The Secret Tip That Will Help You Win Monopoly (And Ruin Friendships)

Monopoly has been around for yonks and it's always a family favourite! However, it's also infamous for ruining friendships and we've come across a new tip that might make your friends hare you more...

This secret strategy was uploaded to Imgur, involves the use of rules that many people don't know about, and having the rule-book nearby will speed up the process of dealing with the numerous complaints you'll receive during the game.

At the beginning, your goal is to gain a monopoly on some streets and begin improving those properties. The earlier you can do this, the better, and a three-property group is far superior to a two-property group if you need to choose.

Bonus tip: In terms of probability, the orange properties will be hit the most, as they are 6, 8 and 9 spaces from jail, which is the most commonly occupied space on the board. If you have the opportunity to get the orange set, go for it.

Once you've gained one monopoly, continue to fight for a second! A second monopoly will enable you to buy enough houses to create a housing shortage, effectively locking down the game for the other players.

A little-known rule of Monopoly is that the game has exactly 32 houses and 12 hotels. Once you run out of houses, no more can be purchased until they re-enter the supply by being sold or upgraded to hotels. If there are more players who want to build houses than there are houses available, they are auctioned off to the highest bidder, one at a time. The core of this strategy is to buy up as many houses as possible before anyone realizes what you're doing. It's like a supply in demand model, there's only so many houses to go around...

DO NOT UPGRADE TO HOTELS; this will prevent people from improving their own properties.

With a second monopoly completed, your next task is to improve those properties to three houses each, then all of your properties to four houses each. Six properties with three houses will give you more than half of the houses in the game, and four houses each will give you 75% of the total supply!

This will make it nearly impossible for your opponents to improve their own property in a meaningful way.

Give it a go next time, and we apologise in advance for any ruined frienships.