode", where they must wait for the entire board to be finish so they can move into doing something else This kinda game like Monopoly, War and several others always sounds fun on paper, but at the end everyone is tired of playing board games for the entire day
Any advanced strategy video on Monopoly should talk about housing shortages and the hotel trap. I often trade for the 'bad' color groups, if it will allow me to create a housing shortage. If I can get the Light Blue and Maroon properties with 4 houses each (so 12 each on each group), all the other players have to share 8 houses between them. And you do NOT want to have to sell hotels when there is a housing shortage! (You must sell the hotels in their entirety.) Warm regards, Rick.
@@kingol4801 Hi King gol, Actually not. Monopoly comes with exactly 32 houses and 12 hotels, and the rules say what happens when the houses run out. If you play in a Monopoly tournament, you will see people deliberately engineering housing shortages. Warm regards, Rick.
@@microsfan Hi To Be Propst 6539, Er.. Yes! Corrected my original post. If you grab 12 houses each on two properties, there would be only 8 houses left, not ten. Thank you! Warm regards, Rick.
Good advice. I have been playing an online monopoly-like game against the AI for a few months and I had uncovered several of these strategies. A course in statistics and probability almost 20 years ago helped. But I hadn't quite fleshed it all out yet and I certainly didn't see some of these strategies. One oddity I have seen in a lot of these games is how one AI would get all four railroads and nothing else and somehow managed to obtain and retain the highest cash balance right up to the end of the game. It was both mysterious and frustrating since beating them became a matter of slowly but inexorably wearing them down. After watching this video, it finally clicked for me. I like to play with max players (8 in this case). That's a heck of a lot of money supply and every player is one roll away from one of the railroads. Now I see how that builds up a monstrous bank account for that player. It's a losing strategy in the end game if the ai doesn't get any other properties, but it does insulate them from the shocks of landing on a hotel so it's at least a great strategy for surviving into the late game. Fun stuff! Thanks for the video
this video was literally made for me lol I was playing a game with 3 other people and I had the light blue and green monopolies, and this game been going for 4 live hours, started 2 days ago lmao. Great video overall
I knew i was onto something whenever I rushed to buy up all the red ones. Then i usually go for railroads and utilities, trying to get as many as I possibly can. I remember I damn near bankrupted someone who had both blue ones with hotels on them cause they landed on my railroad and then red properties with 3 houses on them back to back and they were already low on money cause they just bought the hotels.
I used green in a fast game. I sold a lot of properties for money and only kept the green. With the money (the others had not much left) I developed green rapidly (bought 3 hotels straight away). The others never got over it, landed on green and had to close or give up properties (to me of course). Game was over after 3 turns.
Catan won out for first video: ruclips.net/video/xZwhT_1lEU8/видео.html
Which video should I make next....Clue or Risk?
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Life is just so unpredictable, I did not expect i would be watching monopoly tutorials today lol
Nah, just say you're here for the memes 🤷♂️
@@whatswhat2022 Funny that they say this!, Maybe the game of Life would an interesting one ^^
me: I really need to go to bed its 1 AM
my brain: no, we really need to know how to beat someone in a game we only play once a year.
Monopolizing my time is just so unpredictable, I don't expect to be watching a Game of Life tutorial one day lol
Me either but I’m happy I’m here😂
A guide on how to win Jenga every time would be very interesting, factoring the physics of course as well as how to pull so your opponents are most likely to make the tower fall apart
Taking into account size variance, wind speed, seismic factors, topple probability. Sure yeah that could be interesting
I second this. Please do Jenga.
Yeah
@@whatswhat2022 don’t forget to include the finger size classes of all possible opponents and how to play with/against them.
@@whatswhat2022and all the chances that everyone else picks every other block
Here I am watching Monopoly tutorials, despite not having played Monopoly in years and having no immediate plans to. High quality content!
In the advanced video you should mention the house supply of 32 houses. If you manage to get both the browns and light blues, your objective would be to build four houses on each. That would leave only 12 houses left for all the other opponents combined. Unless you get someone really lucky, chances are you'll slowly bleed everyone dry with rents in the $300 to $400 range.
I would never pass up buying the browns. The $60 property cost is nothing and they are very cheap to develop. They are a great cash cow, especially if you own another group.
that's my tactic - monopoly of houses = win.
