Some Monopoly observations.

I've been playing quite a bit of monopoly( The board game) online. I've been recording the plays as I go, and came across some interesting trends.
In over half the games, a green property was the last one available
Getting the Boardwalk Monopoly will result in a win about 2/3rds of the time.
The most landed on spot is Luxury tax.
Boardwalk is among the least landed spots, despite having two cards that send people there.
I'm not sure when they made the changes, but income tax is now a flat $200, with no 10% option for the poor, and luxury tax is now $100, up for $75 dollars.

On a personal note, in one game I had both light blue( Oriental) and dark blue( Broadway) with hotels and no one else had any Monopoly. Still, the other three players avoided landing on any hotel property for eleven rounds. On the 12th, one player landed on both Boardwalk and Connecticut, and the other two went bankrupt, landing on Park Place. Watching three players avoid my five properties while landing on my three mortgaged properties was frustrating.

A four-player game usually goes about 90-100 minutes. One game lasted two hours and forty minutes, and one of my wins went an hour and four minutes. Five player games run two hours plus.

Approximately how many games do you have notes on?

Boardwalk will be least landed on because despite the cards sending you there are too many ways to get sent somewhere else.

I always read Illinois ave is the most landed on so your rest is interesting.

Income tax a flat thing probably a result of our poor math skills and I think you technically were supposed to declare 10% BEFORE you counted up. That made it a wealth tax not an”income tax” but knowing all that is not going to impress many women.

I always found the orange properties to be the best followed by the green. The green were hard to miss and the orange had the 6/7/9 dice probability coming out of jail and for those that don’t get that learn to play craps.

Income Tax and Luxury Tax were changed when they changed Baltic and Mediterranean to brown, which, apparently, was in 2008

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Approximately how many games do you have notes on?
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Eighty plus four player games. I have another thirty-something five and six-player games that track fairly close. Three player games seem to have a different pattern.

I had an epic game overnight. I landed on St Charles on my first spin. A player landed on Virginia and as it wasn't a future potential monopoly, he sold it to me immediately for $200. My second time around I landed on States and was able to put two houses on each property. From there, it was just a matter of buying only defensively, mortgaging all my new stuff until I had three hotels. The first player to go bankrupt had two brown pieces, and I had previously won and mortgaged NY Avenue. It took a few rounds but I was able to get to four houses on each brown property . The last player landed on NY Avenue while rolling doubles. It left him with $50 and a bunch of mortgaged properties, so he resigned.
One rule this game has is you can buy houses after you roll. I usually play you have to buy them before you spin. This game gives you both options.

This is my favorite version of Monopoly — requires desktop computer to play. You can finish a game in 20 minutes or less. None of those bells and whistles that slow the game. Just good, fast Monopoly!

https://archive.org/details/monopoly_202108

A variant I thought interesting but have not played yet has the bank collecting the rent when the owner is in jail. It would keep players from extending their time in jail late in the game.

Yea, but the REAL question is, if I hand the Get Out of Jail Free Card to the Warden... how long does it take to process???