HOW TO WIN AT GAMES

CHRISTMAS: THE SEASON OF GOODWILL, AND BEATING YOUR FAMILY INTO SUBMISSION. HERE ARE A FEW TIPS TO SPEED YOU TO VICTORY. IT MIGHT BE CHRISTMAS BUT THAT’S NO REASON TO GO EASY ON AUNT JOAN

By Tom Whipple (Ebury Press)

MONOPOLY WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT? A timeless classic. Build a property empire… as well as family rifts that will persist for decades. ANALYSIS Buy orange. In Monopoly, jail is the single most-landed-on square, because there are so many ways of arriving at it. But it’s more about leaving jail. As the most common numbers thrown with two dice are 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, the orange properties – 6, 8 and 9 throws away – offer the steadiest revenue stream. For every 100 hits on purple or blue, you tend to get 122 on orange and red. It’s also about the amount you can extract. Add up the total required to buy all the properties and put hotels on them. Then add up the maximum rent on each property. The higher the ratio of…

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