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Subject: Re: 1000 Ways to Win Monopoly Games
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 15:11:00 EDT
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> > Has anyone else seen the book "100 Ways to Win Monopoly Games"?
> > ....  		  I only get to play about once every year
> > or two (only a 4 player game counts as a game), but I haven't
> > lost since I read that book.

> Sure would.  I'm almost ashamed to admit it but Monopoly is still one of my
> favorite board games.  Sounds like I have to find a copy of that book.  I
> have a book on Monopoly and have done some statistical analysis and was
> working on a Monopoly "adviser" (program) for a while but put it aside to
> move onto other things.  If anyone would like to discuss some of the things
> that came out of my mathematical analysis of the game, I'd be happy to dig up
> the results of my investigations.  They must be lying around somewhere...

(three levels deep now...) I've read the '100 ways to win Monopoly' book
from the Public Library (plug: visit 'em!) and wasn't all that impressed
with it.  Most of the stuff they talk about is either common sense or I
had already figured out with a program I wrote which:

-	had the complete board internally, including all the cards and the 
	actions that each card had (like 'go to jail').  I let it run over
	the weekend once and came back to a terrific list of how many times
	each property had been landed on after 5 MILLION times around the
	board (or some other ungodly huge number like that!) with the same
	results that the book were so thrilled about.  IT was pretty darn
	interesting, but most of the stuff is pretty darn intuitive - like
	the fact that Jail is the most landed on square, and that the 
	Community Chest after Jail is the next most landed on square, and
	THEN that the Illinois (7 again further) is actually the MOST
	landed on square on the board...

Anyway, I'd like to some day (when I have TIME!!) write a program that not
only supervises a game (which has been done before by (?) Ken Arnold) but
actually have it PLAY the game.

	Anyone have what they consider a good "computerizable" strategy,
speaking of which??  (uh oh - would this note go in 'net.games.comp' or
'net.games.board'??) (both!) (no - net.games.both!!)

	I too would be interested in not only a pbm monopoly game (if 
such a thing is possible!) but also would be willing to try pbm Risk,
although I ain't too good at that game.

			-- Dave "Killer Land (slum) lord" Taylor
			   Colorado Networks Operation

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