Agreed. I learned this the hard way when playing with some friends. One of them was nearly bankrupt and had no sets of properties. They traded 2 different colored properties to someone who could get 2 monopolies for some cash and the last brown. They placed hotels two turns later and they almost won because people were losing their go money. The crack shack gambit can be crazy frustrating lol
Unless you get that damn community chest card that’s 40$ each house
@@-5FPS obviously that can easily be a game-changer. But you have to play Monopoly of a game of odds and do what makes sense to put the odds in your favor. Sure, some games are won or lost based on pure luck.
@econoverse3209 I'm stealing "crack shack gambit".
I did not expect to be watching a monopoly tutorial at 04:14 am, but I enjoyed every second of it.
im doing the exact same
@@yalcan967same here
Bro get a life and sleep
5:00 am😂
Same
I just comment because of the more than 10.000 moving parts, each done by hands as well as decades worth of Monopoly knowledge made to make it the best Monopoly video possible.
A guide to Catan would be awesome, factoring in the possibility of 5 or 6 players if time allows
Yes I’d like that as well!
I've only played Catan a few times, I guess I'd better start learning some strategy haha
That’s what I was thinking
@@whatswhat2022You might want to check out Dylighted (RUclips), he is a pro player who seems very interested in optimal strategy.
Catan is a game of luck there is no skill to Catan.
Thank you, family game nights have been so much more fun now. I usually always won Monopoly anyway until my entire family started all teaming up to try to take me down early. Now, they make deals with me that they are sure are going to be my downfall and then are all taken back when I still emerge victorious! Good stuff!
My family has all decided that they will no longer allow me to play Monopoly…. 😢 this is was a great way for me to get an edge but has seemingly backfired! I guess I will be settling for beating down strangers on the app!
@@MrSTPFAN1bro what
@@MrSTPFAN1 he said yapping yapping yapping yapping yapping
Grandma has no idea what’s coming…
😂
Finally the advanced has come out. I can finally beat my family at the next reunion.
DESTROY THEM!
@@whatswhat2022I smashed my sister before watching the how to win monopoly knowing that orange was the most common properties to land on and got all 4 stations as well I also traded her greens and yellows for worse cards because she had no money from the orange
I remember playing a game with my cousins where I owned like all of orange, red, yellow, and green or something like that. I made so much money that almost all of the 500 bills were in my possession. mostly because I constantly had to swap out my 100s to keep the bank full for everyone's go money and stuff. One of them owned both blue properties with hotels, and I felt absolutely nothing when I landed on boardwalk. It was the most solid game of monopoly I ever played
I have a brown street strategy that worked most times. I rush to get both brown places, since they're pretty cheap and most other players don't want them. From then on it costs 50 to build a house and 200 to build a hotel- so 800 for two hotels right in the beginning of the game. It makes it up after two times of someone landing on it and if you manage to do it fast enough, it can win the game in record time, since other players need to pay you 400 or 450 right at the beginning. Even if not, it gives a very nice head start for the rest of the game- it's low risk high reward
I do the same except I do light blue too.
@@1Rez_EZ1Light blue with hotels are crazy, especially the house prices are the same as brown, overpowered
Doing a guide for mega monopoly would be nice. I don't hear too many people talk about it, but it is hands down the most interesting monopoly, and my favorite. There's a lot of house rules that people make, but there's still some strategies I have found even when rules are played differently that can definitly give you the upper hand
Yeah that could be really cool
read the original english rulebook on the internet, it has some interesting tips like mortgaging your properties that are behind your developed properties to open up the way for a mr monopoly roll to slide the victim to your color sets
its like monopoly, but game is so much slower, and defense tactic is even more useful
@@tugalic3979 i actually find it to play faster with the speed dice, almost half the properties are bought on the first lap, and you get more money so it's not rare to see the light blues or browns get developed on the first lap
I love mega monopoly best one out there
This is a very good analysis of the game. I'd never thought about the time differences between green and blue properties. Very good job!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I really enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing and for all your hard work. Glad to see it didn't go unnoticed.
This stuff is incredible. Straight info, no downtime, easy to comprehend. Your effort shows through!
