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From: eli@cvl.UUCP (Eli Liang)
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Subject: Re: 1000 Ways to Win Monopoly Games
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 11:21:20 EDT
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> Has anyone else seen the book "100 Ways to Win Monopoly Games"?
> My brother has a 10 year old copy.  I used to think Monopoly
> was 90% luck -- now I think it is only about 5% luck, 80%
> skill, and 15% finding mature opponents (that is, opponents who
> won't give up easily).  I only get to play about once every year
> or two (only a 4 player game counts as a game), but I haven't
> lost since I read that book.
> 
> It would be great to play monopoly by e-mail, but I think
> making deals might take two or three months.  Does anybody want
> to give it a try anyway?
> 
> Bill Stoll, ..!whuxlm!wws

Sure would.  I'm almost ashamed to admit it but Monopoly is still one of my
favorite board games.  Sounds like I have to find a copy of that book.  I've
have a book on Monopoly and have done some statistical analysis and was
working on a Monopoly "adviser" (program) for a while but put it aside to
move onto other things.  If anyone would like to discuss some of the things
that came out of my mathematical analysis of the game, I'd be happy to dig up
the results of my investigations.  They must be lying around somewhere...
-eli
p.s. Anyone out there interested in the game of Risk?
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