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We all know of the subs like "You Should Know," but what something you SHOULDN'T know? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How to play Scrabble competitively.

Once you know, you can't play against normal people anymore, they'll hate it and, if it happens often enough, you. You can only play against other Scrabble bastards, and you'll hate that and, very quickly, them.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Similar to monopoly

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    Monopoly isn’t an awful game if you actually play by the rules. It’s not great, but it’s not awful either. But most people don’t know all the rules, make up a bunch of stupid house rules, etc… And as a result, the game drags on for hours even after it’s clear who the winner will be. In reality, playing by the rules has each game lasting like 20-45 minutes.

    For example, most people know that when a player lands on an unowned square, they get the option to buy it. Straightforward, right? But most people don’t realize that if that original player turns it down, it goes to auction. The players can submit bids to purchase the square, and they can start far below market value. Meaning that all of the squares should get bought relatively quickly, instead of taking like ten rounds. There is actually a strategy to refuse to buy a square, to intentionally send the property to bid, just so you can then potentially buy the properly below market value. Basically, Player A lands on a square. Player A refuses to buy the square at the market price of $1000. Player A then wins the bid at $800. Player A effectively got a $200 discount, simply by sending the property to auction.

    Also, the bank can’t go bankrupt.

    You can run out of houses to build. Know how you can upgrade four houses to a hotel? And the game only has 32 houses? The hotel increases the square’s rent, but returns the houses to the available pot. It’s actually a perfectly valid strategy to upgrade all of your properties to four houses, and then refuse to upgrade any of them to hotels. Since the game only has 32 houses, you can use ~7 properties to effectively lock out any hotels from being built. And since nobody can build any hotels while you’re sitting on all of the houses, your 4-house properties are effectively the most expensive in the game simply because nobody can upgrade their properties while you’re hoarding all the building materials.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)
    1. You can upgrade straight to hotels you don’t need to get houses before upgrading to hotels it’s just that no one has the capital to do that.
    2. The original rules had a second phase to the game that replayed the game with the capitalism taken out using socialism instead, it was created by a school teacher as a way to showcase the dangers of capitalism. When Mattel bought stole the game from the original creator, they removed the second phase keeping only the capitalism phase.
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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)
    1. No, you can’t. The rules state that you need to upgrade all of your properties in a given color at the same rate. For instance, if one of your green properties has two houses while the rest have three, you have to upgrade the lowest one before you upgrade the rest. Additionally, the rules specifically state that you must have four houses before upgrading to a hotel. Your post is a great example of one of the bad house rules I originally mentioned.
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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I learned how to play a perfect game of Monopoly just so I could beat my family and friends so that they stopped asking me to play Monopoly. Even before learning the trick I hated that game

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    If you play by only the official rules it's not supposed to be fun. It's supposed to teach how much monopolies under capatalism are horrible for everyone else.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    In Practice: "Actually, the rules state the property goes to auction if you don't buy it. Also, money doesn't go in the middle for Free Parking. And if there aren't enough houses then no one can build more."

    In Reality: "Well we've never played like that before, so we're not going to change it. Stop being mean to your brother and just use something else for the extra houses."

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