Winning Monopoly: A Complete Guide to Property Accumulation, Cash Flow Strategy, and Negotiating Techniques When Playing the Best-Selling Board Game Paperback – January 1, 1987

The book is a marvelous assemblage of sound Monopoly advice, much of it developed through computer simulations. The suggestion to own the Railroads and Utilities early in the game as cash cows goes against the commonly accepted wisdom found in other books. Yet it works as rent from those properties steadily build one’s own assets while depleting those of opponents. Then in the endgame when colored sets and houses are needed to bankrupt opponents, I trade those cash cows to those who hated paying rent for them.I first read this book about twenty years ago at my local library, and knew it would always be there for reference. I recently moved to another town, and am glad to now have a copy at home.

This book is the ultimate strategy guide. Kaz had a personal computer play hundreds of thousands of game of Monopoly and analyzed them. The book is about what a saw and how to use this to win. There is a great amount of tips in this book. Mr. Darzinskis goes into extensive detail. This book is designed for the die-hard Monopoly fanatic.

The books main strategies are actually against the rules of Monopoly, making the book not very useful. It does have statistics on which properties are the most landed on, but any monopoly book will have that. You would be better off buying the "monopoly companion".

Not only does this book offer hidden advice behind the game of monopoly, it involves stratagies that exist outside of the game as well i.e. reading people, psychology, etc) to improve the odds of winning. Using these fun ideas is a pleasure!