300 Million Games of Monopoly Reveal Best Strategy; Perth Version Players Still Fighting Over Who Gets Broxden
Study finds hoarding cash is a mistake; Perth players say 'aye, but what about the parking'.
Perth, a city of strategic property purchases. Photo: fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com Canon 20D + Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 L, “Monopoly board on white bg”, via Wikimedia Commons, GFDL 1.2
PERTH — A huge study of 300 million games of Monopoly has found that the worst mistakes are refusing to trade, hoarding cash and stopping at three houses, and Perth families say this explains everything.
“In our house we play the Perth edition,” said a father from Kinross. “Nobody wants Broxden. Landing on it costs you three laps. And the Free Parking is the South Inch — but you have to use the app.”
One Scone grandmother has been unbeaten since 1987 “because I never trade, ever, with anyone, out of spite”, which the researchers say is technically a bad strategy, “but there are exceptions.”
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