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I love to play Monopoly on the computer.. I remember playing one time on our way to Richfield Utah and being near to losing and  selling everything I had to try to get the properties that I knew would win the game, and sure enough I turned the corner and a while later I did win, but it was a struggle.. Why do I say this about playing this game?  I was thinking how similar the game of Monopoly is to real life.. When I play the game on the computer I have two "people" and let the computer have two or three, with two I have a true ally, MYSELF,  to help get things and play more fairly.. When I play the hand held version I figured out how to win.. The desk top computer version was a different story although very similar I found it hard to get things to go my way.. There is a specific formula to win Monopoly and I try to stick as close to it as possible.. The game follows the same path on the computer version but I always find that the one mistake that I make can haunt my later game stages.. The best thing to do is stay within your budget, where the computer player blows every dollar it has on houses/property..  I like to look at the board and if there is a particular menacing stretch of area to get through then I try to stay at least in the solvent area, enough money to pay the rents, at least until I get to payday or in this case GO..  What is the most interesting is knowing the very few things that help make playing in your favor.. one of the most important things is this.. The number of houses, and the fact that once the last of the houses are bought, there are no more.. And so I play the house shortage game, if you can't evenly build your property to hotels (one house at a time) then as many houses are available is as far as you can go.. Getting to the coveted hotel rent mark can't be reached without all the houses being built first, so even if you have the money to build, you can't just buy the hotels, bypassing the houses.. 

When I have myself in a game recently I tried to control every aspect of the game and could to a certain extent.. The trouble was trying to be fair was a hard thing to be. I had all the railroads, and the right properties to win the game easily, but what I was trying to do was play the game longer, extending it... It now reminds me of the financial situation the country is in.. The one thing about winning in Monopoly is once it is over and you force everyone out, YOU WIN   ..  But in the case of the real world you win by shitting on everyone.. Can our government fix things??   Good question.. Actually I think they could bet it will take the country failing a little first.. And a shitload of threats against he idiot republican/tea party...

Badge Henry