I swear my brain never ever realized that owning all properties of one color is called a MONOPOLY. I love your videos man! :)
As many times as I've played Monopoly, I have never thought about how much cash the other players have . . . . Your advice now makes total sense, and now I just have to find a few people to play Monopoly with....
So glad I found your channel, excellent video. Loved the 1st and 2nd was even better. Clear and concise explanation and points. I really enjoy the style and you pack in so much information. Thank you!!!
Thanks! I packed in as much as I could!
@@whatswhat2022i can't believe brown slander justice for browns
Amazing part two! Like other people in the comments, I'd like to see a Risk and/or Catan video. I normally win at Risk, but I feel like I only win because my opponents are usually ignorant about certain strategies.
Those two games are the leaders so far. I've only played Catan a few times so I'd need to start forming some strategies for it. Then Risk is interesting, one of my favorite games but I don't actually know the breakdowns for how the probabilities would work or which continents work best. Both would probably make great videos!
Risk isn't hard to figure out. Some of it is luck, but mostly knowing when to defend and when to blitz someone and knock them out, taking their cards. Australia and south/north America is king. Then it's just keeping a finger in the other continents so they can't draw cards.
The Game Night risk on Switch is actually a very good rendition. Far better than the Monopoly one imo. Though the AI does make some questionable moves at times.
Draw units, not cards.
@@InternetLad Yeah I love the game night risk, also totally underrated but how fast you blaze through dice rolls is great. The monopoly game isn't as good, I've played better video game versions
Man you are awesome 💪, merry Christmas!
Thank god for this video! I've recently been searching for new ways to aggravate and alienate my friends and family and I think this is just the inspiration I was looking for
Great video! Your editting and explainations surpass many current RUclipsrs. My suggestion for the next how to win video is Guess Who! as that could give you a chance to flex your statistics skills!
Ooooh interesting idea!
Someone has already done it, forgot who but if you put it in youtune search you can find jt
winning at guess who is easy though- make the most broad guesses. that way about half of the board gets knocked down every time
That was great! Forget Monopoly, these two videos have principles that apply to a ton of games. This is a very different way of playing board games from what I typically engage in when I play. I'm going to apply these principles when I want to win - maybe with sufficient practice these can be employed with very little mental overhead, but I would likely find them exhausting the first few times and they would preclude me from freely having fun - though who cares about fun if you just want to win?!?
Thanks for the great video, Bob.
Congrats on having your monopoly series your most viewed videos. You deserve it for all the hard work and effort you put into these. Keep up the great work.🎉
Thanks I appreciate it!
A guide to either Risk or Catan would be great, thanks for the awsome video!
Risk would be a fun one.
Both sound like very good videos! Thanks for liking the video!
I love risk but never figured out how to master it, might need to get into the trenches on it
@@whatswhat2022 no problem man! If you keep making good content I'll keep coming back, liking, and showing others!
Well the plan is certainly to keep making good content!
OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!!!! I JUST WON MY FIRST GAME OF MONOPOLY, I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT MY NEW SKILL I JUST LEARNED. I HOPE YOU MAKE MORE OF THIS
Good job mate. The editing on this was really good quality, and clearly you put a lot of passion on this.
Nice job! Good luck with your channel!
Glad you watched it!
This tutorial is awesome, I've never thought that Monopoly was that complex!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I crammed in as much as I could into the video, I wish I knew how to animate faster!
Best , elegant, and efficient way to describe a game
Quality video, as someone who gets targeted for winning the game to much and never being able to get monopoly’s I found some of your tips very useful. Only problem is I’ll become so good no one will want to play. +1 sub
5D Chess Move: intentionally lose games so that people will play more Monopoly with you, and thereby get more wins overall
I love boardgames, and I love seeing that other people love them as much as I do and understand how to play them well! Great work on the video, the editing is very well done!
Board games are great
Im here watching this at 6 am after a 5hs monopoly game with friends. It was crazy. Ahh and tomorrow im waking up at 9
This is far more extensive than it had any right to be. Well done!
This is amazing, going into the matter of the game and find every strategy to explain this very easily in 2 videos. Great work!
Glad you liked it! I crammed as much as I could while trying to make it still entertaining
This video changed my life. I have never lost a game after this video. Thank you for making me overthink every scenario of monopoly.
