The angry Monopoly kid who went viral for giving his family the middle finger is back. Watch below:
Nothing can cause arguments in a family household quicker than a game of Monopoly, as I'm sure many will have witnessed over the past week.
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When playing the boardgame, it really is an emotional rollercoaster, as the clip above perfectly encapsulates.
It shows a young boy with glasses having an absolute meltdown after his family tell him that he has to stay in jail.
"No I'm getting angry with all of you, don't film me," he shouts while famously pulling out the middle finger.
Shouting and screaming at his relatives, his epic strop went viral and now five years after the iconic clip, TikToker Ethan Smith shared an update of what the young lad looks like now.
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The clip - uploaded on Christmas Day - was captioned: "Anyone remember the Monopoly kid?
"He's my brother, and this is him now."
One person commented: "Most insane Monopoly player."
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Another joked: "I always shout 'GO TO JAY-ULL' when someone lands on the jail spot."
Someone else thought: "Should redo it with everyone."
However, Smith revealed: "It's banned in our house now," which is pretty understandable.
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But, if you're desperate for the bragging rights by smashing your family at Monopoly, it turns out that there's a mathematically-proven hack to winning.
Writing to Deadspin, a Monopoly maths master said: “I study math in college and actually did a project on this and there have been numerous studies to predict the best strategies in Monopoly.
“Because it is all based on random chance, the exact probabilities can be determined by use of a Markov Chain.
“The ‘Go to Jail’ square acts as a kind of sink, depriving the spaces after it of opportunities to be landed on, where as the ‘Jail’ square acts as a source and allows spaces after it to get landed on more frequently.
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“I have attached an exact probability distribution for your enjoyment.
“As you can see the Orange spaces have some of the highest probabilities.”
The writer continued: “The strategy does not just end there, though.
“If you take into account the money you put in, the money you get, and the probability of landing on that square, you can determine the Expected Return of that monopoly.
“The Orange monopolies still do very well in Expected Return and a player can expect to break even in the shortest amount of turns with these properties, so Orange is a very safe and good strategy.
“However, the Green properties actually yield the greatest Expected Return, but this is a much riskier move as the game must go on for a long time in order to see those investments pay off.
“So the choice is yours.
“Try to end the game quickly using the Orange monopolies, or humiliate your opponents by having them mortgage their kids to pay off rent at Green.
“And no, women are not impressed/amused/interested when I tell them this.”
Topics: Monopoly
Anish Vij