How to Win Monopoly Deal
The definitive strategy guide, built from more than thirty million simulated games under the official rules. Every rule in the book has a number behind it. Most of what the forums tell you loses.
The book
Fifteen short chapters: the rules exactly, where the game came from, what thirty million games taught us, the one big idea and three adjustments, then a chapter per decision you face, playbooks for two players versus a full table and for leading, level, or behind, ten popular beliefs that lose, and twenty puzzles. A code at the end of every chapter leads here.
Paperback · $17.99
5.5 × 8.5 inches, 189 pages, cream paper. The edition with the codes printed at the end of every chapter.
Hardcover · $29.99
Same book, case laminate. The one to give to the person who always wins.
Kindle · $7.99
Same book, same puzzles, every chapter link live instead of printed as a code.
All three editions, the full contents and how it was built →
Daily puzzle
One real table position a day. Pick your play; the solver has already played every option out to the end of the game hundreds of times and grades your answer with its win chance.
Find the best play
Twelve graded four-player positions to start, with more every day once the site is live.
Puzzle archive
Every puzzle ever posted, filterable by player count, standing, and the card it turns on.
Live table
Watch games unfold on a table view: your hand nearest you, sets stacked the way they sit on a real table, and win chances for every seat, either from what the table can see or with every hand revealed, broadcast style.
Replays
Recorded games with the evolved strategy in your seat, step by step, with win chances.
Spectate live games
Open any room link to watch, with broadcast odds at every turn end.
Your coach
Describe your table in plain words and the coach ranks your plays and names the chapter rule the best one follows. It answers rules questions out of Hasbro's 2024 sheet, says plainly which four questions Hasbro has never settled, and gives every strategy number with its player count and its margin. It will not invent a number.
Position solver
Lay out any situation and get win chances per play. The same engine grades the puzzles. The coach reasons from the book's measured rules; the solver itself is next.
The research
An exact rules engine for 2 to 5 players, cross-checked against an independent engine; every strategy claim from Reddit, BoardGameGeek, and the strategy sites tested at 20,000 games a cell; a strategy evolved over millions of cloud games; and a search agent that shows where the remaining edge lives.
| Finding | Effect |
|---|---|
| First player's edge in a two-player game (equal players) | 57.3% |
| "Never complete a set until you can win" (2p / 4p) | −14.1 / −9.7 |
| Bank to a $10 floor before laying property (4p) | −11.9 |
| Free wild flips before charging rent (4p) | +3.0 |
| Aim rent at the smallest bank that holds property (4p) | +3.2 |
| One card left with a play remaining: dump it, any card | +10 when it arises |
| Evolved strategy vs folk play (2p / 5p) | 66.9% / 34.4% |
| A player making legal moves at random (4p) | 0.34% |
Play online
Official rules enforced by the engine, so nobody argues. Fill seats with friends or with opponents from the research: the folk player, the evolved strategy, the all-in player, the hoarder, the public bots, or the cheat bot that reads every hand and still loses.
Play against the bot, or your friends
Two to five seats, any mix of humans and the evolved strategy, table view with animated plays. Create a room, send the link.
Pro table
Video and voice per seat, chat, names. Home of No Limit Deal, the betting variant, with play chips.
Post-game review
Every game logged; the solver shows the turn where your odds dropped and what would have held them.
Deal World Championship
The first ever, unofficial. Online qualifiers played as duplicate deals: every table gets the identical shuffle in the same seat order, then rotates, so the standings measure how you played the same cards as everyone else. A live final with the broadcast table and every hand shown to the audience.
Leave your name to hear when qualifiers open, and tell us what else you'd play.
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