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by davoomac on April 27th, 2006

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Are the least cost effective properties the green ones?

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  • by chipsndip on November 17th, 2006

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    It depends on where in the game you are... There are some great statistical tables at : http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/monopoly/monopoly.shtml

    One of the tables there includes "Expected Number of Opponent Rolls to Recoup Incremental Cost (assuming a Short Jail Stay)" - this is a statistical analysis of how many turns it will take to pay for the property itself plus any improvements. This might be a way to determine "least cost effective" properties.

    From this list, without any improvements, the top 5 least cost effective are (in the standard American version) the purple and light blue properties. Meditteranean Avenue ranks as worst with 1407 rolls needed to break even on the cost!

    Now, if you look at the list of properties with the cost of adding hotels, the list changes somewhat. The top 5 in that column are :
    Park Place (dark blue) : 45.73 rolls
    North Carolina (dark green) : 43.53 rolls
    Pacific Avenue (dark green) : 42.68 rolls
    Pennsylvania Avenue (dark green) : 39.99 rolls
    States Avenue (light purple) : 33.72 rolls

    From this information, we see that the dark green take the longest to make up the money spent to fully upgrade them, so unless they can be upgraded early in the game, they probably are the least cost effective properties.

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    • thanks for the answer to my question. very useful!

      davoomac

      by davoomac on November 17th, 2006

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