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Win at Monopoly!

We've all been involved in late-night Monopoly sessions that threaten to drag on till the last weary capitalist forks over that final hotel. Now with Probabilities in the Game of Monopoly, you can harness the power of probability to optimize your economic power and oust those laggards from the game before dawn breaks. The site presents precisely-calculated probabilities for a host of events in the popular board game: expected income per roll for each property and mortgage payback and loss times, to name just two. The point of all this? "It should be possible," writes the site's proprietor, "to add up all of the expected income values for all of the properties in a partially completed game and get an estimate of who is likely to win." Doesn't that take all the fun out of it, you ask? Whoever said Monopoly was supposed to be fun?

Fri, 03 Dec 1999 04:29:44 -0800