These may be a little more out there than the Risk and Catan suggestions that seem to be most common, but Fury of Dracula or 7 Wonders (duel or regular) would be very interesting to see. Fantastic mini-series!
wow, after watching this mini series i'm certainly going to stay subscribed for more stuff like this, havent played monopoly since i was young and i used to think it was all based on luck
Very good analysis of Monopoly from the axis of time and value, which is a universal concept in many games. I really liked this!
The problem with the housing thing is that when the people who you play with also know this, which they do in my case, then they never let go of a property, e.g if you want or buy an orange and you already have one then, my family will only sell it for over 500, and more like 1000 if you have 2, which means it is Extremely hard to get a set and most people only give someone a cards needed to get a set if you give the Same to them, so you never get a lead in development
Yeah... these videos work under the assumption that the opponent doesn't understand the game. In real games people will try to prevent others from gaining monopolies and gaining one becomes highly dependant on luck. Luck in general plays a big role in this game, it isn't chess or anything where the most skilled player always wins, so it's very questionable to claim this is "how to always win at Monopoly"
Also, in his example of a "strategic play" (where he gave the dog the orange card), he had something like 1500 worth of property, while his opponents had around 500 and 1000 in property and cash. His play was only possible because he already had a massive advantage. Surely anyone can win when he has more stuff than his opponents combined, I don't understand the point
Anyone that sells someone a monopoly and leaves them with enough cash to buy houses or without getting a monopoly of some sort themselves are idiots, me and my friends usually only do it after we stall mate and we get bored 😂
Also in games and not the physical board game it’s pure random and you’re at the fate of RnG and makes a luck based game even more luck based and some the rules like auctioning every property you don’t buy makes it even harder as you’re giving other players the possibility to get easy monopoly’s themselves potentially
@@eirebhoy132 This is also my experience. No one is willing to make a trade that gives the other person the opportunity to develop, which leads to the game stalling. After everyone is bored because nothing is happening, everyone agrees to equal trades which leads to the game being only a matter of luck.
thank you so much for this video! Eager to see more videos like this series but for other games, such as coup, risk, clue, rummikub.. the list is so big!!
yeah there could really be some good ones!
This channel consistently breaks down board games pretty well. Thanks!
4:48 "can give anyone a bad day if they land on it"
it gave me a bad week😂😂😂
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An important tip is to buy at least one of every color. This gives you the option to trade with others. Also remember houses are limited in the game. It's an option to not build a hotel and only 4 houses, to keep the others from making money. This is especially important when you play with house rules that give more money or extend the game. With no auctions, the game takes longer, because some streets take longer to get and prevents players to get a cheap deal. With more money, players can afford high rents and the goal is stall others.
With the official rules, the game is actually short, so maybe insist on playing by the book and maybe make the game more fun, because bankruptcy doesn't take so long. It makes no fun when for 2 hours one player is slowly draining your money and due to more money, it takes longer and you have the feeling of maybe turning the game into your favor.
There is a lot here i dont think normal people realize. you should basically never buy hotels unless you cannot control the amount of houses there. preventing others from buying houses is a HUGE advantage accomplished by just building the 4 and not allowing others to build. also, you are so right about the rules. The game does not take that long as is commonly thought. It only takes so long when house rules are added (especially extra money for landing on free parking)
Yea i agree with this
Study and know the official rules like the back of your hand, and only agree to play Monopoly with people who will play by these rules. Otherwise, fights start. Because it’s inevitable someone will have some random stupid house rule that they pull out of their ass when it’s advantageous to them. Also, non-official rules lead to the game taking way too long.
In my place, there are a bunch of house rules that I dont even know how the official looks like. Could you suggest me some refs to the official rules? I really want to play by the book. Thanks in advance, I appreciate it a lot if you help me.
I like this idea, but every time I've tried it I just ended up spreading myself too thin because it's expensive to buy one of everything.
I vote for the guide to winning at Splendor! Good job on the video
Thanks!
To win splendor , never buy the first row of options, the cheap ones. Only cards that give VP. The buying rate of the first row, takes 2-3 cards before getting a decent deal on a point card. Skip the middle man
This is awesome! Congrats on the viral video! Wish I knew this when I was a kid.
