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From: wws@whuxlm.UUCP (Stoll W William)
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Subject: Re: Re: 1000 Ways to Win Monopoly Games
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Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 21:54:19 EDT
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> > 
> > -	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.
> > 			-- Dave "Killer Land (slum) lord" Taylor
> 
> I did this years ago (as have others) and took the problem farther, to calcu-
> late expected income and return on investment (per token move) for each
> property on the board.  Then one can find optimum points of development for
> each property group (yes, it's usually but not always hotels) and relative
> profitability for each group.  There are some surprises in the results that
> no amount of intuition will indicate.

Both of these approaches were taken in the "1000 ways..." book and results
were put in the tables in the back.  Not bad for a book published before
the computer explosion (printed in 1975).  I think there are some other
tables as well, but I don't have the book in front of me!

Bill Stoll, ..!whuxlm!wws