How To Play Monopoly Correctly! - A Full Tutorial 

Understood, thank you very much for this tutorial and now I finally know how to play monopoly

Hi Rodney, thanks for your great content as always. One question I have that I don't think the video covered: can I mortgage a property if I still have 1 house on another property of the same set? My guess is no, since I can't buy houses if any properties are mortgaged, but it wasn't explicit in the video. Thanks again, great stuff!

@@Gifts42 You are right, to mortgage any property from a color set, you must first sell off all buildings on all properties of that set.

About mortgages, do you collect the mortgage price once when you decide to mortgage a property, or a few times throughout the game?

@@lucawiebe4598 Once a property is mortgaged, that specific property can't be mortgaged again, unless you pay that mortgage off, then you flip it back over, and then you can mortgage it again.

and thats why most people actually dont know how to play Monopoly...

@@thankukorea, and why the game goes on for hours and hours. If played by the rules most games by an average player will be lucky to last 30 minutes before there is a declared winner.

tvdavis ..yep. That’s me 😂

Lmaooo so true but I acc watched the whole thing 🥴😂

In theory yes, but U very VERY seldom U get to this kind of dominant situation - and if U do, U can just as well build the hotels, because U are winning anyway.

I was thinking The same... Great move, Ron

It's actually a brilliant move by Rodney how to reach the masses and teach a classic game. Which may gain viewers and more attention, and also be an April Fool's Joke for us into the hobby.

I was the guy who first played Monopoly and then accidentally dicovered a larger wonderland of board gaming.

@@jackchen129im in your same boat 😂 whats some game boards you advice to play with friends??

So glad it was helpful Ashvarya!

First off, welcome! Glad to have you here, and sorry if some of the comments are a bit confusing. Second of all, this is a legitimate tutorial video for Monopoly, and that's what it's meant to be. Thanks for the kind words about it. The main reason for many of the comments is that I typically cover board games that you are more likely to find in a hobby store dedicated to board games. Monopoly and other games (like Risk, Trouble and Candy Land) are usually seen as mass market games sold in mass market stores. However, the hobby of board games has grown a lot over the past decade, with the variety and depth of theme and styles of play evolving at an amazing speed. Over 3,000 DIFFERENT board games release a year now, and it's these other types of non mass-market games that I typically cover. I hope you check a few out, you might really enjoy them. Could I suggest Carcassonne and Ticket to Ride to start? Or if you like the idea of a co-operative game (where players work together), perhaps Pandemic? These games are also getting more popular, so you might find them in your mass-market stores too! People who play some of these newer games I'm mentioning, may end up looking down on mass market games. It's not entirely with mean-spirited intentions at heart. There are some common criticisms of mass market games. Games like Monopoly rely a lot on luck, taking the choices away from the player. You roll the dice and you move where the dice take you. Modern games tend to give the players more choice - instead of rolling the dice, you decide where you want to go. Older games, like Monopoly, tended to have things like "player elimination" where a player could be kicked out of the game before it's over. Modern games frown on that. We don't like to have experiences where some people get to keep playing and having fun, while others are sitting on the sidelines. That said, just because some people may not like older games as much any more, that doesn't mean they don't have value. Lots of people still enjoy these games today... and they should. "Fun" is not something that someone else gets to tell another person how to have. If you play Monopoly and enjoy it, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Unfortunately, like any members of a niche hobby - sometimes the biggest supporters of it can get a "little snooty" about the games they left behind in pursuit of newer options. In part, that's why I released this on April 1st. I wanted to create a proper tutorial for Monopoly, a game that is quite frequently played wrong, but I also needed to give some of my core audience an excuse not to fill the comments with "this game is trash, why would you ever cover it?". For that portion of my audience, they now have an excuse: "ah, it's an April Fools joke!" - for everyone else, and for folks like you, you hopefully get to enjoy a well presented tutorial about a classic game that introduced many of us to the hobby we now enjoy. I hoped to have a little fun with my core audience who wouldn't expect a video like this (for reasons I appreciate), but I also wanted to do a legit tutorial for a classic game. The other hope I have, is that people who aren't aware of the wonderfully diverse world of board gaming today, may discover it, by finding this video here and then checking out some of the other ones on this channel. I hope you have a look around - happy gaming!

@@WatchItPlayed Wow! Thank you very much for this allanswering answer! I will check out your other videos as I don't really like Monopoly for the reasons you mentioned above. I recently played a lot of new games one of which was Small World (lemme check if you feature it in your videos...yes you do :) ). I have never enjoyed a game on the first evening of playing as much as Small World. I am looking forward to watching your video on the game. Keep up the good work.

Yeah, as Rodney said the "joke" is that it's an unexpected game on this channel and many of us expected a bait and switch with something else in the video, but Rodney one upped us by doing one of his regular rules videos like he does for all other games. So it's not really a joke, just unexpected.

Try Architects of the West Kingdom, Century Spice Road, Azul, Sagrada, Blood Rage, Photosynthesis. There are a lot I could suggest. Lol

@@WatchItPlayed What an amazing reply

Branden Sprenger This had to be good practice for him, as seriously as he took this April Fool’s joke.

The real April Fool's joke is that everyone you know has been teaching you wrong. This joke has been going on for too many decades.

