Monopoly

I was recently playing Monopoly and discovered that I'm not very good at it. My trading offer ended very badly for me - and caused the other player to win!! I only owned 3 properties in the end with 2 being Boardwalk & Park Place plus a railroad. You'd think I'd be able to get some $$ from those, wouldn't you?

I searched online, and I think I know the reason that I lost. It was because of my token: the battleship. There is a token personality quiz to determine what type of player you are and searching under the battleship I learned that I was an aggresive player. I was determined to get Boardwalk & Park Place not thinking about the rest of the board in play. Maybe aggression wasn't the way to go.

The winner was the shoe. It's personality is that the scruffiness of the shoe masks a player whose property dealing is methodical and focused. It definitely was!! It took us so much time to make any little trade that we ended up putting in more than what it was worth in the long haul.

The runner-up was the cannon. That personality is to place as much emphasis on defensive strategy as they do in attacks. I would land on the cannon's property and lose most of my money to roll (after doubles, of course) and land on the shoe's property to go bankrupt. Yippee!!

Third place was the money bag, which isn't in the old-fashioned Monopoly games but in the newer edition ones. I think that choice may just have been doomed from the start. I almost knocked him out, but my properties were mortgaged at the time, which meant that I got to be bankrupt first.

Next time, I don't think we'll be playing Monopoly until I learn a better strategy - or atleast have ladyluck on my side.