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How To Win At Monopoly? Forget Boardwalk!

Monopoly – the board game almost everyone knows, and no one wants to play. And once you start it never ends! But someone claims to have nailed down the perfect strategy…

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Monopoly the board game almost everyone knows, and no one wants to play. And once you start it never ends!

But someone claims to have nailed down the perfect strategy to win. And no - it doesn't involve having a hotel on Boardwalk.  Here are a few of their suggestions:

1.  Always buy everything you can.  Seven turns into the game money becomes worthless in comparison to your properties.  And always play by the real rules, so if a person chooses NOT to buy, the property is auctioned to the highest bidder.

2.  Never buy the cheap purple or brown properties, utilities, or railroads WITH the intent of completing the set . . . instead use them as trades with worse players who think they're good.  Railroads in particular are VERY in demand but awful unless you get all four, at which point they're still worse than the light blues.

3.  The most valuable properties are the oranges and reds, because that's where most people land after getting out of jail.

4.  Get a full set as soon as possible, and put four houses on each, never a hotel.  As per the rules, once the houses in the box are gone, nobody can get any more, and therefore nobody can build hotels.  So you can cut others off by doing that.

If you know they game, they definitely make sense. So next time you actually decide to play, use the strategy!

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Carla Rea is the morning show co-host on “The Mike and Carla Morning Show" on 96.3 KKLZ, in Las Vegas. She has been working with her partner and friend Mike O'Brian for the past 25 plus years. At KKLZ for 12 years. Carla Rea is a Gracie Award winner. She started out in talk radio, "when talk radio was still fun" Rea says. Prior to, and along with doing the morning show, Carla is also a comedian. You may have seen her on Conan O'Brien, Evening at The Improv, Showtime, or several comedy clubs across the country. Carla also worked as a light feature reporter at KSNV/NBC Las Vegas, going behind the scenes at various shows, and restaurants on the Las Vegas strip. As a content creator 96.3 KKLZ, Carla writes in a sarcastic, cheeky, unapologetic way on Las Vegas, movies, TV, celebrities, and this thing we call life.