@@KesSharann ah, a multi-generational, out of season, April Fool's joke

I'm just always happy to be sharing games :)

@@WatchItPlayed omg you came to this comment after 5 years!

As good of a video this is, you could also just look up the rulebook- but a video can be more easily understandable sometimes :)

Have a great time on your next play!

Thank you kindly Saurav!

Look at the posting date

@@edumelara I'm aware

It works as an April Fool's joke, and I'm sure it's intended that way. The clever bit is it's also a thorough explanation of the rules of how to play Monopoly with the proper rules. It avoids the negative reaction people would have to him doing a video on Monopoly any other day, works as a joke, and it serves as a real rules explanation. Bravo to him for pulling that off!

@@Retro6502 i'm just playing along with the Dice Tower and Watch it Played "rivalry."

Retro, you understood the intentions and timing of this video precisely.

This is a terrifying new world and I’m not sure if I want to live in it anymore.

That’s what makes it so amazing. He’s fully committed. “Rolling the included dice, rerolling any ties.”

The joke is that he treated it like any other game (even though most people already know how to play it, and most board gamers despise it.)

@@Sheriff_K honestly outside of official board game tournaments I have never met anybody in my entire 40 years of living new how to play Monopoly the right way. It's annoying that we are all taught to play it the wrong way which is why we all hate it. It actually is a pretty decent auction game if you play it the right way

Sheriff K most people play it wrong though, everyone just thinks they know the rules.

SogekiDan haha yes, that was my favorite part!

Totally should have pulled out Canadian Tire money from his wallet though xD

😂😂😂

Agree. Her patented 'Landlord's Game' seems to be a clear precursor to Monopoly, and Parker's Bros must have thought the same or they wouldn't have paid her for her patent in 1934. Darrow definitely made some changes and refined the game, but it's hard to know to what extent, since he was taught some version of the game by players in the early 1930s, and no record of that version survives. So a joint credit for the game is the fairest solution.

@@kascally Darrow was not a game designer. He simply made his own sets and sold them. He did not change or influence any of the game’s design aspects aside from the colors used (which were just the cheapest colors of paint he could find) and the artwork.

Yeah, really! I used to always pick the dog, but not anymore.

I know right?

Ross, is that you?

I think that was the joke. Everyone watched it completely through waiting... Waiting... WAITING....

That's not a high bar...

RIGHT??? me too. i actually found it interesting. considering that monopoly is a game we probably ALL played as a kid. Now we know the actual rules.

I’ve fought my whole family to stop playing of the house rules. I don’t enjoy playing this as much as I do other games but I’ll play it with family. It’s funny being one of the few people who actually know how to play.

@@canaboost Waiting for.... THE BOX FLIP! (17:22)

We are all already home.

@@nightmaregiraffe2671 Underrated comment.

My Cat's Breath Smells Like Cat Food don’t be snooty. Makes people like you less, and eventually you’ll be soloing unsoloable games while you cry and cry all alone.

Also didn't pull it out of his shelf either XD

I didn’t catch that. Amazing.

A good April Fool's joke should always include a tell.

He should've just casually tossed it in the trash

Thanks Giancarlo!

Glad to be able to help out. Have fun playing!

All the best with your assignment!

So glad you liked it - thanks Juno!

Glad it helped Brian!

Mee to

Very kind of you to say Brian - glad you enjoyed!

I'm here for those levels of details!

I used to think that the "board flip" was a joke. Nope. My sister actually flipped the board when she started to lose at "Cheater's Edition."

Probably because Rodney is great at making games look good.

@@Urtho Part of the hate of Monopoly is that people have grown up playing it wrong so it drags on for hours. The 2 biggest culprits are - 1 - ignoring the fact that you can buy property you dont land on through bidding 2 - putting money menat for the bank in the middle and giving that to people who land on free parking

So nice to know this was helpful with your current build project - sounds awesome!

Thank you!

Thanks so much for the kind words on the video :)

I don't know, it's a pretty small indie company..

I hope it has expansions, solo-mode, and a deluxe version! I'm going all-in!

So very nice of you to say Jonathan - thanks for the kind words!

Very happy I could assist :)

Yes.

This was one of my earliest gaming experiences too!

Glad you found this helpful - have fun playing!

Mike Price walmart

the old one is from 1930 i think, so try fleemarkets. but it reprinted in ALOT of other themes :) now in the end it uses credidcards LOL

Bought mines from Amazon

I just got one from target yesterday

@@brad2718 boo

Ah, thanks so much Sharon!

Just multiple everything by 2.2 and your conversions are complete...

Thank you Jason!

@@WatchItPlayed I just really hate those people who don't know how to play this game incorrectly. Monopoly is only fun when played according to the instructions!

Very glad to have been able to help!

So glad it was helpful!

Very kind of you to say!

April fools. The fake video you expected was actually a real tutorial!

@@iandakariann You are right! Well played Rodney, well played.

Thanks very much!

Way to go :)

I started to "thumbs up" this post and then realized someone might actually take me seriously. So I'll just say, "Your comment brought me a smile and a laugh. Thank you."

@@annereynolds7930 I am expecting so much shade for saying it, but it is April 1st, so harmless fun.

So glad it helped Lori - have fun playing!