Make a how to win a Battle Ship video next
Also, I love these kinds of videos and glad I stumbled across your channel!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
One strategy you haven't mentioned is controlling the house supply. There is a set number of houses in the game and sometimes it's better to not upgrade to a hotel to prevent someone else being able to build.
The house supply strategy is good, you just usually can force the game to end first. If houses become short and the game is even, then yeah using up the house supply can work to your favor for sure
@@chellnz this. i always do this and win everytime
THIS. It's nowhere in your videos, but what you want and NEED to win is to MONOPOLIZE the housing supply! That's why I will always go for Orange (because, duh, they're the best properties to win with), Pink (again, because it's in the most-landed strip after Jail and not so expensive to buy houses on), Light Blue _AND_ Brown, because they can be had for cheap and the cost to soak up the remaining houses is very low. Eight houses on the brown properties will set you back just $400, the cost of just two houses on the Dark Blues. If you allow someone to build to hotels, and then you soak up ALL the houses (aka, don't go to hotels, just four houses on the monopolies), when they have to sell any of the houses, they'll be down to no homes at all, making it very difficult for your opponents to get serious cash out of you or your opponents. Make sure you have space and money to buy houses the instant your opponents have to sell them to make rent. Absolutely ensure you buy up the houses as quickly as you can and there's no way you'll lose...Unless of course you get hit for the Property Improvement cards where you have to pay per house on your properties. If that gets picked up by another player who has no houses, thank your stars you didn't get it.
You actually need to think before you do this for a reason. There’s 1 Community Chest and Chance Card that makes you pay for your buildings.
@@CalebN. Yeah, I've been hit with these cards while holding onto the 32 houses, and yes, it hurts. The hope is that you've got enough cash in the bank from everyone else landing on the improved properties to be able to handle the financial hit of those cards.
I played an online game right after watching, I just got the developed house on orange as soon as I could and I was the only one without multiple monopolies, yet I still won.
Amazing guide.
Great tips, thanks a lot! Now I just need someone to play the game with me - my wife hates it 😅
The most challenging part of all
I'm suprised you didn't mention getting a monopoly on housing. With only 32 houses, it only takes 8 properties with 4 houses each to completely lock the game and prevent anyone from upgrading their properties. This greatly increases the value of Brown and Blue, as if you can make "bad" trades to get them, you can build lots of houses and limit the supply. This allows only one other color set to be completed. Even if you don't have those sets... building cheap houses (and ignoring hotels) is a good way to limit the supply of houses, and players will be forced to only build a few houses each.
Honestly you deserve more subscribers that you have. This vid helped me so much thanks!
Another strategy I didn’t see you cover is that if you have a whole set of properties, It would be in your best interest to just buy houses instead of a hotel. There’s only a limited amount of houses in the game. Once all the houses are taken by the players. There are no more houses to build on which means players don’t get the chance to raise their rent. (This strategy usually works when there’s more than 2 players in the game.)
I was about to say the same thing, and this is a very important strategy to learn.
When I play usually we just use coins or other small things as house or hotel supplements, never thought about playing with a limit
@@snowy5419 - cording to the official rules. Once the game is out of houses and hotels, you can’t buy anymore. So it is best strategy to try to put four houses on your property so other people can’t buy more once the 32 house limit is reached.
@@holdmanchristmas guess I havent read all the rules guess its be nice to switch it up next time, just always thought Hasbro was being cheap and not giveing all the houses I guess
I love this strategy of buying all houses and blocking others.
I buy browns and light blues, so I can buy houses cheaply.
"Wow, this video is a game-changer! I've always struggled with Monopoly and never quite understood how to gain the upper hand. But thanks to this advanced strategy guide, I feel like I've finally cracked the code to winning every time! The tips and techniques shared here are incredibly insightful, providing a whole new level of depth to the game. The host's clear explanations and examples make it easy to grasp even for beginners like me. Now I can't wait to put these tactics into practice and dominate my next Monopoly game night. Thank you for sharing this invaluable knowledge!"
absolutely hooked on this video for some reason ... wish you did a less than 10 min. video on the official rules of Monopoly as well as maybe another in regards to how you'd design a more balanced board (property value shifts, card additions/removals, payouts, systems, etc.) for the "most fair" Monopoly experience
Risk is a game that may deserve your attention for a future video.
