Alright, I think I just did the ultimate Monopoly Tycoon challenge. For those of you who don't know the game, you basically get several thousand dollars to build up an empire with, creating businesses and loaning property tiles (it's more fun than it sounds). I just played on hard on a completely blank map with $5000 starting money (the minimal possible).

Now, take a moment and note that starting money, $5000. I just finished the game with an empire value of $100,000 and making over $10,000 per day. However, that is not the impressive part. There were six of us playing (myself vs 5 hard computers). I won by elminating every competitor, bankrupting them, until I was the only survivor left (two days ending in the red loses the game by bankruptcy). I simply made my own mini-empire that brought in about 2500-5000 per day and then set out on my opponents, first buying out their good properties and setting up competitors for their weaker businesses. Then, for the finishing blow, I would get them into a loan that they would be unable to pay back in the next two days. And, one by one, they fell.

Now, aren't you glad that we live in a government that stops such direct monopolizing?