Monopoly Deal Property Protection Strategies


Comprehensive list of Winning Monopoly Deal Property Related Strategies

By Two Game Enthusiasts

Protect Your Property…

This Monopoly Deal Strategy section has a list of strategies related to protecting your full sets and valuable properties. These strategies range from knowing the best time to move your property around on the table to the knowing the best time to complete a set on the table. These strategies do not break any of the official Monopoly Deal Rules and have been used by us and other monopoly deal players to successfully win.

Strategy:Play it Close to the Cuff – Wait to Complete Your Property Sets

Try to avoid creating full sets for as long as possible unless you have at least one Just Say No card. Even with a Just Say No card your full set isn’t 100% safe.


Strategy Examples:Say you have a brown, two green, and two red properties on the table. Next turn you pick up the second brown and the third red properties. At this point you could lay them down, completing two full sets but that would mean you have two full sets sitting on the table making you a target for anyone with a Deal Breaker. It’s better to hold the last brown and last red property cards in your hand until you can pick up the last green card, then you can lay down three cards and win the game in one turn.

Strategy:Learn From Voltron – Keep your Properties Separated Until the Winning Moment

Always try to keep full sets broken up on your table. This prevents your opponents from being able to use Deal Breaker against you but leaves you the flexibility to combine them all into full sets next turn without using one of your three plays. The best full sets to acquire are those where one of the cards making up the full set is a dual color wild property cards. With these sets you can keep the dual color wild property card separate on the table with the other color up and then combine them when needed. Advancement to this play is to hide the wild property card with one other property so that your opponents can’t tell it completes your set.Check out the Monopoly Deal Rules and FAQ website to learn more about what counts as a move and how properties can be combined and seperated during your a players turn.


Strategy Examples:Say you have a Deal Breaker and two light blue properties in your hand and on the table you have a yellow property and a light blue. On your turn you pick up a yellow property, and a red and yellow dual wildcard property. The best strategy might be to lay down one light blue property (making two light blue properties on the table – one shy of a full set), one yellow (making two yellows together on the table – one shy of a full set), and the red and yellow dual wildcard property with the Red side up (making it a single red property). Now you have no full sets so anyone with the other Deal Breaker can’t take your cards but next turn you can combine the yellows and red/yellow dual wild card to make a full set, lay down the light blue card to make a full set, and play the Deal Breaker to steal a full set and you’ve won.


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Strategy:Build Your Bank

Always try to build the Bank before developing property. One of the fundamental strategies to playing and winning the game is to develop a Bank before laying down property. Property laid without a Bank is property lost to birthdays, Rent, and other charges.


Strategy:Save the Best Properties for Last – Show your Worst First

Try to lay down the least valuable properties first. These are properties that you may not mind loosing and opponents may not want to acquire. Properties are money so low value properties work to build the Bank and create a cushion between your opponents and your valuable properties


Strategy:Go On Offense with your Just Say No Card

A Just Say No can negate a Just Say No. Just Say No cards aren’t just defensive cards but can be offensive cards as well. One huge advantage to holding a Just Say No card is that paired with a Deal Breaker it can negate any defensive play your opponent has against you taking their full set (Unless in the rare occasion they have two Just Say No cards).Check out the Monopoly Deal Rules and FAQ website to learn more about how the Deal Breaker and Just Say No cards can be played.


Strategy Examples:You play a Deal Breaker and your opponent uses their Just Say No card, at that point you can negate their Just Say No by playing your own and still take their full set.


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Strategy:Don’t Play Your Multi-Colored Property Wild Card too Soon – You Could Lose it!

Avoid playing multi multi-color property wild cards unless you are playing as part of a full set. The multi multi-color property wild cards are one of the most valuable cards in the deck and can be take when not part of a full set using a Sly Deal or Force Deal card. On the flip side, multi multi-color property wildcards cannot be taken as payment for Rent so if all the Sly Deal and Force Deal cards (total of six) have been played it’s safe to lay the multi-color property wildcards.Check out the Monopoly Deal Rules and FAQ website to learn more about how wild cards are handled in the game.


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