Experiment to see how hard game is...

[Didz]

You. Own a book. About Monopoly strategies.

Yep! its actually very interesting with lots of statistical analysis of average returns on investment for various properties and sets. Plus, a lot of information on its history and variations to the rules. There is even information of special historical games and monopoly events, such as the exhibition game played with and for real money which was held in the Manhattan Savings Bank in November 1973. The players were:

Brain Nuttall - National Monopoly Champion of Great Britain
Lee Bayrd - Monopoly Champion of Western America
Don Lifton - USMA Champion of the Midwest Regional Mens Invitiational Monopoly Tournament.
and
Russell Smith - Chairman of the Manhatton Savings Bank, who was playing Monopoly for the first time and acted as Banker.

The game actually ran out of money and so the bank had to lend them some, but in the end it had to be abandoned after 90 minutes with no clear winner and all funds were returned.

Incidently, the longest recorded monopoly game was played continuously for 41 nights and 42 days. The largest outdoor game was played over an area of 550' x 470' at Juniata Colege Huntingdon Pennsylvania, using real streets. The largest indoor game was played on a board 52' x 52' , the winner was Lem Barney of the Detriot Lions football team.

I have actually owned two copies of computer monopoly, one for the Commodore 64 and one for the PC, neither of which are currently installed as the game is now available as a DVD game.