Monopoly

Well, remember a couple blogs back, when I said I was off to play Monopoly again? Well, I did, and the outcome was frighteningly different. Same board, same players, same environment. This time, however, I learned from my mistakes. Well, some of them. We began playing, and I wasn't really rakin' it in. As stuff was getting purchased, I was going down...


A dollar and a dream...


My cousins all went for the normal big ticket items. Park Place and Boardwalk were the items in high demand, folk were clamoring to wheel and deal, railroads were bargaining tools (and utilities as well, it seemed), people KEPT going to jail, and people began to get set in their ways. What you see in the picture, however, was all the property and money I had when it was all over.



After this initial buyout, I knew that most of the people would have their minds set on monopolies. You see, the reason my cousin won the last game was because she knew the value of not only owning a monopoly, but improving upon it as well. I learned this lesson from her and applied it. Seeing that I owned the properties closest to the "Go To Jail" square, I figured this would keep my opponents a little more on the edge.




That's the way the board looked after I began to plant houses. I was the Thimble, playing more carefully than the frivolous bag of money I was last time. Sure, I landed on my cousin's Water Works and owed him money, but I was planting my trap.

He figured that by having both utilities, he could increase his renting profit margin (or so I lead myself to believe I was telling him). Anyway, I said that for about 200, I'd sell it to him. He agreed. So, my dollar and a dream went to:

His bad. You see, I needed $150 per house on my yellow properties, and I knew that selling that ulitity would throw the heat off my yellows, since I didn't completely own that side of the board. That's when it started:

Then, if you factor in the rent for those properties as follows:


I was checkin' money so much, I was just spending $100 bills and saving the rest. One of my other cousins who had the monopoly on the red properties had to give it all up when she landed on Marvin Gardens. That gave me the whole side, minus B&O. I made one more move that sealed the deal:


From there, I just caked it up until I ran everyone off the table.


Needless to say, I did the damn thing. I'm off to their house for round 3.

-B