Monopoly is a chance based board game that replicates a capitalist system based on the economic theories of Henry George and his ideas about taxation. The idea is to create your own monopoly and bankrupt all of your opponents by acquiring a complete color group of property and building at least three level of houses on them to rack up the rent and significantly damaging to your opponents.
But as the video below illustrates, you can ace the game by not solely relying on luck and your capitalist instincts, but also employing a few math based tricks to take your opponents to the cleaners. Most of them revolve around calculating the probability of your next landing, the areas of highest traffic and calculating the estates that would result in the quickest break even on the investment.
Watch the video to become a monopoly champion!
