How to win at Monopoly – British champion shares top advice on winning the board game this Christmas
With these tips you'll be rolling in those orange and pink notes before you know it
LISTEN carefully over the next few days and you'll heard the sound of thousands of board games being dusted off for their annual outing.
Christmas is nearly here, which means families up and down the country will be sitting down to a game of Monopoly.... and it'll probably get heated.
We've already told you all the ways you've probably been playing the game wrong, so now it's time for some pro tips.
Natalie Fitzsimons is the UK Monopoly champion and her main piece of advice is to snap up the orange properties if you can.
Those are Vine Street, Marlborough Street and Bow Street, and according to Natalie they're important because they're the ones most people land on.
Once players have got hold of a property set, most will start loading it up with houses and hotels. They're how you make the big money when an opponent lands on one after all.
It's not the route truly savvy people go down though.
Better is to mortgage them, then use the money you've got from the bank to splash on more property.
Depending on how sneaky you are, there's another house-related tip.
As the game had just a fixed number of houses, you could try to snap them all up early on. Do that and it means no one else will be able to buy any.
Another unlucky spot of advice is to try your best to go to jail.
A lot of people think you can't collect rents when you're in there, but that's not actually true.
It means you can make money from your properties, but you also don't lose cash because you won't be landing on another else's.
If things get a little heated around the board thanks to these tips don't worry, you can always give the dedicated Monopoly hotline a ring.
It's been created to try to easy board game bust-ups over the festive season.