A video tests Monopoly strategies across 300 million simulated games
The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games [video]
A Hacker News submission links to a YouTube video that puts Monopoly strategy to the test by simulating 300 million games. The post drew a small handful of comments, and the linked page itself could not be fetched, so the discussion offers little detail on which tactics came out ahead.
The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games
- delichon
Forty six years ago this was the second thing I ever programmed on a computer. It was a TRS-80 model 3, and initially Quick BASIC was the only software I had for it. My first project was a todo app. The second was a Monopoly simulation that just ran around the board to estimate which squares were landed on most often. It worked, and the high I got from that addicted me and kicked off a coding career. That damn computer should have come with a warning label.
- nielsbot
They don't say what the strategy is in the comments (duh) but I seem to remember a similar study from years ago saying the optimal strategy was to always buy if you can.
Meta, but one rule I was surprised to learn: if someone doesn't buy a property when they land on it, it is immediately auctioned off by the bank.
- tobadzistsini
I thought the best Monopoly strategy was not to play.
- mauvehaus
A couple Thanksgivings ago, I played with a couple of alpha finance types that I'm related to at a distance of several marriages. It's certainly a more interesting game the way they play it, no doubt helped by everyone being amply lubricated and some enthusiastic brotherly backstabbing. Whether it's more fun or not probably depends on exactly how much you care about the outcome. It still took the better part of a couple hours though.
- danjc
It's surprising that a content creator would put this much work into a video and then use an AI narration.