Much more skill in stratego than monopoly

[Michael Davis]

Well on a session-by-session basis there's more skill in Monopoly than poker. In fact, I suspect Monopoly has a larger skill factor than poker though it's easier to learn the skills and anybody can get there. Still, try playing heads up Monopoly with regular rules, a good player will beat a bad player 80% of the time.

-Michael

[Jordan Olsommer]

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Chess is a game of skill. When I was a kid, there was this dude named Fisher. He pretty much beat everyone.

Yahtzee, on the other hand, is heavily luck dependent. You have to roll dice randomly and have them come up in certain ways. Winning is just a matter of good dice rolls.

EDIT: Also... the sky is blue. Stuff falls down. Things get old and die.

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I don't know the exact rules of Yahtzee, but if I remember the basics correctly, it's vaguely similar to five-card draw except with no betting (i.e. the skill factor comes in knowing which categories to go for and which dice to keep and which to reroll, etc.)

FWIW, I would bet heavily on the fact that Yahtzee, while "heavily luck-dependent", can still be a "beatable" game. Of course, my only evidence for this is having heard Gus Hansen's saying that before he was a backgammon pro, he used to earn his living by playing some Danish Yahtzee game for money [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

In any event, please don't make the mistake of "dice involved = ALL LUCK!". You can prove otherwise rather easily. For example, here's a new game I just made up called "Chesszee": you start by having both players roll a die, and the person to roll the highest number gets to play white in the game of chess that follows. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[MRBAA]

Yes Michael, a "good" monopoly player will beat a "bad" one most times. But it is relatively easy to be "good" at Monopoly -- there's just not that much to know. In the same way, a "good" dice player, who knows which rolls are most probable, will beat a "bad" one who bets on double ones or boxcars, too.