I understand that this wasn’t the focus of the post, but wouldn’t the best Monopoly strategy be to keep always winning until no one ever wants to play Monopoly with you again? Because you goal isn’t to end this game without losing friends, it’s to minimize total Monopoly-playing time without losing friends/
Unfortunately my friends would probably see winning too often as a good reason to collude against me. Although collusion would lower the average length of a game, it would probably raise the chance any individual friend wanted to play with me (because they would be winning more often, on average). Although I agree with you that that’s a strategy I hadn’t considered, which is quite an oversight given the content of the post!
Khoth has correctly identified that surely the best strategy is to convince my friends to play a similar but superior game, although this isn’t always possible. For example with the horse-traders I try to play Catan and with the roll-and-movers I play Pirates. Unfortunately if there are too many of both groups then the only thing they can compromise on is Monopoly, and I don’t have the persuasive skills to overcome the inertia.
However the fact there are a whole bunch of superior games to Monopoly sort of breaks the analogy I was driving at so I left it out of the main body of the post.
I understand that this wasn’t the focus of the post, but wouldn’t the best Monopoly strategy be to keep always winning until no one ever wants to play Monopoly with you again? Because you goal isn’t to end this game without losing friends, it’s to minimize total Monopoly-playing time without losing friends/
Unfortunately my friends would probably see winning too often as a good reason to collude against me. Although collusion would lower the average length of a game, it would probably raise the chance any individual friend wanted to play with me (because they would be winning more often, on average). Although I agree with you that that’s a strategy I hadn’t considered, which is quite an oversight given the content of the post!
Khoth has correctly identified that surely the best strategy is to convince my friends to play a similar but superior game, although this isn’t always possible. For example with the horse-traders I try to play Catan and with the roll-and-movers I play Pirates. Unfortunately if there are too many of both groups then the only thing they can compromise on is Monopoly, and I don’t have the persuasive skills to overcome the inertia.
However the fact there are a whole bunch of superior games to Monopoly sort of breaks the analogy I was driving at so I left it out of the main body of the post.
An even better strategy might be to bring along a better game and convince people to try it.