Railroads

Throughout your monopoly experience you might encounter spaces called railroads and utilities. Railroads and utilities never turn the tide of the game and they will very rarely win the game but it may...

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DIXON GILLETTE: All right, to set up a single-player game, we'll simply select the Single Player button. And at the top left here, you can see a couple of arrows. Now, these arrows will allow...

DIXON GILLETTE: Okay. So now, it's time to talk about how to buy and sell stock, which is actually how you're going to either win or lose the game. Now, the main way to buy and sell...

DIXON GILLETTE: All right, so as you can see here, we are at our main game map. And one of the more important things that you're going to need to know is how to get around your game map. So...

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DIXON GILLETTE: In three, two, one. Okay. Now, we're going to talk about laying parallel track and building switches. Most of the time, you're going to need to build parallel track...

DIXON GILLETTE: Now, over here on the right is our route cue, and you can see that our first stop is Yuma and it begins--it picks up food. It goes to Eloy where it drops the food off and picks up...

DIXON GILLETTE: All right. To begin laying single track, you're going to want to start out at your city that you are over. Now, one thing that's important to keep in mind when laying...

DIXON GILLETTE: Okay. So the next thing that we're going to get into talking about is building depots and annexes. Now, as we said before, we have to bring our track to the green circle in...