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How to use math to crush your friends at Monopoly like you've never done before

Monopoly
William Warby
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Monopoly is one of the classic American games. 

It's played among close friends, loved ones, and trusted business partners. 

It's also one of the few times in life where it's perfectly acceptable to want to systematically annihilate and crush the aforementioned friends, loved ones and partners. 

Well, we're here to help.

Monopoly has a major element of chance in it, and the best part about games of chance is that people with Microsoft Excel can basically solve them. 

We broke down the must-know math behind Monopoly as well as several lessons you can take away from what truly is The Most Dangerous Game. 

In this presentation, we'll teach you such concepts as:

  • The most important properties in the game
  • The crucial "axis" that will change the way you think about the shape of the board.
  • Where you should invest.
  • How to make moves so that your opponent will keep landing on your properties.
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Walt was Business Insider's Deputy Editor for Data and Analysis.Hickey is the author of You Are What You Watch, and also writes Numlock News, a daily morning newsletter. He came from FiveThirtyEight where he was chief culture writer. Walt previously worked at Business Insider from 2012 to 2013, and  graduated from The College of William and Mary with a degree in Applied Mathematics. In additon to his work on elections and data journalism, he also edits comics at Business Insider.In 2022, Hickey won the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting for his work on Business Insider's I Escaped A Chinese Internment Camp documenting the plight of Uyghurs in China.