So, what's next for Myers and his son? They'll try to figure out how to play the shortest game of Risk, which he predicts will be more difficult. In an interview that will air on All Things Considered today, Myers said he is confident they've figured it out. Statistically speaking, it would happen 'once every 253,899,891,671,040 games,' Josh Whitford, an assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University, says.įor a long time, Myers and his son have tried to figure out how to shorten length of time it takes to play Monopoly, to refute critics who complain the Hasbro (nee Parker Brothers) board game is a waste of time.
So, what is the statistical probability of that particular game happening? 'And the other one ends up drawing a Chance card that sends them to Boardwalk, and they don't have enough money to pay the rent with three houses, and the game is over.' 'One player moves around the board very quickly, to buy Boardwalk and Park Place, and places houses on them,' Myers explained. (You can read the entire play-by-play after the jump, originally posted on Scatterplot.) Myers, a professor of sociology at Notre Dame University, told NPR's Robert Siegel. The shortest possible game of Monopoly requires only four turns, nine rolls of the dice, and twenty-one seconds, Daniel J.
