<i>The player who wins is usually the one who buys a lot of lands early.</i><p>That&#x27;s testable. Simulate a few tens of thousands of games based on some criteria (players always buy properties they land on if they can afford them, players will mortgage their portfolio to buy properties if it blocks another player, etc) and see if the person winning on round <i>n</i> where <i>n</i> is an early round is the same as the person who&#x27;s winning at the end of the game. It certainly sounds like it&#x27;s true. It&#x27;d be interesting to see how early you can abandon a game and still know who&#x27;d have won.