Mathamatics of Monopoly

If it is true that the most landed on space is St James place, new york avenue, and Tennessee Avenue.
Then the second most landed on space is Oriental, Vermont avenue, and Connecticut avenue because of the advance to go cards in community chest and chance. The advance to boardwalk also puts the roller in a strong position to land on those properties so there are 3 cards give the roller a 40% chance for you to land on one of three properties before getting past them.
The least landed on square is park place because it is exactly 7 squares away from the go to jail square square which is the most frequently rolled number plus there are a lot of advance to go cards in chance and community chest that by pass park place and board walk. The second least landed on square is Mediteranean avenue because when you get an advance to go card from chance you cant land on that square and have only 1/18 chance of landing on Baltic avenue.
railroads, utilities, st Charles place, Illinois avenue, and board walk are all hit more frequently because they all have chance cards. New york gets hit a little bit more because of the go back 3 spaces card.

All I have heard is orange and red properties are the best to build due to their location and the going first is a big advantage(like most games).

I thought the most landed-on space was Illinois Avenue, in no small part because it was 14 spaces from jail.

Oriental, Vermont and Connecticut are NOT the second most landed on property groups. That distinction belongs to the red properties, namely, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois.

http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/monopoly/monopoly.shtml

The least landed on property is not Park Place. Mediterranean and Baltic are both landed on less often. (But it's close.)

And yes, Illinois is the most frequently landed on (property) square (after the "Jail" square) for two reasons. One, there is a card directing the player to that square and two, because of its location to the JAIL square, which is landed on the most.

And yes, naturally all of the squares that have Chance or Community Chest cards directing the player to that square will be landed on more frequently than what would otherwise be the case.

If you haven't seen the above link, it sounds like it will keep you entertained for hours.

Many years ago I wrote a simulator to determine the frequency of each square being landed on, and with minor differences in percentages, my results agreed with the above links results.

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