One strategy I've seen used by a power player is to trade a final card of some color to someone who has nothing else, in order to stymie another power player. So, using the example of trading away the last orange card, one might trade that to the player who is struggling, knowing that player will put houses on it, right before the other powerhouse player has to navigate past it.
Yeah risk has been asked for a lot and it's definitely one of my personal favorites. Yeah the orange card idea is super clever and I've done it a few times. Only reason I didn't add it is it would've been insane to try and convey in a decent way, but it's definitely a really good way to take down someone who might have gotten stronger than you. As long as they hit them and not you!
@@whatswhat2022 I'm late but in considering tactics on *Risk*, there are things that I would like to point out mentioned or to be questioned in the future strategy guide in debunking these pointers.
~ 1. Everyone knows the "turtle Australia" and "SA stronghold" techniques, so I wonder in a long game if these areas can be pigeon hold since everyone is racing for these territories?
~ 2. (mythbusting) Best to control Asia territory if only have the iron grip in Europe territory. In personal experience and game set, Europe has 5 troups bonus and its in the better part (by logistics) of the board if bother to get Asia (despite being placed in the dangerous part of the board by looks).
~3. NA is actually also a good territory to hold first other than SA (4 troups bonus and 3 fronts, sweet deal!). Africa territory is vulnerable in a short game but a good stronghold in pair with SA territory in a long game.
I'm not too sure if they're clarify well but hopefully answered. And also I've only played in random on online but rarely on docking territories traditionally.
What an incredible video! You can feel the passion and effort put into this one...
I love to learn strategies even for games like monopoly. I already knew some tricks and this helped me to reinforce and also learn new things. This is making me challenge my family and make tricky trades to them
I have been searching for a video such as this all my life.
THANK YOU, MASTER STRATEGIST!!
For FINALLY Proving that Monopoly HAS a strategy part to it and is Not just PURE LUCK!!
My tip: If you play against your grandma and she lands on your property and cant afford rent, just kick her out!
I have always loved monopoly and thoroughly enjoyed both of your videos! Besides being sincere, I hope I am helping the youtube algorithm
As a kid i always won when playing with real rules, like 10% and selling fees. But when playing with house rules, like every other kid does, free parking, no fees for selling homes, etc... i always lost....
I think i actually nailed everything right as a kid. Although i did put more weight onto dark blues IF i had the cash and would gladly give up oranges for the blues.
House rules can be fun but the game gets so chaotic and drug out, the basic rules definitely make the game work better
Every time I play with basic rules, the game always ends up in a stalemate, because no one is willing to do any trades before all the properties have been bought and after they will not let you get a monopoly no matter what, so trading becomes useless.
@@vilkku792 you have to all agree that everyone will get a monopoly and trade properties and/or cash to get I done
@@PropiaPersona XD I would not let anyone have a monopoly if I had a monopoly already, and there were no other threat on the board. Picture this, I had all the railroads, and there were no other monopolies up. I would slowly bleed the competition out. Same goes for the browns, or any other monopoly. Do not give an inch when ahead is a very viable gameplan, unless you can get even further ahead with lesser risks than what you gain. 🙂
I have seen a lot of YT videos in a competative monopoly setting.(swiftor) and I often see players taking high risk trades when they are ahead, and are holding leverage, giving it away. And thus creating unnecessary risks on the board for themselves.
Dog is adorable 😍 makes me only want to be the dog for now on lol. This video is super informative and helpful. I’m going to try to kick my boyfriends butt on it with these tips 😉 thanks for making it!
The dog is a great piece! And little Bentley makes a good visual for the dog!
I’ve found the greatest deciding factor when playing monopoly against the computer is just rolling high numbers and getting around go and landing on more spaces and buying up everything you can (to an extent)
I like the editing 😊
Thanks!
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Great video
THE BEST GAME OF ALL TIME IS MONOPOLY!
After chess of course
Hell yes
Hard to argue with chess
Love it
Eehhh, not really for me
Even playing it fast, it won't take less than 50 minutes to a match to end, and not to mention its "american trash" core element: the players who are eliminated have to wait whatever time it takes till the game is over. Basically, forcing this person into "idle mode", where they must wait for the entire board to be finish so they can move into doing something else
This kinda game like Monopoly, War and several others always sounds fun on paper, but at the end everyone is tired of playing board games for the entire day
Any advanced strategy video on Monopoly should talk about housing shortages and the hotel trap. I often trade for the 'bad' color groups, if it will allow me to create a housing shortage. If I can get the Light Blue and Maroon properties with 4 houses each (so 12 each on each group), all the other players have to share 8 houses between them.
