I made a mistake the other day.. I grabbed the handheld Monopoly game to play a quick game and was setting it up to play what I thought would be a four payer game against who I thought would be the toughest opponents on it.. I set to play the three others that were there, a choice between five, so pick the three you think will be tough since I've walked all over the game the last few times I've played it.. I pushed the numbers but when all was said and done I got only one opponent.. HOT SHOT..
Well that isn't what I wanted but decided to give it a shot.. And from the get go the computer player wanted to trade, first for the railroad (my first property) and then others as we went around.. Finally I traded the railroad later in the game, a mistake no doubt.. I saw how things were going in the game and the money as short, very little amount and as the cheap properties were gotten I decided to try my luck and go "slum lord" to try to win.. That's right, from having the most expensive and winning with them, to taking the cheapest and winning with them.. But in this case the cheapest properties are not the DU DU DU DU!! big hit properties that the big hits are.. Yes with hotels they can be expensive and I wanted to see if I could get by with the cheapos and build from there.. At hotel, I was nailed once.. Got the rent and then got nailed with the street repairs.. From there it seems like the game went downhill quickly.. I got the orange (dark yellow) upper lefthand properties I usually win with but decided to hold off on developing them (houses) beyond my better judgement.. And HOT SHOT got the red properties in monopoly and started to build.. The thing that I saw was with him coming around I waited a turn or two too long to develop the better properties..
Then the plan to stop the bleeding.. I took the houses down on the two cheapos and also mortgaged the properties and also traded a property for money at mortgaged a few other properties.. I was going all in to develop these three properties at the expense of everything else.. Has this strategy ever worked before?? It sounds beyond any idea of smart to try.. I have done this before and had it work.. This time however there were many things that were against me.. Hot shot had two or three houses on his properties and was making me lose my ass every time around.. I waited too long?? I went slum lord?? I should have tried to develop the entire cheap side of the board instead of the two cheapest.. Develop the whole slum side would make hot shot hit one of the seven along that side more often than just the two although I didn't have one of the baby blue properties I could have gotten it with the slightest of efforts. I was in a hurry to play the game and a few times did some stupid things.. I would think twice about some of them.. For instance there was a couple times where I wasn't paying attention to hot shots money on hand..
Landing on a property that hasn't been sold yet you have two options on the property, either buy it or have it go to auction.. I went to auction a couple times without knowing what the computer player had money wise.. That burned me both times, although two more times i was able to get properties for next to nothing which included getting Boardwalk for a ten shot.. Ten dollars because I was first bid and hot shot had ten dollars in that one.. Again that was a time I didn't know what he had and found out.. Another was a railroad and over bid and had to mortgage to buy it.. Big mistake.. On the computer game you can bid beyond what you have cash on hand, I usually know what everyone else has.. This time I bid beyond what I had and thought I would stop just shy of his broke limit.. Ooops, I screwed the pooch on several occasions.. It was my undoing and I would lose because I wasn't paying attention.. But I also lost because I am not very good at one on one game like this.. Better luck next time..
Badge Henry
Well that isn't what I wanted but decided to give it a shot.. And from the get go the computer player wanted to trade, first for the railroad (my first property) and then others as we went around.. Finally I traded the railroad later in the game, a mistake no doubt.. I saw how things were going in the game and the money as short, very little amount and as the cheap properties were gotten I decided to try my luck and go "slum lord" to try to win.. That's right, from having the most expensive and winning with them, to taking the cheapest and winning with them.. But in this case the cheapest properties are not the DU DU DU DU!! big hit properties that the big hits are.. Yes with hotels they can be expensive and I wanted to see if I could get by with the cheapos and build from there.. At hotel, I was nailed once.. Got the rent and then got nailed with the street repairs.. From there it seems like the game went downhill quickly.. I got the orange (dark yellow) upper lefthand properties I usually win with but decided to hold off on developing them (houses) beyond my better judgement.. And HOT SHOT got the red properties in monopoly and started to build.. The thing that I saw was with him coming around I waited a turn or two too long to develop the better properties..
Then the plan to stop the bleeding.. I took the houses down on the two cheapos and also mortgaged the properties and also traded a property for money at mortgaged a few other properties.. I was going all in to develop these three properties at the expense of everything else.. Has this strategy ever worked before?? It sounds beyond any idea of smart to try.. I have done this before and had it work.. This time however there were many things that were against me.. Hot shot had two or three houses on his properties and was making me lose my ass every time around.. I waited too long?? I went slum lord?? I should have tried to develop the entire cheap side of the board instead of the two cheapest.. Develop the whole slum side would make hot shot hit one of the seven along that side more often than just the two although I didn't have one of the baby blue properties I could have gotten it with the slightest of efforts. I was in a hurry to play the game and a few times did some stupid things.. I would think twice about some of them.. For instance there was a couple times where I wasn't paying attention to hot shots money on hand..
Landing on a property that hasn't been sold yet you have two options on the property, either buy it or have it go to auction.. I went to auction a couple times without knowing what the computer player had money wise.. That burned me both times, although two more times i was able to get properties for next to nothing which included getting Boardwalk for a ten shot.. Ten dollars because I was first bid and hot shot had ten dollars in that one.. Again that was a time I didn't know what he had and found out.. Another was a railroad and over bid and had to mortgage to buy it.. Big mistake.. On the computer game you can bid beyond what you have cash on hand, I usually know what everyone else has.. This time I bid beyond what I had and thought I would stop just shy of his broke limit.. Ooops, I screwed the pooch on several occasions.. It was my undoing and I would lose because I wasn't paying attention.. But I also lost because I am not very good at one on one game like this.. Better luck next time..
Badge Henry
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