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> When playing Monopoly, spend all you have to buy, barter, or trade for the Orange properties. Don’t bother with Utilities. This one struck me as being partic
by elric 6y ago
> When playing Monopoly, spend all you have to buy, barter, or trade for the Orange properties. Don’t bother with Utilities.
This one struck me as being particularly random, even in a list of pretty random items. Can anyone with Monopoly mojo expand on this?
- compiler-guy 6y agohttps://monopoly.fandom.com/wiki/Orange_Color_Group_Properties https://monopoly.fandom.com/wiki/Orange_Color_Group_Properti... Statistically, the Orange property set is one of the most frequented sets in the game due to the approximately 37% chance of landing on one upon the first turn after leaving jail; the most visited space on the board. In combination with a relatively cheap development cost, the Orange property set can be valuable to own.
- dbcurtis 6y agoWay back when, my DiffEq prof did a Markov chain model to compute the probability of visiting each space on a Monopoly board. It shows exactly what you state. It's actually kind of a fun problem to think about. Sort of an early Markov-chain-101 homework-question-sized problem. The state transitions to Jail, and the resulting state transitions out of Jail, put a strong bias on visiting Orange. And then, yes, the development costs on that side of the board make the ROI attractive.