And you do NOT want to have to sell hotels when there is a housing shortage! (You must sell the hotels in their entirety.)
Warm regards, Rick.
Housing shortage simply means that one did not get enough playing models.
That is an exploit, not a real feature.
@@kingol4801No, it's part of the game not an exploit. There's a reason why it's called MONOPOLY
Umm, wouldn't be 12 houses between them?
@@kingol4801
Hi King gol,
Actually not. Monopoly comes with exactly 32 houses and 12 hotels, and the rules say what happens when the houses run out. If you play in a Monopoly tournament, you will see people deliberately engineering housing shortages.
Warm regards, Rick.
@@microsfan
Hi To Be Propst 6539,
Er.. Yes! Corrected my original post. If you grab 12 houses each on two properties, there would be only 8 houses left, not ten. Thank you!
Warm regards, Rick.
I love these tips more than Monopoly itself
WHOs here in 2025?
How to win irl
Just be excellent
This is pretty cool, Bob. Thanks!
Love this and the voice over is top quality
Good advice. I have been playing an online monopoly-like game against the AI for a few months and I had uncovered several of these strategies. A course in statistics and probability almost 20 years ago helped. But I hadn't quite fleshed it all out yet and I certainly didn't see some of these strategies.
One oddity I have seen in a lot of these games is how one AI would get all four railroads and nothing else and somehow managed to obtain and retain the highest cash balance right up to the end of the game. It was both mysterious and frustrating since beating them became a matter of slowly but inexorably wearing them down. After watching this video, it finally clicked for me. I like to play with max players (8 in this case). That's a heck of a lot of money supply and every player is one roll away from one of the railroads. Now I see how that builds up a monstrous bank account for that player. It's a losing strategy in the end game if the ai doesn't get any other properties, but it does insulate them from the shocks of landing on a hotel so it's at least a great strategy for surviving into the late game.
Fun stuff! Thanks for the video
I‘ve always been doing this based on my feelings, but now I understand the reasons! Thanks!
Thanks, I’ll try to remember some of the strategies
Very nice videos. I'll try your strategies this winter, when the indoor season comes again.
this video was literally made for me lol I was playing a game with 3 other people and I had the light blue and green monopolies, and this game been going for 4 live hours, started 2 days ago lmao.
Great video overall
I loved this video so much. Thanks for taking the time to make it.
This is a amazing video! Great work!
I would’ve never guessed that peak of my self improvement era will be watching monopoly tutorials… but it was GREAT👁️👁️♥️
Blokus would be a good one to see strategized.
There’s also housing shortages. If you have the cheap monopolies you can hoard houses so no one can threaten you, but street repairs is risky.
Definitely a good tutorial! Thanks for the hard work.
I’d love Info on Ticket to Ride
Great information, and I learned some great strategies. Keep it going.
I knew i was onto something whenever I rushed to buy up all the red ones. Then i usually go for railroads and utilities, trying to get as many as I possibly can. I remember I damn near bankrupted someone who had both blue ones with hotels on them cause they landed on my railroad and then red properties with 3 houses on them back to back and they were already low on money cause they just bought the hotels.
Here's my comment to raise engagement. Thanks for making this
I will play monopoly with my family soon and because i want to win i watched both of your videos! They are really helpful
I won with 4 RR and BW and PP. Did exactly what the video said. Someone else was ahead and paid me a massive $1100 which put me ahead.
Wow, you're incredible. Thank you for the advanced video too.
Love this video and love the channel, entertaining and informative, love it thanks bro I’ll let you know boy this works
A in depth video on how to win in risk would be awesome. It’s a very strategic game on conquering and is very hard with lots of players
Best channel of all time
Thank you for the awesome video
I needed this 25 years ago!
I used green in a fast game. I sold a lot of properties for money and only kept the green. With the money (the others had not much left) I developed green rapidly (bought 3 hotels straight away). The others never got over it, landed on green and had to close or give up properties (to me of course). Game was over after 3 turns.
Great vid brotherman