Winning at board games is often determined by identifying and controlling the mo

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Winning at board games is often determined by identifying and controlling the most valuable locations on the board. The game board in Figure l represents a scaled down version of the popular board game Monopoly. The board contains eight tiles. Four of these tiles are property tiles indicated by the four colors: Green, Yellow, Red, and Blue. When a player lands on a property tile, rent is paid to the property owner. The four corner tiles are instructional tiles. If a player lands on a corner tile, he or she immediately follows the instructions on that tile. All players start on the START tile and advance clockwise around the board based on the outcome of the spinner. The spinner has the numbers one through four indicating how many spaces a player moves. Which property is the most valuable to own (that is, which property do players end their turn on most often)? Send your answer to puzzlor@gmail.com by February 15th, 2010. The winner, chosen randomly from correct answers, will receive an "O R. The Science of Better" T-shirt.

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The blue Avenue is the most valuable property to own as charge has to be paid to the avenue if they enter the tile containing the avenue and the tile before it.

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